Typewriters at the SFO Museum

I was contacted by the SFO Museum because they wanted to add some color to the mid-century section of their upcoming typewriter display (May 2017 to January 2018 in Terminal 2, if you're curious). They chose these four, along with two change-a-type kits.

At the end of last month, Daniel and Alisa made the drive from San Francisco to pick them up. We'd discussed by email the possibility of including my Moskva 4 in the international display as well, but space constraints prevented it.

But, after showing it to them, we decided I'd loan it to them and they'd try to fit it in anyway! Fingers crossed the space can be found for it! Many years ago (way before I started this blog) I'd had the idea to set up a typewriter display in my local library, but it never materialized. So I'm glad to finally be able to do something like this.

Final calendar pre-orders / Case adjustment

Underwood case adjustment wrench and three hooks

Spanner screwdriver

Brad's Erika 9

Erika case adjustment screw

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Rotary phones and online typewriter buying guides

This was my Torpedo (Harrods) 17. The shadows quiz game would contain both very common and less common models, hopefully making it a challenging game that still gives some satisfaction!

The phone even came to me from Michigan! 

Here's where I found:

rotary phone number card blanks

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Adjusting an Everest K2 / Lemon ice cream

1956 Everest Jolson 549429

carriage release adjustment ^

vertical alignment adjustment ^

vertical alignment adjustment ^

linespacing adjustment ^

Looking at it up close, the difference in weight can be seen, but the shorter serifs are a much more obvious difference between the W and the rest of the typeface.

No idea what I'm going to do with this case…I'm tempted to see what I can do with duck tape. XD

original Everest Jolson typecast

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1991 subtitled an end-time

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Another look at the Everest Jolson

Basically, the ideal situation would be increase the height of part A, but that is also the hardest thing to get to. The platen can't be easily removed to access these parts (the right knob unscrews, but the platen won't come out without disassembling the sides of the carriage) and adding height would be a pretty tedious thing to do. The other main thing would be to file down part D that ratchets the toothed wheel, but that wouldn't be following the original design. I don't want to make any mistakes since this is rare, but I also want to be able to type at full speed with it.

I have tried adjusting a couple of the little bits in the ratchet mechanism that can be adjusted, and they only help to make the linespacing work at 1 line sometimes, rather than a proper complete solution, so the only choice is A through D.

The photographs are actually pre-nameplate alteration, but light wasn't good enough to take a few more pictures tonight. I've cleaned out the little brown bit under the "t".

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Jolson Everest

1956 Everest Jolson 541450

Incidentally, this is my 299th post and this will be in my 100th typewriter database gallery. :)

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