It All Ends Tomorrow

Extra Typewriter

This was my first Hermes 3000 Techno Pica typewriter

After I posted this I see I scanned the typecast in B & W.  Sorry

Left replacement knob

Right replacement knob

Ribbon selector detent assembly

Ribbon color selector linkage

The Hermes could use a cleaning.  It works fine without the card guide, but without the guard it is impossible to align a line of type to correct.  It is also difficult to correctly align the paper, but can be done by aligning the ends.


The SCM below never really made it into my collection.  It is a fine typer and fairly clean.  The left carriage release plastic lever is missing.  Other than that it is complete and works fine.  I like this machine, but it is one too many so it goes to ????  I want to make room for older typewriters and those that are on my wish list like a Mill.

This SCM Sterling is presently on its way to a typosphereian

 The photo was taken in my garage so the machine looks more blue than its true grey color.

and this one is the next one I am thinking of passing on.

This makes Hermes 3000 Number 5 and Techno Number 2

A Carbon Ribbon and Techno Pica

Notice that this Hermes does not have a card guide.  If anyone has one as a spare part or a non working 3000 for parts please let me know.  I am looking for knobs, a card guide and a platen.

Typewriter Babble

Just noticed I mis-spelled hand.

Blog post without photos?  I thought I'd include a few photos of the canals that flow through the neighborhood.  Now es ist zeit Bier und eine Bratwurst oder zwei.  Nicht Deutsch, Pennsylvania Dutch (if I remembered how to write in it).

Facit TP1 Techno Pica

This is a card that can stand for practice.

The center type slugs

This is the mystery CSA typeface from my earlier post (4 Feb.) showing type slugs only.  Typing action is perhaps the smoothest of all of my machines so far.  This has the kind of feel that I could probably use all day and not tire.  It has touch control, a tabulator, 1, 2, and 3 line spacing as well as variable.  The platen and pressure rollers are in very good condition and if it were not for the covering in nicotine stains and smoke stink this machine would have been posted several weeks ago.  This may turn out to be my favorite machine.  I plan on putting one of my treated ribbons in it.

I did not get the hood for the keys or the cover, but I did get the manual and a typing chart with the typewriter.  The typing chart is posted at its original size if you click and save the image to have one of your own.

Robert Messenger has much more detail on this fine and somewhat rare (at least what I can find, not much on line and very few on Ebay or anywhere else) in the USA (and maybe elsewhere).

Here is a link to Robert's review of the TP1:
The Prince of Typewriters

Hermes 3000 Techno Pica

Typo 1, od, should be of. Typo 2 vit should be bit

Setag Techno Pica

The Mysterious Hermes 3000 Techno Pica

The Hermes 3000 Typewriter with Techno Pica is not really mysterious.  I am just not posting a picture of it at the moment.