Hermes 3000s look almost as ungainly and cute skinned as they do whole.
I suggest that from now on everybody does their type samples according to keyboard layout.
(That title was contributed by the Royal...I really don't know. These Royals are so vain!)
As a sidenote, I will no longer be grading new typewriters. The numbers I was coming up with had no relevance, they were always clustering around 5 and that doesn't really give an accurate view of a typewriter if all of them are approximately 5 out of 6!
Sent from my Hermes 3000 and a mystery pica donor.
This Hermes types great with a carbon ribbon. I'm glad that it worked for you!
ReplyDeleteYes, I had noticed that you kept rating things 5 out of 6. You loved them all but still felt further perfection was possible ... just how I feel about many of my machines!
And I'm glad you planted the seed in my brain!
DeleteThankfully a daisy didn't sprout.
I've got part of my little guerrilla typewriter group spread out on the floor because that's what I do with them, and I could not for any sum of money choose an actual favourite typewriter, or for that matter, give any single one an accurate swath of ratings.
That is a beautiful typeface on your Hermes 3000! Congrats on the simple fix too, my SF took me something like 4 hours of manipulation before I got a hint of proper typing! XD
ReplyDeleteI've got it back together now, and it's working better than it ever had before. So technically, it's been 2 years between aquisition and actually being able to type with complete function. That's only due to laziness and lack of inclination, though!
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