Tag: Smith-Corona

Our country…

I was not at the Capitol when things happened… I can only go by what I saw and heard and read; I am sadden by it. I would like to believe that the majority had good intent to have a peaceful expression of their views. However the actions of a few impacts impacts us all. I will not lump everyone into a single label because our future depends on seeing the value of character, truth and common ground.

I believe it is not weakness to strive to understand… I believe that respect for the flag is to strive to bridge this gap of what makes America great. For me it is not needing 20,000 in uniform to have a peaceful transition of power. Without understanding between us how can we return to peace?

1974 Galaxie XII

One word at a time…

On my bicycle I ride a mile… then another; then over time I have ridden 27,923 miles (and counting). Each word I type leads to a page and at 1,004 (and counting) I find that the adventure is not so much as what I say but in the thinking. Like striking of a flint the words spark new thoughts and images and creativity takes hold and newness creeps into a old brain and new growth occurs.

1974 Smith Corona Galaxie 12

The problem with logic…

My problem is that I keep following the logic of the words being used today…. this leads me to roads that seem full of distrust, division and hurt. My mind wants a path to communication, trust, uplift and hope. Yet when I think about what my thoughts say… it seems I am not just making an observation, but perhaps pulling back the curtain words hide. Or… I am just putting words on paper to see what prints!!

1974 Smith Corona Galaxie XII

It’s a mutt… a Corona-stein thing (love it)!

Thanks to the wonderful/in-depth information provided by Mr. Ed Neuert (Editor Etcetera) I have learned a great deal about my Corona 3.  He was even kind enough to add it to the comment section of my last post (thank you).  Ed requested more images… so I have add more below.

He wrote:

Yes, that’s a way low serial number on the frame. But it does look like an “improved” carriage assembly was added, as your machine has a fan-shaped ribbon color switch that dates from after the August 12, 1912 patent filing of U.S. Patent 1,121,044 (the original straight ribbon switch, which rode on the body of the machine instead of the carriage, was covered by U.S. Patent 1,121,042, filed on Feb. 6, 1912 — this patent also shows a “cut out” ribbon vibrator arm that was present on the two earliest machines I have, the ones with the straight switch).
Plus, your machine has a solid segment, instead of pivot-bars, so that’s a much later piece, and the actual key tops look like they came from later in the run (note the black-on-white shift keys, as opposed to the white-on-black shift keys of other early Coronas) .
It looks like someone inserted the carriage and guts of a newer Corona into the old frame of your machine. It is certainly possible to do this.  I did an experiment one day to see if the solid segment as it first existed from January to December of 1915 could be removed and installed in an earlier machine — it worked perfectly. (Don’t worry, I reversed the process and put the two machines back in proper chronologic shape afterwards.)…

1912? or something Corona 3
1912? or something Corona 3