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Olympia SM9: An Unexpected Journey

Some typewriter repairs appear to be fast and easy projects at the outset, but quickly turn challenging as the ailing typewriters reveal their more complicated selves. It’s just one thing after another, and soon the typewriter is taking you on a journey to an unknown destination.

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March 4, 2024maryech 11 Comments

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I am a middle-aged mother of two whose 12 year-old dragged home a broken typewriter. We fixed it. It was fun. It is fun. Now we have ten or twelve. We love our manual typewriters.

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