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| 1939 Rheinmetall Portable 232114 |
*For those who don't know, DHL charges for international shipping one a flat rate for any package between 5-10kg, and another rate for 10-20kg packages. This happened to be 11kg, and therefore cost 10€ more.
The little indicator point on the ribbon color selector is missing on mine, for some reason. It doesn't negatively affect the function, other than not indicating what is currently selected.
As for what we did in some of the 10 days of absence, that will be a story for another time.
Sent from my new Rheinmetall Portable
Very beautiful! Love the animated GIFs too (:
ReplyDeleteThey're always fun to make, too.
DeleteGorgeous looking machine. Very nice. GIF is great too. Ahhh more EBay.de love?
ReplyDeleteMore along the lines of your latest post; on the contrary, I've actually managed to slow down my typewriter buying quite a lot recently, which is a good thing because I'm still dealing with a space issue. XD
DeleteI know that problem all to well.
DeleteOccasionally these turn up here locally on the local 'ebay', though never in such a pristine condition. Have been mostly ignoring these, maybe wrongly... This does look 'quietly confident of its solid engineering'.
ReplyDeleteWunderschön :)
Another splendid machine, splendidly documented. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI try my best!
DeleteAnother lesson learned! Those GIF's sure are nice. And the machine... PERFECT!
ReplyDeleteGood to know you're committing my teachings to memory! ;p
DeleteYou can expect GIFs to show up more often on my posts from now on, whenever I have an excuse to make one I will. :D
I love the understated styling of this generation of machines. Great post and awesome GIFs!
ReplyDeleteNick, your instructions worked well for removing the carriage, so thanks so much for posting. Having experience with Rheinmetalls, I'm hoping you can help me... I acquired a Rhenmetall that belonged to my grandfather. Apparently he 'liberated' it from Germany when he was there during the war. It is mechanically in decent shape, and very cool with the umlauts and some special German symbols, but it is in desperate need of new feed rollers and a platen recovering. Do do this, I have to get the platen and feed rollers off, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the platen off. Do you know how to do this? [I may have posted this question twice, not sure. My first is not showing up, but maybe it needs approval. If so, just pick whichever post you want and discard the duplicate.] thanks! Leigh
ReplyDeleteI've never had to remove the platen from a Rheinmetall, but I bet the first step would be to remove the panels on each end of the carriage (if yours is like this one).
DeleteI was leery of doing that, as all sorts of other things seem to be attached to those plates. At any rate, I took it down to Richard Polt, and he managed to figure out that you twist the platen knob to unscrew it. He said it took a lot of force. Just posting here in case anyone else ever needs to know. :)
DeleteLOL, I actually found the Facebook thread where you were all discussing this. Yes, that's the same typewriter!
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