Serial #: 1018162
Manufactured Sept 1917
My first client typewriter restoration. Details and photos coming soon.
Current stage: Cleaning
Disassembly notes
Small parts and screws (trailing number indicates slotted screw size)
A - black thick pan head screw - 150-3
B - large silver pan head short screw - 300-2
C - large silver pan head short small diameter screw - 210-2
D - small silver pan head screw - 210-2
E - silver thick pan head screw - 180-2
F - large silver thick pan head shoulder bolt - 240-2
G - silver extra long set screw - 150-2
H - small silver pan head screw - 150-2
I - large black thick pan head screw - 240-4
J - black C- 210-2
K - large diameter long thick head silver screw - 240-5
L - large long silver pan head screw, ~half threaded - 300-2
M - L shaped silver bracket
N - large longish silver pan head screw, ~3/4 threaded - 300-2
O - black B - 300-2
Disassembly Order
Note: This is a record of the order of steps I took, not a representation of the best order to do them in. This was my first time working on this model. I’d change a couple things next go round, but this worked.
- 1A - ribbon color select lever
- ribbon color select lever
- 4B - front panel
- front panel
- 2C - margin ruler
- margin ruler
- 2C - tab ruler
- tab ruler
- 2D - L chrome carriage cover
- L chrome carriage cover
- 2D - R chrome carriage cover
- chrome carriage cover
- 2E - platen R + L
- 2E - R platen knob
- R platen knob
- 2E (chrome) - L carriage release lever
- L carriage release lever
- line release spring
- 1F - line release assembly
- order: roller arm, bushing, coil spring (curved end hooking around roller arm), flat spring (bump facing away)
- line release selector (held against platen shaft by line release assembly)
- platen shaft + L platen knob + shaft line release
- platen
- 1G - L platen knob
- L platen knob + bushing
- 2H - platen clutch cover
- platen clutch cover
- clutch innards - 2 shoes, 2 shaft grippers, 2 pivot pins, 1 tiny locking pin (pointed on one side)
- 1I - paper holder shaft R
- paper holder shaft
- 2C - paper rest
- paper table + front roller (depress paper release lever)
- 2J - paper table rear, bottom, L + R
- paper table (lift paper L stop)
- draw band hooked on body screw
- 2K - Rear carriage rail brackets L + R
- 1L + M (behing frame, oriented like a “7”) - R front top frame
- 1N - L front top frame
- front top frame
- carriage - tapping L + R rear rail brackets with small hammer
- 2O - comb L + R
- comb (move as far up and angled out as it can go, place something between comb and frame, depress finger catching tab key and push tab key past finger. Then comb can be rotated and lifted out)
- draw band
- typebar rest