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

[Richard Knoppow]

    The SM-3 is an interesting machine. It has cushions on each 
key. Mine is Cream and Burgandy, very elegant. I find the shift 
is hard and will eventually replace the counter springs with 
stronger ones. Its in a wedge shaped case made of wood but 
painted to look like aluminum.
    I have a couple of later Olympia portables, the fanciest is 
an SM-9 Deluxe, which has all office machine functions. I got all 
of mine at local swap meets. My favorite portable for feel is a 
Smith-Corona Silent. This is not a silent machine in the sense 
that Remington and Underwood silent machines with special type 
movement are but probably a bit less noisy than most. Just in 
case aunt Gertrude is sitting up at night typing out her novel.

On 6/8/2020 10:58 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> 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
>

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Richard Knoppow
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