1941 Underwood typewriter

[colbolt54]

What kind of liquid was in that spray

[matkovicha]

I would be scared to death to sell a typewriter on ebay, I fear that whoever buys it will cut the keys off of it, and use them as jewelry.

[TheJunkCollecter]

Talking about a steal. I went to goodwill and got a royal hh typewriter. Turns out, some guy on ebay is selling the same typewriter for $140

[Dreambro1]

@TheJunkCollecter Selling? Or Sold? you cant go by the listing price, go to advance and select completed auctions! the items with green prices will tell you what actually sold! asking price and selling price can be Worlds apart! and ebay can be like stocks and bonds, you gotta know when to pick em up and when to drop em! this week an item can be a 300 dollar item, next week its a ten dollar item. Usually it happens that many see the high selling price and EVERYONE lists,flooding the market!

[hckrwolf]

i love how it just cuts to him playing the piano hahaha. he seems like a fun guy.

[navelgazerboreas]

Hello, Was hoping you could help me-my Underwood has problems when I hit the capital key,it prints way too high on the line.How can I fix this?

Cheers,

Martin

[greeterboy]

I'd love to know the name of that lubricant he's using. It looks like it says "Blow Off", but that would be just compressed air. However, it looks like liquid is shooting out of the thing.

[southjk]

@greeterboy It's called rubber rejuvenator by "blow off" it's actually like zylene with compressed air. Its a solvent that disolves old grease residue. It's really good to free up sticky keys and for cleaning ink residue from the platten.

[fungusoflannery]

what was that spray that you used? I'm about to try to refurbish an underwood. would WD40 work just as well?

[Morahman7vnNo2]

I see he's quite good on many types of keyboards.

[keikothemeowmeow]

Pretty sweet!

I just bought myself an Olympia SM 9 off of someone from craigslist for 15 dollars.

I find it strange how people essentially hand off antiques to people O_O The same typewriter was going for about 150 on ebay.

[southjk]

thanks for commenting...

I also picked up a Royal Quiet Writer at an estate sale for 5 bucks...works perfect

[Dreambro1]

@keikothemeowmeow Ebay can be Hit or miss too. I saw a typewriter go for over 200 bucks on ebay, then i listed the exact same item in the exact same condition, and it only brought 36.00! ;-(

[56smithcorona]

My uncle has a Underwood like that and is fully restored. He got me in to them and I got so far a 1956 smith-Corona Sterling a L.C Corona and 1970' brother wizard and im looking for a Hermes Baby if anyone could help me find one for under $500.

[ess1898]

that's one nice machine, is the repair guy you or someone you know? whoever he is he sure seems to know his stuff.

[captainkitsch]

I love my Underwood!

[curtisz789]

Thanks for this great video about cleaning & repairing a typewriter.

Ron looks like he could do it blindfold.

May we have more typewriter videos please.

Life is Good!

[curtisz789]

What's the magic solution that he sprays.

[southjk]

it's called rubber rejuvenator by "blow off"

[TornAlchemist]

Wow, this thing is beautiful. Where did you get this typewriter? Ive been looking for a typewriter of my own, sadly I havent found any that are within my general price range. I find that most vintage typewriters don't ever cost below two to three hundred dollars...

If anyone knows where I can find cheaper typewriters, please do tell me.

[southjk]

got this at an estate sale. Idon't think I've ever paid more than 5 dollars for these old type writers

thanks for commenting

[TornAlchemist]

I cant find any typewriters for that cheap. What state are you in that you can get a typewriter for 5 bucks? Ive been looking for estate sales all this time and not finding any.

[southjk]

go to a small town and look for a thrift shop or junk store.Antique stores are higher in price. I recently picked one out of a dumpster, although it was a 60's electric

[TornAlchemist]

I would kill for a great vintage manual typewriter. Thats the one thing I want. If I could have anything, it would be a Royal Quiet Deluxe, a Royal Model 10, a Remington Quiet-Riter, Smith Corona Silent Portable. I just love typewriters.

Sadly I cant seem to find any. I've looked and looked, and looked, and no thrift stores I go to have any typewriters, at least old manuals, for sale.

[southjk]

they are a dime a dozen down here

[xxrockmeisterxx]

@TornAlchemist

ebay.

[Amishman35]

At 2:54, you get the 1940s equivalent of CRT phosphor burn-in, the same letter in the same place for a long time.

[bluewun]

I'm only a fledgling typewriter person, but from what I've read, these over-size machines were meant as accounting typewriters. The extra-wide platen fits pages out of big ledger books. The other solution they came up with was typewriters that typed directly DOWN, onto books opened flat.

[southjk]

I think you're probably right.

thanks for comments

[looneywoman]

What exactly *were* those old wide carriage machines used for, anyway? Were they supposed to type on unusually large paper, or a lot of pages at a time, or what?

[southjk]

Best I can tell these were used to type on larger medua such as maps

thanks for comment