September 2018 - Typewriter Fox Studios

80s Hair Band(ing)

September 23, 2018September 23, 2018 - by Typewriter Fox

Early last week I had a bit of rare free time before having to make a school pickup, so I stopped into one of the local thrift shops that tends to be on the upper end of the scale for the resale places around town. Over these past couple of years it has proven mildly positive as for typers. I think I got a really nice Remington Travel-Riter there and also a tailed Adler (that has since been re-homed to another writer, I am very happy to say), so I figured maybe I would get lucky. Tucked inside and made my way to the back of the store where bigger items, such as typers, are kept. And I saw a black, ballistic plastic case up on …

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Typer Brief: Case #2

September 17, 2018September 17, 2018 - by Typewriter Fox

Part the Second of mounting a formerly broken 1958 Royalite into a briefcase for covert typer operational needs….

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Typer Brief: Case #1

September 11, 2018September 17, 2018 - by Typewriter Fox

~Re-purposing with a Purpose, Royalite Style Part One~ Over the summer I managed to acquire, as part of a group typer purchase, the sad remains of a 1958 Royalite. The main body was dented and totally out of alignment. The ribbon cover was broken AND bent, so it was pretty much pointless to try and repair. The mechanics were sound, but cosmetically? It was in rough shape. I mean you can tell exactly how hard it fell and how it landed at some point in it’s journey to me. It had apparently belonged to the seller’s late wife and something about parting it out always bothered me. It just sort of seemed too…sad…to turn it into a pile of parts to use in other machines. …

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