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Thursday, December 1, 2011

DAY OF THE OLIVER





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Saturday, October 29, 2011

SNOW DAY!





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Vanessa snowed in, in my driveway.

My Hermes 2000




Sunday, October 23, 2011

DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME





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Disassembled type tower of the donor machine.





Source of the problem--detached slug and type bar





"p" type slug








El Primo Oliver 9 with her new type bar and slug



Sunday, September 18, 2011

IMPROVING UPON LITERATURE





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My Black IBM Selectric I


Monday, September 12, 2011

GOING GREEN AND OTHER NONSENSE





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The real way to "go green"














Monday, September 5, 2011

Amsterdam Diary - Day 6





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Saturday, July 23, 2011

A Tale of Two Olivers ... Cont. ...





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Re-glued left platen knob:



Oliver no. 1.5 on its "treadle table"!











Above: Notice the thin metal key-comb donated from an Oliver 3.


Below: Top view with the original composite key-comb still in the machine. Notice there is no indication by markings that this is an Oliver 2.






Monday, July 11, 2011

A TALE OF TWO OLIVERS





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Oliver no. 2 the younger on its "treadle table"!



Oliver no. 2 the younger sitting prettily on new rubber feet -- Hilman no. 2 rubber stoppers.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Cincinnati Type-Fest II





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The Sunday morning remnant in Richard's dining room. From left to right: Herman Price, Alan Seaver, Richard Polt (the really tall guy), Jett Morton (in front of Richard and a bit shorter), Me, Jack Knarr, Felicia Alexander, and Mike Brown.







Oliver no. 2, Date of manufacture, 1898. Which brought you the current Tlog.


One of the things I stupidly forgot to bring to Cincinnati was type writer letterhead I had made for the occasion. So, I'm posting it below for you to download and make your own stationery as Richard Polt has done on his site.


Oliver letterhead - 1919



Oliver letterhead - 1920



Oliver envelope return address figure