Cameron Kopf, are you reading? Last week I received from Germany this gorgeous Gossen Tippa (B). It is a beautiful machine with a very responsive action. However, it had one quite serious flaw. It skipped and skidded about the place like a bar stool seems to under you, after you’ve sunk a few too many…
Welcome back to Filthy Labs. Previously in Filthy Labs, we began to assess the effectiveness of a “Wet” Teflon based lubricant spray on the functionality of a previously gummed up typewriter. The machine in question was an Adler Gabby 25, which had been filled with a capricious amount of WD40 by its previous owner. The…
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…
Warning: This blog entry is rated MA – for mature audiences. *Occasional coarse language. Which has nominally been bleeped out for you protection.*Low level violence.*Frequent bad movie references. This war, like all wars, started in a period of relative peace. I like relative peace. It is so peaceful in a relative way that I almost lull myself…
Moments after I wrote this, I pushed on a particularly soft piece of metal on the FP, and broke it. DOH! Another thing to fix now….
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