It’s been a rough year for a number of reasons, but I’ve bought a hundred postcards to try to catch up with people. Kindly send me your address if you haven’t heard from me in a bit and need proof of life.
Hilbert Spaces week 6
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How do you use your typewriter? [Wrong Answers Only Edition]
It’s really an over-asked question: What do you use your typewriter for?. (tl;dr: writing). To make things more interesting and entertaining in the middle of the week, let’s turn it on its ear and ask only for the wrong answers today.
Whether it’s use in food preparation:
- Throw a slab of steak into the segment and pound away for a bit until well tenderized. Then insert into oven at 400 degrees F until it’s medium rare and you’ve got some excellent typebar grill marks.
Environmental reasons:
- Creation of new coral reefs for the fishes (aka 1930s Norwegian Typewriter Olympics: Shot put competition)
Or attempting to cleverly camouflage your 57th machine acquisition from your partner:
- When you’ve got too many and you need them to be useful in other ways, you turn a Royal KMM into a decorative door stop.
Send us your favorite personal uses for typewriters… Wrong answers only.
Serial Number: KMM18-3015689
Extra-wide 18 inch platen with support "wings" and a 10 key decimal tabulator
Royal Elite typeface at 12 CPI and 6 lines/inch vertical
I purchased this 1946 Royal KMM standard typewriter on October 4th via Goodwill for $22.00. It’s equipped with an extra-wide 18 inch platen and carriage with “support wings” and a 10 key decimal tabulator which means in its day it would have been used for some heavy-duty accounting.
The logos could be in better shape, but the rubber feet and overall condition are pretty exceptional. It’ll definitely need a good cleaning and some very minor adjustments. Tipping the scales at 47.8 pounds makes this the heaviest typewriter in the collection so far. $0.46 per pound isn’t a half bad deal for something in this condition.
Can’t wait to do some restoration work on my second Royal KMM.
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