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The seductive allure of my Valentine.

Pardon my miss-use of ‘your’ below :-   It may seem twee to be writing about my Valentine typewriter on Valentine’s day, but then again my disdain for my Valentine has been rather well documented.   So it may surprise a few people that I revisited the Valentine, which hiding at the back of my collection,…

February 14, 2013 in auction, date, Dora., hate, love, machine, parts, red, repairs, typewriter, Valentine.

Polytetrafluoroethlene n’ that.

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…

December 2, 2012 in Adler, Filthy Labs, fix, Gabrielle 25, lubrication, machine, repair, teflon, typewriter, WD40.

Ep1. The apocalypse of the typosphere: A machine at the end of the world.

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October 15, 2012 in End of the world, fiction, Hermes 3000, machine, typewriter.

Vox Pop

Richard P on Time – Rone
John Cooper on Time – Rone
Scott K on What I learned working 8 years…
Scott K on What I learned working 8 years…
Scott K on What I learned working 8 years…

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  • 1: The Typosphere
  • A typewriter a day
  • AI type from Singapore
  • Backspace does not erase
  • Brum Typia
  • Claire La Sectretaire
  • Claudia's tappy Typewriters
  • Clickthing
  • Conversations with my ID
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  • Duffy moon
  • Fountain pens and typewriters
  • I dream lo-tech
  • Knotmagick
  • Little Flower Petals
  • Living In The Woods
  • Magic Margin
  • Manual Entry
  • McTaggart' Workshop
  • Mike Speegle's blog
  • Nat's lap taps
  • Of Type and Ink
  • Oz Typewriter
  • Phillywriter
  • Retrotech Geneva
  • Rev. Ari
  • Sommeregger's Sommeregger
  • Spiderz Webz
  • Streamlines Deluxe
  • Swinging typebars
  • The Art Of Letter
  • The impatient typewriter mechanic
  • The long, slow {typecast} blog
  • The Teeritz Agenda
  • The Typewriter Revolution
  • Tony's Vision
  • Totally your type
  • Typcasting in China
  • Type Oh!
  • Type, shoot straight and speak the truth
  • Type-writer.org
  • Typewriter heaven
  • Typewriters CH
  • Vintage technology obsessions
  • Writelephant
  • Wrong Way Write Way
  • X-Overit

Looking into the past

  • Time – Rone March 12, 2023
  • What I learned working 8 years in Maternity – Farewell to the Northern Hospital. December 29, 2022
  • Olivetti in Venice – The showroom and typewriters that defy time. October 17, 2020
  • The Storm Before The Calm. July 13, 2020
  • Things To Watch While You Are Quarantined. March 16, 2020

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