Well! My post yesterday might have sounded a bit depressing… but believe me, it isn’t depressing around here! We’ve been baking and wrapping, and talking over the phone to people all over the world, and it’s been great! Seriously… Facetime on my iPhone is awesome. Today I’ve spoken to people between Melbourne and Peru. How…
Now… I’ll be frank. I’m not a Christmas-y person. There’s no decorated tree in my home, no tinsel to filthy the carpet, and only a handful of Christmas cards are handed out to people that I feel are important. …… buuuuuuuut. I”m not a Scrooge either. So there’s no need to send the ghosts of…
I came across a Olympia Cyrillic typewriter on Gumtree.com.au a little while ago, and had a hell of a time getting the seller to send it to me. In the end, they just disappeared and ceased email contact. About 4 months later I saw them advertise the same machine again on the same site. Again…
It’s the sort of machine that I’d expect to find and read about over at the Dante’s Wardrobe blog, but yet it has proved to be something of a complete mystery. Let me introduce you to a typewriter that I have not seen an awful lot of information about. Filthy, filthy keys. And these…
Someone needs to change the guitar to a typewriter… …. and make a Nano meme. … or something.
Sorry if this sounds a little rantive. It was written with a glass of Vodka and lemonade next to me, with a head full of muddled ideas and feelings about the future. ….. Well, that is a little bit of luck to tell my side of the story if it all goes bad.…
My Olympia SM3 is in near perfect condition and it looks as though it has just been pulled off the showroom floor. I acquired this machine roughly a month ago, and the story behind it is interesting – and it may still be told sometime in the future. But right now I’m calling this…
Greetings! And welcome to Filthy Labs. Polytetrafluoroethlene is a compound that my spell-check seriously dislikes. So let’s just abbreviate it to its more common name: Teflon. You may recall a few weeks ago, I started using a ‘dry’ Teflon based lubricant on my Oliver 5 machine to see how well it worked. Meanwhile, I had…
The Filthy Platen 