[CW] CW MILLS (Typewriters) - A Great Site

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

I've bought typewriters off of eBay, only a Olympic SM3 Deluxe 1950s
portable which I always wanted, cocoa brown textured paint, better than the
white Olympic portable I had in the 1960s - it didn't type as well as this
old one which types nearly as well as a Office model.

I bought the portable before the typewriter collecting craze, I got it for
$5.00 in nearly new conditions (many portables were stored unused for years
in the buyer's closet, perhaps used once a year and disposed of upon the
owner's death) and the shipping (then) was $30, so I figured I got a deal.
I still use it several times a month to type letters as it's good exercise
for the fingers.

73
DR


On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 1:10 PM BURNS MARTIN JR <w4foa at comcast.net> wrote:

> Yes Richard, shipping would be cost prohibitive today and then it would
> probably arrive in kit form.  Only hope would be to find something at an
> antique store, or the like.
> Tony W4FOA
>
> > On June 8, 2020 at 10:56 AM Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     If you mean a mechanical office typewriter the prices below
> > might be for a completely restored, like new machine. No one
> > needs that but a collector. You can find much cheaper machines
> > even on ebay. Anyone who is serious should ask at the Typewriter
> > mailing list at:
> > https://groups.io/static/about   at the top click on find or
> > create a list
> >     The biggest problem is having machines shipped because they
> > are very delicate.
> >
> > On 6/8/2020 6:33 AM, Grant Youngman wrote:
> > > So much for the $5 deals.  A restored mill in good physical and
> working condition could easily set you back somewhere in the $500-1000
> range.
> > >
> > > Grant NQ5T
> > >
> > >> On Jun 8, 2020, at 9:16 AM, BURNS MARTIN JR <w4foa at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hey Joe,
> > >> Interesting.  Sure wish those 5 dollar deals were still around, hi.
> > >> One of our typewriter/TTY machine techs used Banana Oil to soften the
> platen rolls.  Just curious what you used?
> > >> 73
> > >> Tony W4FOA
> > >>
> > >>> On June 8, 2020 at 8:02 AM Joe Pontek Sr <v31jp1957 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Hello, all.
> > >>>
> > >>> Back when I was stationed at Andrew AFB, Washington, D.C.,
> > >>> President Washington's birthday was a big deal and many
> > >>> holiday sales about. I went to a store for typewriters and
> > >>> bouight an electric mill in good shape for $5.00 and the only
> > >>> thing needed might have been the platen roll as it was a bit
> > >>> hardened.  I did treat it and it worked great until one time
> > >>> when getting up and caught my belt on the typewriter table
> > >>> and sent it to the floor, thus breaking its cast frame.  I almost
> > >>> learned touch typing on it.  As I was a TTY technician, all caps
> > >>> were normal to me.  I would love to have another one.  My
> > >>> 12 year old can touch type at 53 WPM, now to teach him
> > >>> and his brother the code.
> > >>>
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