I have to agree that this is a machine which invites you to use it. I have a No.6 which lives under a plastic cover in my typewriter room and each time I go there I feel this invitation and respond by typing my thoughts of the moment. Your video is great!
I had one of these in the late sixties as a teenager, bought from a very long-in-business dealer. Gave it away a couple of years later to a friend, boy, do I wish I still had it!
I just picked up this model at an antiques show here in Portland, Oregon. Thank you for such a wonderfully informative video. I look forward to getting to know this elegant beauty!
This video is very well done! I just found one of these locally and am hoping to purchase it. If so, I may ask for a hint or two, since I'm sure it will need some work. Thank you for sharing this.
@@robertorlo you should check out @thevintagetype4358 here on UA-cam then. There is no source more complete for Oliver typewriters than their channel 🤩
It will take me more than 30 hours to do up my rathertatty Oliver 9 but I'm looking forward to getting started on it soon. As you say it is a fascinating machine.
It is worth the time, for sure! I mostly enjoyed working on it. From talking with other owners, the screws are known for rusting a bit so they often freeze. Penetrating oil is your friend on this. Go over the screws with some liquid wrench or similar the day before you want to start working on it :)
I have this very machine. It operates well, but needs cleaning / polishing. How did you polish the chrome (nickel)? cover over the arches and the pencil holder? I'm thinking that regular auto polish will work on the green body. Thank you!
I really like the look of the Oliver I just don't like how it's so not evenly typed compared to the other ones is it an easy fix or is that just pretty common with the oliver. And if it is. Is there a similar look to the Oliver that doesn't have this issue
Thank you :) The machine was posted on a local classifieds webpage from a seller who lived a good ways into the mountains. I do not know how common The Oliver was in Norway at the time. I know they were in use. There exists a very old photo of a group of men disposing of a carriage full of typewriters in the west coast of Norway around the 30s where at least one Oliver can be spotted in the pile. So my machine, and that picture together proves that they did exist, but the fact that they threw it into the sea tells us it wasn't exactly valued. Who knows how many were simply discarded and who many were preserved? Hard to say for sure how many today lie around in people's homes, attics and cellars.
@@Retro-Type Dang, I didn't know businesses were as wasteful back then as they are today. And I see a lot of the machines they are throwing in the lake are valuable to collectors today, olivers, yosts, remington upstrikes, smith premiers, bar locks.
I have to agree that this is a machine which invites you to use it. I have a No.6 which lives under a plastic cover in my typewriter room and each time I go there I feel this invitation and respond by typing my thoughts of the moment. Your video is great!
I had one of these in the late sixties as a teenager, bought from a very long-in-business dealer. Gave it away a couple of years later to a friend, boy, do I wish I still had it!
Truly an interesting & unique typewriter that is still fun to use today!
Thanks
More videos, please!
Thanks for sharing.
I just picked up this model at an antiques show here in Portland, Oregon. Thank you for such a wonderfully informative video. I look forward to getting to know this elegant beauty!
Beautiful!
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This video is very well done! I just found one of these locally and am hoping to purchase it. If so, I may ask for a hint or two, since I'm sure it will need some work. Thank you for sharing this.
@@robertorlo you should check out @thevintagetype4358 here on UA-cam then. There is no source more complete for Oliver typewriters than their channel 🤩
It will take me more than 30 hours to do up my rathertatty Oliver 9 but I'm looking forward to getting started on it soon. As you say it is a fascinating machine.
It is worth the time, for sure! I mostly enjoyed working on it. From talking with other owners, the screws are known for rusting a bit so they often freeze. Penetrating oil is your friend on this. Go over the screws with some liquid wrench or similar the day before you want to start working on it :)
I love your Video! This is amazing Thanks so much!
I have this very machine. It operates well, but needs cleaning / polishing. How did you polish the chrome (nickel)? cover over the arches and the pencil holder? I'm thinking that regular auto polish will work on the green body. Thank you!
I used a product called chrome polish for those parts, but I think you might get some good results with even normal auto polish too actually.
@@Retro-Type Thank you!
I really like the look of the Oliver I just don't like how it's so not evenly typed compared to the other ones is it an easy fix or is that just pretty common with the oliver. And if it is.
Is there a similar look to the Oliver that doesn't have this issue
Very enjoyable video; well done! Where did you manage to find an Oliver in Norway, and were they common there in their day?
Thank you :) The machine was posted on a local classifieds webpage from a seller who lived a good ways into the mountains. I do not know how common The Oliver was in Norway at the time. I know they were in use. There exists a very old photo of a group of men disposing of a carriage full of typewriters in the west coast of Norway around the 30s where at least one Oliver can be spotted in the pile. So my machine, and that picture together proves that they did exist, but the fact that they threw it into the sea tells us it wasn't exactly valued. Who knows how many were simply discarded and who many were preserved? Hard to say for sure how many today lie around in people's homes, attics and cellars.
@@Retro-Type I'm interested to see this photo.
@@sleeplessengineer1450 it is stored in the University of Bergen's online archives, here: marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-kk-n-324-037.html
@@Retro-Type Dang, I didn't know businesses were as wasteful back then as they are today. And I see a lot of the machines they are throwing in the lake are valuable to collectors today, olivers, yosts, remington upstrikes, smith premiers, bar locks.
@@Retro-Type Someone should go magnet fishing there!
where do I get a 2 color ribbon?
See question 1 in this FAQ. It has just about all the information you could need on the matter: site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-faq.html
I have one, it works fine,