Three things: 1) that is a beautiful and well designed machine. Thanks for sharing it. 2) Fascinating things you just taught me which I never knew, such as about the cause of damage to the center of the type slugs and how to identify a "virgin" machine. Plus 3) that first pangram you typed is new to me and might be my new favorite. Well done!
Bonjour! You are very talented as this machine looks very well restored! Thanks to you, I learned that this model has half line spacing. Not very common on a US model of that vintage. Could you tell me if the cork platen is made from thin layers wrapped around the core or is it one or two solid pieces? Merci! Daniel
Bonjour Daniel! Since I'm unable to post pictures in the comments of videos (or I haven't figure out how to that yet), I made a post on this channel (you should be able to find it in the "community" section). It's actually a thick single layer wrapped around the core. Au revoir!
Helloo ! I’m French, and I’ve a Remington rend ≈1950’s . I don’t know, and I don’t understand who use the touch «1 » « 10 » « 100 » « 1/T » « 10/T » « 100/T » can u help me pelaase ?! I can give my e-mail ! Thx
Bonjour! I probably need to make a video on "how to use a decimal tabulator" at some point, but I'll try to explain below. So, if you use a tabulator, your carriage moves to a certain spot. But if you are using it to make a table with numbers, you'll want to align all your 1's, 10's, 100's, ... to the right. Like so: Item Cost Item A 10 Item B 2105 Item C 2 Total 2117 (I hope the formatting of this example survives, I typed this on a computer, it might turn to "un bordel de merde" on mobile) That's where the decimal tabulator comes in. You set the position of your tab stop on the units (0, 5, 2, and 7 in the example above). You type "Item A". Instead of using the tabulator and backspace one position to type "10", you hit the "10" button, and the carriage will stop where you are supposed to type "1", so you don't need to backspace. For the next line, after typing "Item B", you hit the "1000" button of the decimal tabulator, and the carriage will stop where you need to start typing "2" (followed by 1, 0, 5). The dots on the decimal tabulator bar on this particular machine are decimal separators. So the normal tab stop is the first "." A full number might be "1,234,567.00. The use of a comma for grouping is the American style, I prefer to use spaces to avoid anyone misinterpreting where the units stop (e.g. 1 234 567.00). Cordialement, Slug Life
Excellent restoration of a beautiful machine, well done!
Thank you so much!
Three things: 1) that is a beautiful and well designed machine. Thanks for sharing it. 2) Fascinating things you just taught me which I never knew, such as about the cause of damage to the center of the type slugs and how to identify a "virgin" machine. Plus 3) that first pangram you typed is new to me and might be my new favorite.
Well done!
Thanks! I'm happy you liked it! That pangram became my favorite as well as soon as I encountered it. Way more fun than dogs, foxes or sphinxes =D
Wish Remington had made my Quiet-Riter have an easily removable platen like that.
Yeah. Some typewriters are put together with easy maintenance in mind, some by engineers on acid...
Bonjour! You are very talented as this machine looks very well restored!
Thanks to you, I learned that this model has half line spacing. Not very common on a US model of that vintage.
Could you tell me if the cork platen is made from thin layers wrapped around the core or is it one or two solid pieces? Merci!
Daniel
Bonjour Daniel!
Since I'm unable to post pictures in the comments of videos (or I haven't figure out how to that yet), I made a post on this channel (you should be able to find it in the "community" section). It's actually a thick single layer wrapped around the core.
Au revoir!
Very shiny! (:
That's a massive compliment coming from you! Thanks!
How's that type so clean, the imprint looks like carbon
Cleaned slugs and a silk ribbon. And carbon looks even more crisp than that. Maybe the video resolution is playing tricks on you =)
Helloo ! I’m French, and I’ve a Remington rend ≈1950’s . I don’t know, and I don’t understand who use the touch «1 » « 10 » « 100 » « 1/T » « 10/T » « 100/T » can u help me pelaase ?! I can give my e-mail ! Thx
Bonjour!
I probably need to make a video on "how to use a decimal tabulator" at some point, but I'll try to explain below.
So, if you use a tabulator, your carriage moves to a certain spot. But if you are using it to make a table with numbers, you'll want to align all your 1's, 10's, 100's, ... to the right. Like so:
Item Cost
Item A 10
Item B 2105
Item C 2
Total 2117
(I hope the formatting of this example survives, I typed this on a computer, it might turn to "un bordel de merde" on mobile)
That's where the decimal tabulator comes in. You set the position of your tab stop on the units (0, 5, 2, and 7 in the example above). You type "Item A".
Instead of using the tabulator and backspace one position to type "10", you hit the "10" button, and the carriage will stop where you are supposed to type "1", so you don't need to backspace. For the next line, after typing "Item B", you hit the "1000" button of the decimal tabulator, and the carriage will stop where you need to start typing "2" (followed by 1, 0, 5).
The dots on the decimal tabulator bar on this particular machine are decimal separators. So the normal tab stop is the first "." A full number might be "1,234,567.00. The use of a comma for grouping is the American style, I prefer to use spaces to avoid anyone misinterpreting where the units stop (e.g. 1 234 567.00).
Cordialement,
Slug Life