I finished the Wednesday Addams and Enid Sinclair dorm room LEGO set in time for Halloween. 

A LEGO version of the Nevermore dorm room of Wednesday Addams and Enid Sinclair sits on top of a copy of Edgar Allen Poe's collected works which sits on top of a shiny black enamel flat top portable typewriter.

The typewriter is  a tiny custom LEGO with a pre-affixed sticker and a small white LEGO attached as a simulacrum of paper. 

A close up of Wednesday Addams side of her dorm room constructed in LEGO featuring a small LEGO brick with a sticker that stands in as her typewriter. At the back of the typewriter is a piece holding a white LEGO representing paper.

 

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:

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.

Acquired 1946 Royal KMM Standard Typewriter (Royal Typewriter Co. Inc.)
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.

Hero view of a dirty black 1946 Royal KMM typewriter with an extra wide carriage. The typewriter sits on a vintage metal stick-leg table with a book case and several index card filing cabinets in the background.

Left side view of a 1946 Royal KMM typewriter featuring a structural support "wing" on the left side to help hold the weight of the 18" platen.

Rear view of a black 1946 Royal KMM typewriter with an extra-wide 18 inch carriage. The water slide decals are old and faded, but the machine otherwise looks to be in good, though dirty condition.

Focus on the window onto the serial number of a 1946 Royal KMM typewriter on the right side of the machine underneath the carriage moved to the far left.

Temporary typesample for a 1946 Royal KMM typewriter