I don't know what I'm more impressed by, the fact that you took that apart and put it back together, or the one who designed it in the first place. Amazing either way. 😄
As someone who has dabbled with fixing these old machines a time or two, I tip my hat to you. You have much more patience and skill than I do, and also do a much better job. Hoping to get back to working on these old things again someday myself.
A similar marvel to me is watching watch repairers disassemble an entire wristwatch or pocket watch and then (after cleaning, etc.) put all those parts back together and seeing the watch actually operate. It must take quite a lot of experience and aptitude to become versed in how such intricate mechanisms are built. Of course today we do have the advantage of easy photography and video so as to record how a mechanism went together.
I have an old type writer I would love to have restored some day, it was my great great aunt’s. It’s one of the first models to have a shift key, and each key is made of wood and ivory. Before I foolishly tried cleaning it, each screw was a different color. Some of its badly rusted, due to being left in a garage with an oil can leaking onto it. I’m impressed it still functions as well as it does. For me, seeing how beautifully your typewriter was restored gives me hope that the same can be done for mine! Thanks for sharing your beautiful craftsmanship!
What a fantastic restoration! Some time back I was given a Remington Portable very like this but I could not for the life of me work out how to get it going. Then I found the lever on the side......... After that I found Phoenix Typewriter's channel and have restored it and several more since then.
Very well done! That was a ton of little parts, and it's impressive you got them all together again as a unit that not only works, but works well. Nostalgic to hear the sound of typing again.
I must confess that I was at a loss to see how you were going to fix that worn platen and the small pressure rollers. The use of heat-shrink tubing was a great idea. Hats off!
My dad wrote on one of those. Mom had a Selectric II and NYC's largest tape-transcription service in what used to be our dining room (and is now a third bedroom in what used to be a two).
This video brought back some nice memories for me.I learned to type in high school in the mid-1960s. There were a few electric typewriters in class, but we all had to learn on the manual ones first. I loved everything about typing and the typewriter itself. We were taught to keep our machines clean using a product call SCAT-I’m sure it’s now on a hazardous material list. The first time I saw an IBM Sales Rep demonstrate their Selectric (revolving ball type mechanism) with the automatic correction key, I thought I had died and gone to heaven.
I 've never thought this machine it was there in1930s. It is amazing..no any part of it is using electric current..really it dazzles me. And for you congratulation for both of you..I was afraid you wo'nt refix it since it is very complex with countless small peices..so you've done an awesome restoration..thanksxxx.
Last night I watched a 1970's of "Columbo," where the lieutenant finally puts all the pieces together and catches the killer when he learns about the wonders of the electric typewriter and the disposable ribbon cartridge. I learned touch-typing in high school, and I still get nostalgic about them.
BRAVO! BRAVO! (Insert standing ovation) That was awesome. The idea you had to repair the rollers with heat shrink tubing - absolutely brilliant! From what it was to what it is now amazes me. Great work.
12 years ago I was coming home after a night of drinking with friends and sitting in a heap in the back alley I camp upon a heap of Underwood typewriters that was discarded and I took one home. After seeing your video I might end up trying to restore it
Many of the restoration videos I watch I am relatively sure I could at least put the item being worked on back together, this one however, I don't think so. That was scary watching it being dismantled. I wouldn't want to try to find someone who could accomplish what you guys just did. Nice job.
Its a complete mystery to me how you are able to take these intricate devices apart and then remember what all the pieces do and where they belong. Your videos àre amazing!
I have been a user of typewriters, but I never noticed how complex the mechanism is, I am surprised by the combinations of mechanical movements and also, from the explanations throughout the video, I realize that you have already disassembled many before others.🤗
What an amazing job - it was a stroke of genius to use heat shrink to re-cover the rubber parts. One of the best skills I have ever learnt is to touch type - got me through university. I learnt on a mechanical typewriter, so you really had to depress the keys. First thing we learnt was: qaz wsx edc rfv tgb, yhn ujm ik, ol. p;/ - had to type this over and over again to 'programme' our fingers to know where the keys were based on the home keys.
@@solitairepilot Short looks like they have a nice operation. They'd be worth getting a quote not only for this, but for idler wheels of phonographs being restored, if the restored apparatus is expected to have any kind of long service. I could see how type faces could eventually cut through the thin tubing. Use it once a year, no problem. Once a day, maybe it won't last long.
@@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648 Yeah, you wouldn’t believe the difference in type quality between a rock hard platen and a springy new one. It quite literally type’s like new
I have my grandfather’s Underwood that he used when he was a news reporter on the police beat in Los Angeles in the ‘20s. This has convinced me NOT to try to restore it! Beautiful job!
Very good work. It was a lot of fun to watch. A little tip. For typewriters, use very little oil or none at all. With a little time the oil combines with dust and then you have the fun of doing it all over again. Still, good work. It turned out well 👌
Maybe it took two people conferring on the project to increase the chances of getting it back together correctly? Honey, this part goes here. No, dear, it goes here. Ok, we'll flip a coin (or look at the video of the disassembly, lol).
Great video, nice to see restoration of some more complex mechanical equipment than the more common tools. "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" is not, however a pangram, it does not contain the letter "s". You need either "jumps" instead of "jumped", or "dogs" instead of "dog".
A couple things I would suggest. One, look at getting different sizes of toothbrushes and even a denture brush, to scrub off the dirt easier. Also, try and expand the range of screwdrivers so you have access to ones at least as wide as the screw. Using a screwdriver narrower than the screw inevitably raises burrs on the screw head (I’ve taken apart many things over the years).
Excellent restore! The use of heat shrink for the platen and rollers is a stroke of genius! I've restored a few typewriters and it's not for the faint of heart. The platen and rollers turning to black concrete was my biggest problem but I may revisit by restores and do the heat shrink method.
I agree, it seems a very versatile method of resurfacing them without having some very expensive custom service strip and re-mold them -- so long as the surface friction of the rewrapped parts is sufficient to hold the paper.
This is not restoration, this is high-quality maintenance. It is easy to restore high-quality things that are in excellent condition. But respect and like the author in any case..
Well done on a excellent job. Great job on the platen and rollers…usually they would be sent away for new rubber ….after years they go hard and makes holes in paper on letter 0… I never came across one like that unless they never sold in uk….ten years as a typewriter mechanic 1979 ~ 1989..
I like the way you did this that you didn’t overdo it like so many do. I do restorations the same way. I wonder what is the shrinking material you used? Is it normal heat shrink tube or some kind of rubber material?
Quem está restaurando essa máquina de escrever? Fascinante trabalho, mas as mãos denunciam, ora um homem, ora uma mulher o que torna o trabalho muito mais primoroso. Parabéns!
Fascinating to watch! Just think of the skills needed to invent and develop a typewriting machine. Btw, was it my imagination, or were the nail-polished hands ambidextrous? Very useful, with something this intricate. Watching this from recently unlocked Tāmaki Makarau/Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿. Merry Christmas to you guys 🎄, stay safe!
I recently fell into the rabbit hole of watching Restoration Videos, and I’m constantly fascinated by each ones approach. This was also fascinating! But why did you remove your nail polish?
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I don't know what I'm more impressed by, the fact that you took that apart and put it back together, or the one who designed it in the first place. Amazing either way. 😄
Idk why it’s so satisfying watching very intricately, precisely put together pieces fall apart at the slightest disruption.
As someone who has dabbled with fixing these old machines a time or two, I tip my hat to you. You have much more patience and skill than I do, and also do a much better job. Hoping to get back to working on these old things again someday myself.
A similar marvel to me is watching watch repairers disassemble an entire wristwatch or pocket watch and then (after cleaning, etc.) put all those parts back together and seeing the watch actually operate. It must take quite a lot of experience and aptitude to become versed in how such intricate mechanisms are built. Of course today we do have the advantage of easy photography and video so as to record how a mechanism went together.
Wow, Respect! This would be one of those things I take apart but can never get back together right!
the patience to do this work is astonishing, I have no idea how you remember how to put it back together!
I'd forgotten how much I love the mechanical chunk chunk chunk of a manual typewriter. Thanks!
I have an old type writer I would love to have restored some day, it was my great great aunt’s. It’s one of the first models to have a shift key, and each key is made of wood and ivory. Before I foolishly tried cleaning it, each screw was a different color. Some of its badly rusted, due to being left in a garage with an oil can leaking onto it. I’m impressed it still functions as well as it does. For me, seeing how beautifully your typewriter was restored gives me hope that the same can be done for mine! Thanks for sharing your beautiful craftsmanship!
What a fantastic restoration!
Some time back I was given a Remington Portable very like this but I could not for the life of me work out how to get it going. Then I found the lever on the side......... After that I found Phoenix Typewriter's channel and have restored it and several more since then.
What a weird thing not having lower case letters and that being still built in to it, kinda.
This reassembly would take me the rest of my life.
12:50 I was wondering how can the rollers be fixed.... Heat Shrink tubes😎 you are AWESOME. Great video 💙🐝💙
Your video gives me new courage to dis-assemble a 1953 Skyriter and give it a thorough cleaning. Thanks!
Very well done! That was a ton of little parts, and it's impressive you got them all together again as a unit that not only works, but works well. Nostalgic to hear the sound of typing again.
That sticking the screws in cardboard is a genius idea. Thank you, I definitively will use this.
Out of the many attributes of talent you possess, the one I most appreciate is your abiding patience.
I must confess that I was at a loss to see how you were going to fix that worn platen and the small pressure rollers. The use of heat-shrink tubing was a great idea. Hats off!
My dad wrote on one of those. Mom had a Selectric II and NYC's largest tape-transcription service in what used to be our dining room (and is now a third bedroom in what used to be a two).
This video brought back some nice memories for me.I learned to type in high school in the mid-1960s. There were a few electric typewriters in class, but we all had to learn on the manual ones first. I loved everything about typing and the typewriter itself. We were taught to keep our machines clean using a product call SCAT-I’m sure it’s now on a hazardous material list. The first time I saw an IBM Sales Rep demonstrate their Selectric (revolving ball type mechanism) with the automatic correction key, I thought I had died and gone to heaven.
God, that's 10 times more complicated than a Swiss watch! Bravo!
What a splendid job taking apart and restoring the typewriter to working order. Superbly done.
I 've never thought this machine it was there in1930s.
It is amazing..no any part of it is using electric current..really it dazzles me.
And for you congratulation for both of you..I was afraid you wo'nt refix it since it is very complex with countless small peices..so you've done an awesome restoration..thanksxxx.
Last night I watched a 1970's of "Columbo," where the lieutenant finally puts all the pieces together and catches the killer when he learns about the wonders of the electric typewriter and the disposable ribbon cartridge. I learned touch-typing in high school, and I still get nostalgic about them.
Great job. Love seeing these things brought back to work again.
Lots of parts to remember how they go together. I'm impressed. I'd never taken on such an intricate project.
Theres complex restores, and then complex restores . .this was a work of art.. keep up the work 👍
I found a repair shop in the lower east side in nyc that fixes typewriters, printers, fax machines. Etc. it was like walking into the 80’s
BRAVO! BRAVO! (Insert standing ovation) That was awesome. The idea you had to repair the rollers with heat shrink tubing - absolutely brilliant! From what it was to what it is now amazes me. Great work.
its amazing how they get all the parts back together
12 years ago I was coming home after a night of drinking with friends and sitting in a heap in the back alley I camp upon a heap of Underwood typewriters that was discarded and I took one home. After seeing your video I might end up trying to restore it
Many of the restoration videos I watch I am relatively sure I could at least put the item being worked on back together, this one however, I don't think so. That was scary watching it being dismantled. I wouldn't want to try to find someone who could accomplish what you guys just did. Nice job.
Agreed. I think some restorers record the dismantling so they can re-watch it and assemble it again😂😂😂
faster and prettier to see and hear than Windows and its peripherals..
Nice work..bravo 👍👍🇩🇿
Its a complete mystery to me how you are able to take these intricate devices apart and then remember what all the pieces do and where they belong. Your videos àre amazing!
Household items restoration is a niche sadly underrepresented on TH-cam. Hope you stay in this lane. Wonderful restoration job.
what an amazing invention. its sad that stuff these days is rarely as well made. great restore.
Well done! It's much more complicated than it might appear!
I have been a user of typewriters, but I never noticed how complex the mechanism is, I am surprised by the combinations of mechanical movements and also, from the explanations throughout the video, I realize that you have already disassembled many before others.🤗
That was amazing!! I love those old school type writers!
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With lots of hardwork, patience, skill and knowledge it needed lots of courage which you had. Need to appreciate it.
Amazing restoration
Incredible. Great work! I would never have been able to reassemble it properly.
Beautiful. Was wondering if any of the Restauration channels would ever dare to do a typewriter.
What an amazing job - it was a stroke of genius to use heat shrink to re-cover the rubber parts.
One of the best skills I have ever learnt is to touch type - got me through university. I learnt on a mechanical typewriter, so you really had to depress the keys. First thing we learnt was: qaz wsx edc rfv tgb, yhn ujm ik, ol. p;/ - had to type this over and over again to 'programme' our fingers to know where the keys were based on the home keys.
Thank you very much!
That's a cool story
Typists use heat shrink tubing on platens often to repair them, it’s better to have them sent off to JJ Short for professional rubber coating
@@solitairepilot Short looks like they have a nice operation. They'd be worth getting a quote not only for this, but for idler wheels of phonographs being restored, if the restored apparatus is expected to have any kind of long service. I could see how type faces could eventually cut through the thin tubing. Use it once a year, no problem. Once a day, maybe it won't last long.
@@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648 Yeah, you wouldn’t believe the difference in type quality between a rock hard platen and a springy new one. It quite literally type’s like new
11 stars! Fantastic! Cheers from Minnesota.
I have my grandfather’s Underwood that he used when he was a news reporter on the police beat in Los Angeles in the ‘20s. This has convinced me NOT to try to restore it! Beautiful job!
Sounds like a great piece of history, thanks for sharing!
If you're bold enough, you could video a disassembly. However, BACK UP THE VIDEO as soon as it is shot.
@@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648 great advice, but I’m not particularly bold right now!
Neat. Also yes, I knew typewriters were complicated but still, this is overwhelming.
@@Oldsmobile69 TONS of moving parts!
I saw a happy face at 22:48. This typewriter was so happy for being fixed! :)
Amazing. I have no idea how the engineer, inventor could figure out all those parts.
Very good work. It was a lot of fun to watch.
A little tip. For typewriters, use very little oil or none at all.
With a little time the oil combines with dust and then you have the fun of doing it all over again.
Still, good work. It turned out well 👌
Beautiful work! Well done and presented! Looking forward to more!
The best restoration i have seen in a long time!
Soo cool. Love the sound of the old typewriter
You made it look so easy and I know it can't be! Great restoration, thank you!
The magic of editing. lol
So cool. So many parts...mesmerizing.
Well done I think it is amazing to remember all the parts and where they belong
That was an ambitious project.
Love of machines or the patience of a saint or is it both? Great Job! ❤️
Maybe it took two people conferring on the project to increase the chances of getting it back together correctly? Honey, this part goes here. No, dear, it goes here. Ok, we'll flip a coin (or look at the video of the disassembly, lol).
Brilliant!!! 👍👍👍 Loved the heat shrink tube method. I will try it on my Remington.
Awesome restoration
Thank you!
Wow that was amazing 👍 so many pieces, glad it was you doing it and not me.
Thanks for sharing
Hahaha, glad you enjoyed it! Cheers!
Very cool guys.
Top job thinking outside the box with the small roller covering
What amazing work you have done. I could have never done it.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog... wonderful
What a fascinating piece of engineering. And an amazing restoration as well.
Great work and interesting video. Looking forward to see new ones!
Golly--all those parts! Great job!
Great video, nice to see restoration of some more complex mechanical equipment than the more common tools.
"the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" is not, however a pangram, it does not contain the letter "s". You need either "jumps" instead of "jumped", or "dogs" instead of "dog".
Glad you liked it!
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This restoration was amazing !!!
Great work!...The quick brown fox has jumped over the lazy dog.
Absolutely a stunning job!
Cleaned up real nice. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍🏻👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿
I mean really turned out beautiful.
Sending support, love, and kindness from Lexington MI USA.
Nice restoration of that 1930's Remington typewriter, nicely done.
I have an IBM Model 11 for you to do that..
I'm not sure it's a 11B or 11C
Very nice job young lady! I like it
A couple things I would suggest. One, look at getting different sizes of toothbrushes and even a denture brush, to scrub off the dirt easier. Also, try and expand the range of screwdrivers so you have access to ones at least as wide as the screw. Using a screwdriver narrower than the screw inevitably raises burrs on the screw head (I’ve taken apart many things over the years).
Awesome restoration!
Excellent restore! The use of heat shrink for the platen and rollers is a stroke of genius! I've restored a few typewriters and it's not for the faint of heart. The platen and rollers turning to black concrete was my biggest problem but I may revisit by restores and do the heat shrink method.
I agree, it seems a very versatile method of resurfacing them without having some very expensive custom service strip and re-mold them -- so long as the surface friction of the rewrapped parts is sufficient to hold the paper.
There is a company that remakes rubber parts. They may be too pricey.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!
Nicely done.
Thank you for another great video
Very well done
This is not restoration, this is high-quality maintenance. It is easy to restore high-quality things that are in excellent condition. But respect and like the author in any case..
Very impressive job. Well done you guys!
Thank you! Cheers!
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Omg pls I need more of this!!!
I love that sound...
Well done on a excellent job. Great job on the platen and rollers…usually they would be sent away for new rubber ….after years they go hard and makes holes in paper on letter 0…
I never came across one like that unless they never sold in uk….ten years as a typewriter mechanic 1979 ~ 1989..
Thank you very much! Means a lot coming from an expert :)
I like the way you did this that you didn’t overdo it like so many do. I do restorations the same way. I wonder what is the shrinking material you used? Is it normal heat shrink tube or some kind of rubber material?
Very good job
Very cool, nice job.
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Quem está restaurando essa máquina de escrever? Fascinante trabalho, mas as mãos denunciam, ora um homem, ora uma mulher o que torna o trabalho muito mais primoroso. Parabéns!
This is amazing and sooo satisfying - not a SINGLE detail was overlooked! How much would something like this cost (do you offer restoration services)?
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this was awesome.
AMAZING. so elaborate.
Fascinating to watch! Just think of the skills needed to invent and develop a typewriting machine. Btw, was it my imagination, or were the nail-polished hands ambidextrous? Very useful, with something this intricate. Watching this from recently unlocked Tāmaki Makarau/Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿. Merry Christmas to you guys 🎄, stay safe!
its called being a woman
Ooh... jinx! Well, not Tāmaki Makarau, but Aotearoa =)
Hope you guys over there get back to normal and the crazy lockdowns stop. Eerily reminiscent of WW2 and fascism.
If you think that’s crazy imagine the same type of mechanism but inside a mechanical calculator. That’s mind boggling to me.
Well done.
Great!! Maybe some letters needs a bit of adjustment for the spacing/alignement (such as "V", "D", "U", "L", but maybe others too). Great restoration!
I recently fell into the rabbit hole of watching Restoration Videos, and I’m constantly fascinated by each ones approach. This was also fascinating! But why did you remove your nail polish?
22:00 dang, there goes my weekend plans of drinking rust remover 😕