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198X Olivetti Lettera 36 C Serial # 191358 198X Olivetti Lettera 36 C typewriter, Serial # 191358 Giacinto Boccia's 198X Olivetti Lettera 36 C typewriter. 2023-07-17 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Giacinto Boccia: 198X Olivetti Lettera 36 C Serial # 191358 This is a nice electric machine, it has quite a low profile and writes nicely, it does makes some noise, especially the belt and pulleys.
The striking force comes from a spring that gets loaded and released by the electric mechanism, thus the impression force is set by preloading said spring, while other machines change the speed of the electric part.
The correcting mechanism is quite neat, a single key sends the marriage one stop back, sets the next strike to be on the cover-up ribbon and disables the escapement, you then type the character that you want to erase and right after the new one (that will be printed with the normal color). This means that correcting a single letter mistake is very fast.
On my machine, the margin release allows only one more character, but it could be a malfunction.
I saw a "73" date on one of the castings, but the instruction manual is from 1980, so the machine must be from the 80s.

198X Olivetti Lettera 36 C #191358

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Giacinto Boccia (Gianfilippo96)
Created: 07-17-2023 at 02:54PM
Last Edit: 07-17-2023 at 03:09PM

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This is a nice electric machine, it has quite a low profile and writes nicely, it does makes some noise, especially the belt and pulleys.
The striking force comes from a spring that gets loaded and released by the electric mechanism, thus the impression force is set by preloading said spring, while other machines change the speed of the electric part.
The correcting mechanism is quite neat, a single key sends the marriage one stop back, sets the next strike to be on the cover-up ribbon and disables the escapement, you then type the character that you want to erase and right after the new one (that will be printed with the normal color). This means that correcting a single letter mistake is very fast.
On my machine, the margin release allows only one more character, but it could be a malfunction.
I saw a "73" date on one of the castings, but the instruction manual is from 1980, so the machine must be from the 80s.

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This date (73) must refer to the construction of the mold.
This date (73) must refer to the construction of the mold.

As stated above, this date (1973), is wrong (the manual is from 1980).
As stated above, this date (1973), is wrong (the manual is from 1980).

Hunter: Giacinto Boccia (Gianfilippo96)

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