Hermes 450 Technical Manual
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First Aid for Typewriters: advice from Popular Science, May 1941
R. T. Nicholson, Mechanical Devices of the Typewriter, 1920: Bar-Lock 14, Empire 1 and 2, Monarch 3, Oliver 9, Remington 10 and 11, Royal 10, L.C. Smith 8, Smith Premier 10, Underwood 5, Yost 15 and 20 fronststrokes. This book goes into greater detail than most user's manuals, and offers insights into various aspects of these makes that were popular in Britain at the time.
Typewriter Care: a Federal Work Improvement Program pamphlet from 1945. Good advice on caring for office typewriters of the day.
Typewriter Headquarters Catalogue, 1897: a dealer's brochure with basic information about many models of the day: Remington 1-5, Caligraph 1-2, Yost, Smith Premier, National, Williams, International, Hammond, Densmore, Franklin, Fitch, Bar-Lock, Automatic, Crandall, Hall, Odell, Dennis-Duplex, Merritt, Crown, Daugherty, World, Munson, and Victor. Courtesy of Michael Davenport.
Addo 822, 732, 841, and 621 (Swedish, English) (Facit name variant)
Adler Automatic (English, French, German, Spanish)
Adler Contessa De Luxe (English, French, Dutch, Spanish)
Adler Contessa 2 De Luxe (English, French, German, Spanish)
Adler Favorit (German)
Adler Gabriele 10, 20, 30 (German, Italian, Portuguese, Danish)
Adler Gabriele 10, 25, 35 (English, French, Dutch, Spanish)
Adler J2 and J4
Adler J3
Adler J2 and J5
Adler J2 and J5 (later)
Adler Junior 12
Adler Primus and Favorit
Adler Special (German)
Adler Tippa
Adler Tippa S (English, French, Dutch, Spanish)
Adler Universal
Adler Universal (German)
Alpina
Alpina (another version)
American index no. 2 (ca 1895-96)
American Visible
Atlas
Aztec 500/700 (Erika)
Aztec 600 (Rheinmetall KsT)
Bar-Let no. 2 (from Machines of Loving Grace)
Bar-Lock: see Royal Bar-Lock
Barr Special (ca. 1924)
Barr Universal
Bennett
Bennett (French)
Bennett promotional brochure
Bijou folding (Erika)
Blick Universal (rebranded Klein-Adler)
Blickensderfer no. 5 (early, 1 page)
Blickensderfer no. 5 (early, 1 page, another version)
Blickensderfer no. 5 (later, 26 pages)
Blickensderfer no. 7
Blickensderfer no. 8 (from Machines of Loving Grace)
Blickensderfer (Blick) Featherweight
Blue Bird (Torpedo 18)
Brother Charger 11
Brother Deluxe 897
Brother Deluxe 1510 and similar
Brother Echelon 66
Brother electronic typewriter
Brother EP-20
Brother EP-22
Brother JP-7 (Kmart 300 Deluxe 12)
Brother Opus 889 (from Machines of Loving Grace)
Brother small portable (no tabulator)
Brother small portable (no tabulator, Webster brand, 1966)
Brother small portable (with tabulator, came with a Webster)
Brother small portable (with tabulator, came with a Wizard Automatic)
See also Wizard
Buddy L 200 + 500 (English, French, German, Spanish)
Burroughs promotional brochure
Byron Junior (AKA Kamkap, Revere)
Caligraph no. 1 (ca. 1881)
Caligraph no. 3
Canon CanoWord PEN24 (Japanese)
Canon CanoWord PEN24E (Japanese)
Canon Typestar 3
Canon Typestar 5
Canon Typestar 6
Canon Typestar 6 (Japanese)
Canon Typestar 220
Chicago
Columbia index no. 2
Columbia Bar-Lock: see Royal Bar-Lock
Commercial Visible no. 6
Commodore (Consul 1511)
Commodore 650 (from Machines of Loving Grace)
Consul 221
Consul 232
Consul 233 (French)
Consul 1511
Consul 1518
Consul 1531
Consul Silent
Corona 3 (earlier)
Corona 3 (1920)
Corona Four (1924)
Corona Four
Corona Four (longer, ca. 1929)
Corona Four (Spanish)
Corona Special folding
Corona Zephyr
Corona Zephyr DeLuxe
Also see Smith-Corona
Coxhead DSJ
Crandall New Model
Crown index
Demountable no. 2 (1925)
Dial (Marx toy, ca. 1930)
Easy-writer 300 toy typewriter (AKA Buddy-L) (English, Spanish, French, German)
Emerson
Empire no. 1 (transcribed by Ian Jerams from R. T. Nicholson, Mechanical Devices of the Typewriter, 1920)
Empire portable (Hermes Baby clone, AKA Empire Aristocrat) (1959)
Erika 3 folding (French)
Erika 5, aka Ideal
Erika 5 (German)
Erika 9 (German)
Erika 10
Erika 10 (German)
Erika 11 (German)
Erika 12
Erika 30 & 40
Erika 33 & 43
Erika 34 & 44 (German)
Erika 34/44/48/50/60 (Dutch)
Erika 41 (German, English, French)
Erika 48 (German, English, Spanish, 1985)
Erika 50/60 (German, Hungarian, Polish)
Erika 100/105 (German, English, French)
Erika 120 (Russian, Romanian, Czech)
Erika M (German, ca. 1937)
Erika M (German, 1939, with an English translation of parts diagram)
Everest 90 (ca. 1948)
Everest K2
Everest K2 De Luxe
Everest K3
Facit 1620
Facit T2 (1971)
Facit TP1
Facit TP2 (instructions)
Facit TP2 (promotional flyer & controls diagram)
see also Addo
Florida
Fox portable no. 1
Fox Sterling
Franklin no. 7
Gossen Tippa and Tippa Pilot
Gossen Tippa (German, ca. 1951)
Groma Combina (German)
Groma Humber (Kolibri)
Groma Kolibri
Groma Kolibri (French)
Groma Kolibri (Polish)
Groma Kolibri promotional brochure
Groma Kolibri Luxus and Kolibri N
Groma Kolibri Luxus and Kolibri N (German)
Groma N and T (ca. 1953)
GSN Junior toy typewriter (German, English, French, Spanish)
H. G. Palmer portable (Smith-Corona Skyriter)
Halda portable
Hall
Hammond 1
Hammond 2
Hammond Folding Multiplex
Hermes 8
Hermes 9
Hermes 10 electric
Hermes 2000 (from Machines of Loving Grace)
Hermes 2000 brochure
Hermes 2000 leaflet
Hermes 3000 (early style)
Hermes 3000 / Media 3 (early style)
Hermes 3000 (Spanish, early style)
Hermes 3000 / Media (1970s)
Hermes Ambassador
Hermes Ambassador (German, ca. 1970)
Hermes Baby (ca. 1950)
Hermes Baby (French, ca. 1954)
Hermes Baby (French, ca. 1960)
Hermes Baby Featherweight (1930s)
Hermes Baby S (1960s) (Portuguese, English, French, German, Spanish)
Hermes Rocket (1959)
IBM Model A (1953)
IBM Model A Executive (1953)
IBM Model B (controls diagram)
IBM Model C
IBM Model C Executive (a couple of pages are missing)
IBM Selectric I (ca. 1961)
IBM Selectric I (1967)
IBM Selectric II
IBM Selectric III (1979)
IBM Selectric III (1985)
IBM Wheelwriter 1000 by Lexmark (1994)
Ideal 5 portable (Erika)
Imperial A
Imperial D
Imperial Good Companion (1936)
Imperial Good Companion Model T
Imperial Good Companion 3
Imperial Good Companion 4
Imperial Good Companion 5
Imperial Good Companion 6T
Imperial Good Companion 7
Imperial 55 (from typewriterbook.ru)
Imperial 60 (controls diagram)
Imperial 66
Japy P68 portable (French)
Japy portable: instructions for removing original packaging materials (French)
Japy Script (English) (also good for Amaya, Byron portable, Patria, Oliver Courier, Swissa, and Voss Privat)
Japy Script (French)
Kamkap: see Byron Junior
Kmart 300 Deluxe 12, made by Brother (English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish)
Lambert no. 1 (French)
Lambert no. 3
Lyubava (Russian, 1990)
L.C. Smith nos. 1, 2, 5, and 6 (1914)
L. C. Smith no. 8 (1926)
L. C. Smith no. 8 promotional brochure and parts diagram (1928)
Manhattan (also valid for Remington Standard no. 2)
Maritsa 11
Marx Dial (ca. 1930)
Marxwriter (1965)
McLoughlin
Mercedes 3 (German)
Mercedes 6 (control diagram, English)
Mercedes Elektra (German)
Mercedes Prima and Superba (German)
Nakajima small portable
National understroke
National no. 5 portable
Nippo (ca. 1960)
Nippo P-200
Noiseless (3-bank standard)
Noiseless Portable (1922)
Odell no. 4
Oliver Courier (from natslaptaps) -- (also good for Amaya, Byron portable, Japy portable, Patria, Swissa, Voss Privat)
Oliver 5 user manual; fingering method; 'Your Final Typewriter' promotional brochure
Oliver 9 and 11
Olivetti Dora
Olivetti Editor 2: user's manual, brief instruction booklet, summary of characteristics, promotional brochure
Olivetti Editor 4 and 4 C summary of characteristics (1969)
Olivetti Editor 5 summary of characteristics (1969)
Olivetti Lettera 22
Olivetti Lettera 22 (British Olivetti, 1950)
Olivetti Lettera 22 (another version)
Olivetti Lettera 22 (French)
Olivetti Lettera 25 (Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, English)
Olivetti Lettera 31
Olivetti Lettera 32 (1964)
Olivetti Lettera 32 (British Olivetti, 1965)
Olivetti Lettera 33 (1967)
Olivetti Lettera 35
Olivetti Lettera 35 (Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, English) (1977)
Olivetti Lettera 36 (controls diagram)
Olivetti Lexikon 82
Olivetti Lexikon 83 DL (1976)
Olivetti Lexikon 90 (Italian, French, English)
Olivetti Linea 98
Olivetti MP1 portable (ICO) (translated into English from German by James Dow)
Olivetti MS 25 Premier Plus (AKA Royal MS 25 Premier Plus)
Olivetti portables (general manual applicable to many 1960s & later typewriters; in Italian, German, French, Spanish, English, and Portuguese)
OlivettiPraxis 48 (from Machinesof Loving Grace)
Olivetti Roma
Olivetti Studio 44
Olivetti Studio 45
Olivetti Valentine (from natslaptaps)
Olivetti Valentine (French)
Olivetti Ventura
Olympia 99 (SF) (Japanese & English)
Olympia B12
Olympia Electric 50
Olympia-Plana (postwar)
Olympia Progress (Russian)
Olympia SF (rounded body)
Olympia SF (angular body) ca. 1960
Olympia SG1
Olympia SG3 (English)
Olympia SG3 (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Serbo-Croatian)
Olympia SG3N
Olympia SG3 Deluxe brochure
Olympia SM2
Olympia SM3
Olympia SM4
Olympia SM4 (different version)
Olympia SM5
Olympia SM7
Olympia SM9 (1960s)
Olympia SM9 (1970s)
Olympia Splendid 33
Olympia Splendid 66: version 1, version 2
Olympia Traveller
Olympia Traveller (Japanese & English)
Olympia X-L12 or M-R12 electric (and promotional brochure)
Optima Elite (1959, English)
Optima Elite (1958, German)
Optima P1 (German) (from Machines of Loving Grace)
Optima Super (Erika 10)
Orga Privat (German, ca. 1930)
Ortekh (Russian)
H. G. Palmer portable (Smith-Corona Skyriter)
Panasonic KX-R310
Panasonic KX-W1000
Patria, Amaya, Meteor (made in Spain) - (also good for Byron portable, Japy portable, Oliver Courier, Swiss Patria, Swissa, Voss Privat)
Penncrest Caravelle 10 and 12 (5 series)
Penncrest Caravelle 10 and 12 (6 series)
Peoples
Pittsburgh (aka Pittsburg) Visible No. 12
Postal
Practical no. 2 (Simplex)
Princess 300
Princess 400 (German)
Princess 500 (ca. 1974) (German)
Pullman (also known as American, Armstrong, etc.)
R. C. Allen (1951)
R. C. Allen VisOmatic (1958)
Rem-Blick (S.P.-Blick, i.e. Smith-Premier Blick, name variant of the Rem-Blick)
Remington Standard no. 2 & 4
Remington Standard no. 6 & 7
RemingtonStandard no. 10 & 11 (1910)
Remington 3B
Remington 11 portable (ca. 1960)
Remington 17 (ca. 1939)
Remington 333
Remington Fleetwing
Remington Junior (1934)
Remington KMC
Remington KMC (controls diagram)
Remington Letter-Riter
Remington Mark II (1966)
Remington Noiseless Portable
RemingtonNoiseless 7 (from Machinesof Loving Grace)
RemingtonNoiseless 8 and 9 (from Machines of Loving Grace)
Remington Noiseless 10 (ca. 1940)
Remington Noiseless 10 (ca. 1950)
Remington Noiseless 10 (1952)
Remington Personal-Riter (1968)
Remington portable #1 (1922)
Remington portable #2
Remington portable #3
Remington portables (1936): includes Model 1, Noiseless Portable, Noiseless 7 & 8, Remington 9 (from Machines of Loving Grace)
Remington portables (1940): includes Streamline Model 5, Deluxe Junior, Remette, Deluxe Noiseless, Model 7 Noiseless, Remington Rand Model 1, and Remington Premier
Remington Quiet-Riter manual and touch typing instructions (1951)
Remington Quiet-Riter and Letter-Riter (1950s)
RemingtonRand Model 1 (from Machines of Loving Grace)
Remington Rand Two-Tone Deluxe Portable (1940s)
Remington Rem-ette (1938)
Remington Rem-Riter
Remington Standard (Super-Riter)
Remington Standard (no. 19)
Remington Super-Riter
Remington Ten Forty
Remington Travel-Riter (1950s)
Remington Travel-Riter Deluxe (1960s)
Remington Victor S and T, 1936 (AKA streamlined model 5 portable)
Rem-Rand Bantam
Revere: see Byron Junior
Rex Visible
Rheinmetall portable, 1930s (German)
Rheinmetall KsT
Roxy (Rooy)
Royal pamphlet: 'Typing Better Letters' (1948)
Royal 10 instruction manual and instruction leaflet, 1920s
Royal 10 manual/brochure, ca. 1915
Royal 240 portable (aka Marksman, Astronaut) (English, French, German, Spanish)
Royal Aristocrat (1957)
Royal Arrow (1941)
Royal Arrow (1949)
Royal Caravan
Royal Diana (earlier)
Royal Diana (later)
Royal Electress
Royal Electric (1950s)
Royal Electric Portable (1970s)
Royal Empress (from Machines of Loving Grace)
Royal Epoch
Royal FP (1957)
Royal Futura
Royal Grand
Royal HE electric (1960)
Royal HE electric (1960) (a different version)
Royal HH (1952)
Royal KH and KHM (1937)
Royal KMG (parts diagram)
Royal KMM
Royal Mercury
Royal MS 25 Premier Plus (AKA Olivetti MS 25 Premier Plus)
Royal O portable (1936)
Royal O portable (Russian)
Royal Parade (1963)
Royal portable (1926)
Royal portable (1930) (Print double-sided; cut the last two pages lengthwise and staple them to the lower half of the manual.)
Royal portables (1953) (from Machines of Loving Grace)
Royal Portable Electric (aka Apollo 10-GT, Apollo 12-GT, made by Silver-Seiko)
Royal Quiet De Luxe (1941)
RoyalQuiet De Luxe (1948) (from Machines of Loving Grace)
Royal Quiet De Luxe and Arrow (1949)
Royal Quiet De Luxe (1952)
Royal Royalite
Royal Sabre and Custom III portables (1968)
Royal Safari (1964)
Royal Sahara and Caravan (= Adler Tippa) (English, French, German, Spanish)
Royal Scrittore II (2012, English/Spanish)
Royal Signet (early 1960s)
Royal Sprite or Mercury (and similar small Royals made in Japan)
Royal Standard (flatbed)
Royal UB portable (1940) (Here is a neat version retyped by Nick Bodemer)
Royal Ultronic
Royal Bar-Lock 10
Salter No. 7
Sears Achiever (by Brother)
Sears Attache (by Smith-Corona)
Sears Celebrity (by Smith-Corona)
Sears Citation 2 (by Smith-Corona)
Sears Cutlass (by Smith-Corona)
Sears Electric 10 (by Smith-Corona)
Sears Electric Twelve (by Smith-Corona)
Sears Electric Power 10 & Celebrity Power 12 (by Smith-Corona)
Sears Electronic Communicator
Sears Forecast 12 (by Smith-Corona)
Sears Medalist Power 12 & Electric Power 12 (by Smith-Corona)
Sears Newport
Sears President 12 (by Smith-Corona)
Sears Tower President (by Smith-Corona)
Signature 440T (by Brother, 1966)
Signature 510 and 513 (by Brother)
Signature 511D (by Brother, 1972)
Signature 1003D (electric by Brother)
Silver Reed 8650 electric (aka Silver-Seiko 6200)
Silver Reed EX-32 (from Writelephant)
Silver-Seiko small portables (includes Silver-Reed, Imperial 200, and several small Royals) (English, French, German, Spanish)
Silver-Seiko electric: see Royal Portable Electric
Simplex: see Practical
Singer T-65 (by Smith-Corona)
Singer T-82 electric (by Smith-Corona)
Smith-Corona Citation Electronic 100
Smith-Corona Classic
Smith-Corona Classic 12
Smith-Corona Corsair (1967)
Smith-Corona Coronet electric (1960s)
Smith-Corona Coronet XL electric (1980)
Smith-Corona Corsair Deluxe (1971)
Smith-Corona Cougar Deluxe
Smith-Corona Deville Deluxe (1980)
Smith-Corona electric portable (1957)
Smith-Corona floating shift portables (1937, 'flattop' models)
Smith-Corona floating shift portables (1938, streamlined models)
Smith-Corona floating shift portables (1938, German)
Smith-Corona floating shift portables (1949)
Smith-Corona Galaxie (1960s)
Smith-Corona Galaxie II (1960s)
Smith-Corona Galaxie II (1960s), formatted for booklet printing—print double-sided on short side, then staple
Smith-Corona Golden Shield Courier
Smith-Corona Memory Correct (1999)
Smith-Corona midsized portables (1951)
Smith-Corona floating shift portables (1951), formatted for booklet printing — print double-sided on short side, then staple
Smith-Corona midsized portables (1970s)
Smith-Corona midsized portables (1976)
Smith-Corona Secretarial 315, Secretarial 415, Secretarial 250, and Secretarial 76 (1967)
Smith-Corona Silent-Super, Sterling, and Clipper (1958)
Smith-Corona Skyriter (1955)
Smith-Corona Skyriter (1960)
Smith-Corona standards (ca. 1950)
Smith-Corona Sterling (1963)
Smith-Corona Super-G
Smith-Corona Vantage controls diagram
Smith-Corona Wordsmith 100
Smith-Corona 88
Smith-Corona 10-Day Touch-Typing Course (hi-res version of the file and audio for the course can be found here; audio is also on YouTube) (courtesy of John Munroe)
Smith Premier no. 1 (version 1)
Smith Premier no. 1 (version 2)
Smith Premier no. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6
Smith Premier Tri-Chrome ribbon mechanism
Smith Premier no. 10
Sun index ('dogbone' style) (from Machines of Loving Grace)
Super deLuxe (Chinese version of the Brother JP-7)
Taylorix Contofix Junior (German)
Taylorix Contofix Junior (English translation)
Tom Thumb
TOPS M2
Torpedo 18
Torpedo Super 6 (German)
Tower Chieftain (Olivetti) (from Machines of Loving Grace)
Tower Chieftain II (Smith-Corona) (from Machines of Loving Grace)
Tower Chieftain III (Smith-Corona)
Tower Citation 88 (Smith-Corona), 1962
Tower Commander (Smith-Corona), ca. 1950
Tower Quiet-Tabulator (Smith-Corona), 1956
Tower Tabulator (Underwood) ca. 1950
For many Tower (Sears-branded) models, see Smith-Corona or Underwood.
Toyo (sold under names including Alpina Baby, Condor, Jaguar, Rexina)
Triumph-Adler Contessa De Luxe (English, French, Dutch, Spanish)
Triumph-Adler Contessa 2 De Luxe (English, French, German, Spanish)
Triumph Norm and Perfekt
Triumph Perfekt (German)
Underwood 3, 4, and 5 (from Acme Instructor for the Underwood Typewriter, 1898)
Underwood3, 4, and 5 (1920s?) (from Machines of Loving Grace)
Underwood 3, 4, and 5 (1929)
Underwood 3, 4, and 5 (1930)
Underwood 6 controls diagram (1937)
Underwood 18 (Antares), English/French/German (from natslaptaps)
Underwood 19 (Antares)
Underwood 21 (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian)
Underwood 315
Underwood All Electric
Underwood Champion portable (1938)
Underwood Champion portable (1946)
Underwood Champion and Universal portables (1948)
Underwood De Luxe Leader
Underwood De Luxe Leader (retyped by Nick Bodemer)
Underwood Deluxe Quiet Tab and Universal Quiet Tab
Underwood Finger-Flite (Champion and Universal) (1950s)
Underwood Golden-Touch portables (late 1950s)
Underwood Leader
Underwood Noiseless 77 (identical to Remington Noiseless Portable no. 7)
Underwood portable (3-bank keyboard)
Underwood portable (3-bank keyboard), earlier version, controls diagram
Underwood portable (4-bank keyboard, 1929)
Underwood portable (1931)
Underwood Rhythm Touch DeLuxe
Underwood standard ca. 1950 (controls diagram)
Underwood Universal (1940)
Varityper (1940)
Varityper DSJ
Student's Outline for Vari-Typer Operation
Varityper VT 3217 (1972)
Varityper typefaces (1967)
Victor index
Victor no. 3
Voss
Voss with decimal tabulator
Voss (German, 1960, explaining the 6 different models—courtesy of typewriters.ch)
Webster: see Brother
Wizard Truetype
See also Brother
Woodstock no. 5 (1920)
Woodstock and Woodstock Electrite (1926)
World index (1887)
Yost no. 4 (ca. 1897)
Young American (also known as American Visible)
AmesTypewriter Mechanical Training Manual, 1945, vol. 1, for Remington, Underwood carriage-shift, Royal, L.C. Smith, and Woodstock standard typewriters, by Clarence LeRoy Jones
Amessupplement on Underwood segment-shift standards
Amessupplement on Woodstock (later R.C. Allen) segment-shift standards
Ames Typewriter Mechanical Training Manual, 1945, vol. 2, for portables: coverand contents, Remington, Royal, Smith-Corona, Underwood
AmesTypewriter Mechanical Training Manual, 1945, vol. 3, for noiseless standards, by Byron L. Wolfe
Ames Basic Manual for Electric Typewriters, 1970, for Royal, Remington, Smith-Corona, Underwood, IBM Selectric, and IBM C and D
AmesBasic Training Manual for Standard Typewriters, 1968, for Royal, Underwood, Remington, Smith-Corona, Adler, Hermes, and Olympia
Barr service manual (1928)
Burroughs no. 50 manual service manual (1932)
Burroughs no. 60 electric service manual (from Machines of Loving Grace)
Burroughs Models 50 & 60 reference manual (from Machines of Loving Grace)
[H. C. Frierson],
Textbookon Typewriter Repairing, 1912 (vol. 2, illustrations, showing Underwood, Royal, Oliver, Smith Premier, L. C. Smith, Remington, Fox, and Monarch)Home Study Course in Typewriter Repair and Service: ca. 1959, published by the Typewriter Repair School in Little Falls, New Jersey. Focuses on the Royal KMM, and IBM Model C, with a supplement on Remington electric adding machines.
IBM Models 01-10 Manual of Instruction (1939 with later additions)
IBM C-1 service manual
IBM C4 and C5 (Executive) service manual
IBM electrics service manual (1953)
IBM parts manual (1960)
IBM Selectric 71 & 72 parts catalog
More IBM service manuals can be found on Bitsavers.
Bryan Kravitz, Hints for a Happy Typewriter, 1983: general advice on typewriter care, with fun illustrations
Mercedes standard service manual (text only, German)
Mercedes 3 parts
Olivetti M40 service manual (Italian)
Olympia electronic compact: see various service documents at Bitsavers.
Olympia SG1 service manual: text, illustrations
Olympia SM series service manual (1955)
Remington Standard no. 2 service instructions, from Typewriter Secrets
Remington no. 17 service manual (1942) (from the collection of the late Bob Montgomery of Bremerton Office Machine Co.)
Remington Electric service manual (1960)
Remington Electri-Conomy service manual (1951)
Hermes 450 Technical Manual Online
Remington electric service manual (1960)Remington KMC parts catalog (1947)
Remington KMC service manual (1949)
Remington Monarch portable service manual (1960)
Remington new style electric typewriter service manual (1956)
Hermes 450 Technical Manual Free
Remington Noiseless no. 10 parts catalog (1947)
Remington Noiseelss no. 10 service manual (1936)
Remington Noiseless no. 10 service manual (1943) (from the collection of the late Bob Montgomery of Bremerton Office Machine Co.)
Hermes 450 Technical Manual Free
Remington Noiseless no. 10 service manual (1952)
Remington noiseless portables service manual (1944) (from the collection of the late Bob Montgomery of Bremerton Office Machine Co.)
Remington portable (non-noiseless) service manual (1931)
Remington standard service manual (1954)
Remington Super-Riter service manual (1951)
Remington Travel-Riter service manual (1960)
Remington 1953 parts catalog for portables AN (no tabulator), QR (Quiet-Riter), and ER (Office-Riter)
Remington1953 service manual for portables AN (no tabulator), QR (Quiet-Riter), and ER (Office-Riter)
Royal P repair manual (1926) (also here)
Royal standards service manual, from Royal Typewriter Co. (1940s)
Royal Typewriter Maintenance and Repair (US Army & Air Force, 1955)
Underwood service manual by H. G. Pearce (1920)
Underwood maintenance and repair (US Army, 1955)
Woodstock Adjustment Manual and Parts List, N580,000 and up (1942) (from the collection of the late Bob Montgomery of Bremerton Office Machine Co.)
Saladin Class Destroyer | |
Stated scale: | 1/1000 |
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Material(s): | styrene / resin |
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Working on the PNT Dreadnought conversion kit got me all bugged up to make the rest of the Franz Joseph cut'n'paste starships from the old ST Tech Manual. The Destroyer, Scout, and Transport are simple enough to scratch'n'bash using Polar Lights TOS 1/1000 Enterprise kits. I began by parting out the pieces from three of Polar's E kits. The details for each build are below but there are a number of things common to both builds, and to the Dreadnought and the four Enterprises. such as deflector dishes and deflector armatures...
No, it's not a small pizza... 9 dishes painted 1:1 Testors copper and Model Master leather enamel. 3 of the small dishes are for the destroyer, scout, and transport, 4 for the Enterprises (3 large, 1 small), two small for the Dreadnought. And one dish to rule them all, one dish to find them, one di... oops, nevermind.
The armature mount is a bit of heat-stretched styrene sprue and 0.1' lead shot. I set the shot in clay and drilled a small divot into it, then superglued the styrene to it. This will be the master for an RTV mold to make castings.
And on the matter of names and numbers...
Destroyer = U.S.S. Fletcher, NCC-1445, named after the WW-II destroyer class
Scout = U.S.S. Peddicord, NCC-825, named after the officer-in-charge of the US Navy's new Scouts and Raider School in 1942.
Parts for each ship from the Polar Lights kit are:
Parts to be scratchbuilt are the deflector dish armature. Destroyer will also require some phaser turrets. |
The only difference between these two builds will be the extra phasers on the Destroyer. I assembled the saucers with no modifications. Using a keyhole saw, I cut away the 2' hull from the connecting dorsal neck, then glued the neck halves together. The aft section of the nacelle has to be rotated 90° to allow the warp grid to be on the keelside of the project.
I laid the nacelle halves down in a miter box to make the cut true then used the cut side to mark the cut location for the other nacelle half. This is best done to each half separately so that the cut doesn't slant. With the fore and aft nacelle halves glued together I positioned the rotated end piece in place and cemented it on.
1/16/2011 - Next up - mark & cut the location of the dorsal neck attachment. I first marked a centerline down the top side of the nacelle. I measured and drew the neck outline on a piece of tape then laid the tape over the marked centerline. Next I cut the opening with a Dremel tool fitted with a cutting wheel and filed it to final shape.
I attached the neck to the saucer, checking to be sure it fit square to the saucer. Then I aligned and glued the nacelle to the neck and tweaked its positioning and set the model aside to dry.
A couple other notes - I filled the old nacelle attachment hole and front intercooler holes with epoxy putty. The aft intercooler holes will serve to locate the intercoolers. I puttied over the engraved nacelle & neck panel lines since they're way to big to be correct detail.
2/7/2011 - puttying, sanding, and filing has been going on this for a while - and finally de-gapping the seam between the nacelle and the end-cap. The band of tape protects the end cap ribbing while filling the gap. This problem is present on all copies of this kit.
2/14/2011 - After lots more sanding, puttying, re-puttying, and dealing with a gravitic mine impact that broke a nacelle off, these finally got ready for primer.
2/15/2011 - After installing the deflector armatures, these went to priming. They have coats of automotive gray on them now. The whole project is here.
3/1/2011 - One final detail to finally distinguish the Destroyer from the Scout are the ships phaser blisters.
I had pulled some small RTV putty molds off the Dreadnought's phasers. I made resin casts of these then broke and sanded away the flash, leaving just the blisters. I measured for their positions and superglued them into place on the ships.
Finally I can say: Destroyer on the left, Scout on the right. The Destroyer has 6 blisters, two pairs topside, one pair below. The Scout just has one pair below.
On to painting, which is on the whole project page here.