@timh Having one is very inexpensive and wonderful. If it's a portable with a case, even better because you can hide it away easily in a closet, on a shelf, or under a bed.

It's when you have 28 machines and you're buying bulk typewriter ribbon in reels of a 1/3 mile at a time that your wife questions whether you ought to be a collector or a repair person who is actively operating a typewriter shop. In the interim there is the so-called Difficult 4th Moped Solution...