Fix my typewriter?
June 18, 2011 7:04 AM Subscribe
How do I fix this broken typewriter?
I have an Olivetti Lettera 32 which was in perfect working order until I managed to jam the space bar last week. It's not like when the letters jam and I can just push the little bars back down - the mechanism that's jammed is out of my reach and I'm reluctant to try to pull the thing apart.
I figure that over the many decades this typewriter's been around I can't be the first person to have tried to type too fast and jammed it up, so I'm wondering if there's some typewriter-aficionado trick I should know about that doesn't involve opening the case. I've tried Googling around for diagrams of the inside workings of the typewriter with no luck. Failing that, who should I look for to repair it? I can only seem to find places that repair modern electric typewriters (I'm located in Sydney, Australia).
I have an Olivetti Lettera 32 which was in perfect working order until I managed to jam the space bar last week. It's not like when the letters jam and I can just push the little bars back down - the mechanism that's jammed is out of my reach and I'm reluctant to try to pull the thing apart.
I figure that over the many decades this typewriter's been around I can't be the first person to have tried to type too fast and jammed it up, so I'm wondering if there's some typewriter-aficionado trick I should know about that doesn't involve opening the case. I've tried Googling around for diagrams of the inside workings of the typewriter with no luck. Failing that, who should I look for to repair it? I can only seem to find places that repair modern electric typewriters (I'm located in Sydney, Australia).
My mechanically gifted husband says "smack the left side of the carriage."
posted by lazydog at 3:58 PM on June 18, 2011
posted by lazydog at 3:58 PM on June 18, 2011
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posted by JanetLand at 8:41 AM on June 18, 2011