Showing posts with label Facit 1620. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facit 1620. Show all posts

4 Jul 2013

Olympia: 3 Blocks From Its Origin

1970 Olympia SM9 3931918





The script logo can be found hiding on the back. I wonder how it would look switched with the front one.

Amazingly, this has stayed in downtown Tacoma all of its life. It was sold a few blocks from where I live!



Sent marvelously from my new Olympia SM9

Notagain, I'm sure you've come across a typewriter from Allied Business Machines.

30 Jun 2013

Olli Folly?

1972 Olivetti Lettera 32 6391963







I could have made my title "Olivetti Lettera" 32 times, like for the Oliver #5, but that would be silly.

My only excuse for buying so many typewriters so fast was so that I could get a lot of common typewriters at decent prices so on future eBay ventures I could focus only on the more special ones.

Composed with my Olivetti Lettera 32

5 Jun 2013

Typosphere III (Poster 4)

Typosphere III featuring Facit 1620

I'm not sure what images this conjures in my mind. I'm thinking of both evil computers and green monsters?

4 Jun 2013

Mystery Solved! The Frozen Facit (Starring Facit 1620)

1970s Facit 1620 P620612














Ribbon Advance: Use it just at the tip

Ribbon Advance: Apply it at the point where the pin meets the disk. It will seep through.

Escapement wheel: Remove the type guide.
Escapement wheel: Apply right in between it and the carriage rail above.

Escapement wheel: Remove the perforated bottom cover.

Escapement wheel: Apply a generous amount inside the hole in the wheel.


I'm really hoping this can become a significant contribution for the good of all Facits, especially because as I've found it might actually happen to you after you've owned one for a while.

Typed rather triumphantly on my new Facit 1620.

*Ignore that I accidentally post-dated this... haha