Showing posts with label vintage typewriters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage typewriters. Show all posts

Thursday 17 December 2015

Alternative spools for vintage typewriters


Managed to open up the top and inspect the ribbons on the Olympia SM 9 and Traveller de Luxe typewriters. Ribbons were either dry as a leaf or about to run out very soon. How else would I have gotten them for a song ?

It was either I depend on messy carbon paper or get new ribbons .
Thus my quest began .



Wednesday 16 December 2015

Olivetti Lettera 32 - the cursive typewriter


How I managed to find this typewriter is one thing .
Sat on it for around one week before I posed the all important question to the seller.
" Is this a cursive typewriter ? "
When he said yes , I wasted no time in securing it .



Sunday 13 December 2015

Olympia Traveller de Luxe - my first vintage typewriter



 This typewriter below, is one of the reasons why I am willing to chat with any "ulat" or scalper who may be able to get me whatever it is that I am impatient to lay my hands on , almost instantly .
The general notion is never to talk to strangers but to me , hey , willing buyer , willing seller and these people are exactly the shortcut which I need . They're just trying to make a few bucks and they will go all out to assist you . Unless , you got yourself a trickster , which always presents a risk , in Malaysia , if they're local folks , out of 50 times maybe you will get one cheating case . Today marks my first time dealing with one in a flea market and I am so glad it turned out so well .

Though he had tailed me from an antique dealer , the instant he knew that I sensed him behind me , he opened his mouth and made the offer. He was eager to offload what he had . Revealed that he was formerly a printer technician .
 And it certainly helped that he looked like Donnie Yen with tatoos lol . I told him to show me the goods . Because he was so cooperative , we decided to wait 3 hours and meet up again with him closer to his home .