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SUPERDUPER MANUAL FULL
I am small and unassuming, but fast and driven by vast ambition, full of powerful hidden talents. I become Super Duper: I am a S-C Skyriter with racing stripes. I had 24 hours to get this typewriter back together. I figured I had about 24 hours after dismantling before the parts became vague and forgettable. I knew I must work quickly to get it back together. Reducing a typewriter to Parts in a Box brings shame onto your entire family. So here’s The Rule: you cannot let a dismantled typewriter become Parts in a Box. They had to be eased off carefully so I didn’t damage the teeny spools. I found this video from Duane at Phoenix Typewriter very helpful in dealing with this plunger assembly:Ĭould not get the spools off easily – they were jammed on the wrong way.
SUPERDUPER MANUAL PDF
I downloaded the Smith-Corona 6YC Series Typewriter Repair Manual in PDF format for diagrams and service reference material:Īnd after removing the return lever, right platen knob, and the platen, I got to this point. Yes you can swap the long return lever from a Corsair for the vestigal return arm of your early Skyriter! This post came in handy during dismantling: I vaguely recalled a blog post by Ted Munk about replacing a teeny return lever on a Skyriter with a larger one from a Corsair. To familiarize myself with the typewriter functions, I downloaded a Super-G typewriter users manual from Richard Polt’s manual archive: I assumed that the pieces inside were all bent, but I couldn’t see anything. With a bent return lever mechanism, there was no communication with the platen, so it wasn’t line spacing. The racing stripes on the Super-G are just super excellent-so much classier than painted flames. It was in pretty good shape except the return lever problem, a bent ribbon vibrator, jammed-on spools, gummy typebars and escapement.
SUPERDUPER MANUAL SERIAL NUMBER
The Super-G I got from Tim is from 1974 by serial number 7YP124855 (7YP Series 1) This little racing Skyriter, this Formula One Corsair was designed by automotive designers Tjaarda and de Tomaso of Carrozzeria Ghia SpA. It’s a good ole British-made Skyriter in a sleek Italian-style shell: I was thinking maybe the Super-G was an Olivetti.
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Tim, the guy who was giving away the Super-G, runs a bike shop near my place.Īnders Jensen, Copyrighted free use, via Wikimedia Commons As an author, I am very powerful.Īnyhow, in recognition of my excellent ahead-of-schedule novel-writing progress, I am rewarding myself with a special treat: a broken typewriter. I am getting a little concerned by the body count. I keep killing off major characters because people died a lot in the old days. There’s a whole lot of tragedy and death in my novel too. Here is a sample love scene in the current draft: I don’t know if I have the necessary mettle required for romance writing. I have the first draft completed, and gosh, it’s funny. I had initially described my novel as a historical romance, but I think it’s more of a historical comedy. I’m making good progress on the Great American Novel, so this typewriter was a nice reward for my hard work. The poster was having trouble finding time to work on a distressed S-C Super-G, so he was giving it away: I’m a Facebook lurker, and a recent post on the Facebook Mid-Atlantic Typewriter Collectors Group caught my attention.
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