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Sorry for my typos once again. As I typed I got more into my music.
I added more vinyl to my collection over the past week or two. It all started when I found some U.S. Army Band LPs that were unopened and they were from when my Uncle was the assistant conductor. I played them this morning.
Then as my usual self changed to the Pipes which eventually took me to Circa Paleo and the Hot Violinist. I normally play Bluegrass, but today I gravitated to a different genre. The day will probably finish with listening to one of my old stations where I worked that still airs Bluegrass or I'll stream German Volksmusik.
I'd love to attend a concert with only The Hot Violinist and Mairead Nesbitt of Celtec Women & Charlie Daniels. They are 3 of the best ever fiddlers I've ever heard. I had a friend in the Opry who was really good, but I doubt his playing comes close to these three.
No time to get the Nikkormat or any of my cameras out yet even though the weather is great. (77F/25C, sunny & clear) I have to get the taxes finished and do more work on our move. Hopefully we will be able to find a house and move by summer.
Here is a link to the Calumet post on My Vintage Cameras.
And this is the Facit spring:
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| Same spring on TP1 and the left is different from the right as they are wound 180 deg. from each other. They break very very very easily when trying to remove them -- even with small tweezers. |
Well, this is also the last day of Bike Week. Next week will be much less traffic and no traffic jams and frequent accidents. Too many people who drive cars do not watch for motorcycles.
I think you have your work cut out for you there. Best of luck.
ReplyDeleteAs for the Windowsification of the Linux apps, it was bound to happen. I stopped using GIMP a while ago, and I think I have saved my sanity for doing so.
A lot can happen during 20 years so that SM7 user could have sprayed it with WD40 at some point - just purely out of lack of knowledge and wanting to save a bit on the service grabbing the first thing that came to hand. You know: "Hey! How hard applying some grease on the machine can be?" attitude. The internet resources on typewriter maintenance might have not be so vast at that point in time as they are now :)
ReplyDeleteNo internet back then, but I bet the 'it just needs a bit of oil' has been around since the first typewriter and will be with us until the end of time. Anyone could spray this or any machine with who knows what liquid. Way too many people think WD40 is a lubricant. LPS is the lubricant company. I have seen typewriter repair people use WD40 on the segment and all over the inside of typewriters in several videos posted on line too.
DeleteIn my first year of serious typewriter collecting I have read many posts on the horrors of WD-40. I have not seen any, though, that reference direct experience. So it seems reasonable to suspect that the evils of WD-40 is one of those false truths that have become ingrained in the culture through repetition, rather than empirical evidence. This is the first post I've seen that mentions direct experience with its effects, and yet I'm curious how you know that the messed up segment resulted from its use. I've found WD-40 to be hugely useful in other applications, such as restoring tools inadvertently left out in the rain. I wouldn't want to initiate one of those horrible "Canon vs. Nikon" flameouts within the otherwise mellow Typosphere, but it would be very interesting to see any direct experience with WD-40 shared.
ReplyDeleteI use WD-40 to coat tools and on my drill press support column. The resulting lacquer hardness from a few years of it being on the drill press matches what I find on typewriters, hard tough lacquer. That I believe is what it would and does do when sprayed on connectors after installation, displaces moisture and coats the surfaces. At AMP we has our own proprietary conformal coatings, but we had contractors who used WD-40 (for its intended use).
DeleteThat's interesting about the lacquer-like coating. Certainly not a good thing to happen to a segment. Thanks, Bill.
DeleteWe seem to have similar taste in music!
ReplyDeleteYou sure do have your work cut out for you, but what enjoyable work it shall be! Every hour spent in a workshop breathing in the sweet scent of WD-40 (or other similar petroleum-like smells) is hours well spent
ReplyDeleteBill, is the broken spring the little circular piece of metal joining two parts at the near center of the picture, right below the ribbon spool shaft? Could it be that the spring activates the automatic ribbon reverse mechanism? You know, when the spool empties the ribbon pulling from it would cause a slight tension on the spring, which would thus actuate the ribbon reverse? This would require a spring light enough to be triggered with what little pressure the ribbon could exert on it...
ReplyDeleteMiguel, yes, it is the small semi-circular spring in the front. It seems to put just enought pressure on the mechanism to cause it to toggle. Seems to work fine without it as the ribbon guide is what shifts the direction and will engage / disengage the ratchet. The springs are very thin and fragile. I did not examine any under a microscope yet, but I plan to do that as I beleive the fragility comes from use over the years creating a flat spot where the spriing rubs the heavier metal which would cause it to break very easily. The spring requires very very little pressure to toggle.
DeleteYes, indeedy, you have quite a bit going on, and I wonder how you juggle it all. Mariead and Charlie––toot their horns, ahem, their fiddles. Still on the hunt for someone who repairs typewriters as knowledgeably as you. A Remington Quietriter Eleven was worked on, but still leaves a bit to be desired; S-C Classic Twelve probably needs cleaning/oiling/tweaking/new ribbon, and a gifted old Royal Arrow feels so frail to the touch, I'm not of doing anything for or to it, and that's the one that's the granddaddy of them all. So if you plan to move to SE FL, let me know!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the time you give to your blog. I go to older ones periodically, but don't leave comments as I'm not sure you'd know I stopped for a visit.
Enjoyed the link to Vintage Cameras Bill thanks.. must admit I have always been attracted to old things also.. My brother in law uses Gimp he really seems to like it.. Me, I use the simplest app possible Picasa :) you are having a busy time but it sounds like there have been many highlights along the way, nice find with the vinyls, enjoy the listening and happy house hunting.
ReplyDeleteI used to work for a penny-pinching charity and found myself shipping CDs with GIMP and installation instructions to colleagues for making the most of their photos or even just accurate resizing for the web. Having luxuriated in Photoshop since the year dot, I did 'feel their pain'. It is good that now there are plenty of ways to process an image which aren't as cumbersome and freely available.
ReplyDeleteI used Photoshop at work, but still find myself gravating to GIMP. It can be confusing at first, but I think it is much more flexible than PS since it does not do as much automatically in the background.
DeleteGimp does quite good with RAW too. Many of the others do not handle RAW as well.