Type OH! The manual typewriter experience…

One year ago… I thought about buying a manual typewriter.  In March of 2012 I finally did.  By the end of March I started Blogging…

Before I sat down behind the keyboard of my Olympia I was unable to write with the same joy or passion I had in High School or College.  Time seemed to have robbed me of that simple pleasure of putting words together.  This changed when I pressed the key of a manual typewriter for the first time in three decades.

I must have broken through my writer block since I am using a computer keypad to augment my typecast… but I will not be silly enough to walk away from the source of my creativity because the stream of verbage flows once more.  There are so many more typewriters waiting to be touched… and words to appear on pages like magic.

So lets begin with my continued affair with the 1923 3-Bank Underwood Portable.

     First let me say that it did not occur to me to take pictures while I had the base removed from the Underwood.  It was early in the morning and I was amazed at the amount of dust that was inside of the machine (enough to make a mouse very happy).  I was in a state of panic when I discovered that my first efforts to correct problems made things worse.  

     One good thing about buying from a charity is that the people who profit from the sale deserve to. I have no feelings of being ripped off… (it was a donated item… duh!) the price was cheap… the machine functions… looks good and in time I will learn enough to fix it or have it fixed.  So it is win-win.  (Gerald)