Here’s a comprehensive, thorough and over all impressive guide to the arts and crafts of typewriter maintenance. A rabbit hole I hope I never go through, ‘cause it can be the last hobby of mine that my wife needs to start walking and never look back.

Learning Typewriter Maintenance and Repair | Chris Aldrich

So you want to be a typewriter mechanic?
As some typewriter collectors have realized there is a typewriter revolution going on out there. This means that there’s a growing need for people who can clean, maintain, repair, and restore typewriters. If this sounds like something you’re interested in doing, there are a huge number of resources out there that you can tap into to figure out how to do all of this work on your own.