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The only thing I don't like about this machine is that the place the typewheel strikes is buried way down in the machine. Can you see what is being typed as you type it?

I´m very curious about the touch modification you mentioned. Please tell me more!

Another wonderful video! Thank you for sharing 🙏🏽

Thoroughly enjoyed this video ❤

i Was expecting to see AT keyboard.

How would you describe the action, sound and feel of the Ambassador versus the 3000? Thanks for your thoughts.

Really cool!

Awesome typewriter and you are very fast using it. Thank you for sharing. Sounds lovely in harmony with the cicadas :)

Man this kind of typewriter is fascinating.

But when incorrect word? Sir😊

just image how expensive it was

any replica?

At the 30 min mark, that "safety ratchet" is actually a click used to lock the starwheel when the carriage is returned left, in order to wind the mainspring. Or else the starwheel would rotate counter-clockwise. Daniel

I thought the original shields were made of tin?

Really exceptional explanation. I'm going to link to this in a blog post on the Hammond Typewriter website.

LOUD KEYBOARDS LOVE THEM AAAALL!! 😍😍😍

Been looking online to purchase one but turning up nothing. Do you have a link?

Excellent video! 07:20 Looking at the owner's guide, I believe that short stud helps provide a tactile (and visual) indication as to which face is pointing forward. Normal is straight back. Mimeograph is that bit on the right side (as seen from the back) and the carbon face is when it is on the left side. 01:10:00 The long S appears in English prominently up until the 19th century. (Look at a repro of the Geneva Bible and you'll see it all over the place once you recognize it for what it is.) It had a slightly different sound than the short S. It normally appeared at the beginning of words but not always. In Germanic script, this (I believe) became the Sharfe "S" (The "B" like thing) which, thanks to computer keyboards, is most commonly being replaced by "ss" at this point, and in English, I'm guessing it became the doubled "s" as we've always known it.

I have a Urania of some sort (not sure if its a difrent model or not but looks the same) but for some reason im only allowed to move the carrige in the middle of the page and type 6 letters per line before it stops going further. If you could help that would be very nice.

I’ve been shipped about 25 machines over the years and not one ever had this problem. Interesting though.

Прикольная штука!)

That is sweet! I’m guessing that the fine quality print is due to there being no ribbon between the type and the paper. I noticed the XKGB letters and immediately thought of 💩tin. 😝 Although I suspect once a KGB always a KGB. Go 🇺🇦!

Oh wow! This cool! I just randomly did an internet search for typewriters and their history. One article I read talked about index typewriters, something I’d never heard of. Since pics of them didn’t look like anything I’d seen before, a video search for how they worked led me here. Thanks for sharing this.

Sencilla. Bonita.

Thank you so much for this video!!! I’ve been trying to figure out how the mechanisms work but you can only do so much with pictures.

The progression from cast/milled parts to stamped parts is typical in the progression of mechanical designs. The milled parts are more precise and more robust but the stamped parts are cheaper, lighter, and easier to assemble even if they aren't quite as robust. That doesn't mean they aren't adequate for the job, though. You notice how overbuilt that earlier machine is. Classic example. These changes also typically make them easier to service as well.

I have a XT/AT Keyboard with sound when a key is pressed, how to turn off? it has a turbo key, i try a lot of combinations but can´t turn of the buzzer o piezoelectric speaker making sound

The stylus and the fact that you're basically "swiping" like on a modern cellphone is really interesting to me. It's crazy that this would be the more affordable option as it looks super heavy and far more complicated than a "regular" typewriter. Fascinating. I'd never seen one of these before until I was shopping on Etsy earlier today and had to search for a video on it. Thanks, great video as always.

It's so strange bc it doesn't even look like the pointer is touching the pad. It looks like he's swiping on a modern android! Wonder if that's where the concept came from.

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Too bad about cracking that lever, but I've had two (or is it three) Hammonds with one of those levers broken. I think the breakage happens when the shuttle becomes bound or sluggish and the typist pushes hard on the key to get it to move. The key levers have enough mechanical advantage to break the lever, which seems to be a casting. The takeaway for anyone who has gotten this far is not to force the keys when something binds. I haven't watched your next videos, hopefully you found an effective repair. Or is the JBWeld actually holding? That would be fantastic.

Hey there, I’m really struggling with fixing my tabulator on my Ambassador. I’ve taken all the back off and can’t figure out why, when I press the tab button the space bar and keys don’t work?! I don’t know why the tab does this? Any ideas please 🙏🏻

The body casing looks like the Continental Klein portables of the prewar!

My 1930 one with a 500,000 series # is a model “C”, it says…. Model”J” starts at 2 million in 1949.

Wish I understood all the terms and engineering of this all, but I get the gist… thank you!

Nice….. I debate whether or not I should get one of these?! I have a 1930’s Torpedo 15a, (I think) that is small, but a wonderful typer…. And today I picked up a Remington Travel-Riter from July of 1954, made in Holland, that is actually a Torpedo 20, it is said! So, do I need a Torpedo 18, when I have 2-300 typewriters already…… I’m not actually asking you… just wondering…. But feel free to comment, if you wish. The fact that Remington purchased Torpedo, to me, diminishes the appeal of owning real German typewriters…. Seems like American corporations usually end up diluting the quality and uniqueness of fine foreign brands….. like General Motors buying SAAB ….. that was the end of that super fine motor car!! Anyway, thanks for another fine vid…, keep sharing!

Really appreciating this series of videos you made. I'm in the process of servicing a BW-3183 and this has been an invaluable resource for solving the issues I'm running into and keeping me from going too far off track. Thanks!

I have an Adler Favorit…. But would surely love an Empire, or Adler standard thrust action unit! Thanks for the thorough review, and fun to see your other units, too!

Noticing in your side view, that the carriage has a large L shaped carriage track, as opposed to the usual C shaped smaller carriage track. This one probably affords great stability, and smoothness!

I learned to type on one of these Smith Coronas, when I was in 8th grade typing class, in Junior high school…., we also had a few of a slightly newer different companies Standard typewriter, but most were these! I can’t for the life of me remember what the other was, unless I saw a picture of one. It would have been fairly new in 1964-5…. And was more angular with crisp lines, than this SC….. and american…

You mentioned Pierson Airport, so I assume … Toronto, ON. I’ll be there in May, for my brothers wedding. Staying on the West side. Any chance of meeting at a Cafe or coffee house to chat typewriters?! Thanks for your thorough and indepth reviews!

I found an advertisement from an unknown date (1950?) that showed three Juwel models of typewriters by price. The top one was the “Blitz” at 350 Deutsche Marks, or 1,155.16€ today. Noting: “Juwel Blitz” “Die Kleine Fur Das Buro Oder Anspruchvolte” - “the small one for the office or demanding work” Next was the Juwel Fix, at 297.50 DM, and the Juwel Filius at 242.50 DM.

I just received a Juwel Blitz from the Czech Republic, that is supposed to be a Juwel Rapid… but seems to be model unique to itself. There seems to be no serial #, so cannot check production dates. It has chrome & glass keys, unlike the Rapid models I have seen. Has a pre, or just postwar feel, but the TWDB, lists Blitz’s as a 50’s model, so …… Anyway, I really like it, and once the segment is cleaned, it should be a snappy typewriter! Always love watching your indepth reviews and analysis! Thanks

Where did you get a ribbon? I have that model and need ribbons for it.

Thanks a lot for uploading this video! I got my hands on one of these machines after like a year of searching, and your videos are helping me bring it back to its former glory 🫡. Thanks again!

*Correction*: 56:18 Equalizer APO uses _IIR_ filters for its graphic and parametric EQs which I believe is inherently minimum-phase in this application, its separately supporting "convolution" filters which are synonymous with FIR. As far as I know, IIR more readily allows manipulations in the frequency domain while FIR takes in a .WAV file of the time domain impulse response and would thus require Fourier transforms to translate frequency domain changes into the impulse response that is being convolved with the audio signal. Likewise, FIR will only cause pre-ringing when you perform _non-minimum-phase_ manipulations (e.g. linear phase EQ) to the impulse response. Else, FIR can perfectly emulate minimum-phase IIR filters, and for a sufficient window length can capture the reflection properties of speaker responses in a room (showing up as delayed spikes within the impulse response, those spikes encoding the spectral balance and timing of those reflections), but necessarily incurring more latency and processing overhead proportional to the FIR filter's window length (.WAV file impulse response window). Those reflection spikes in the frequency domain show up in the sharp comb filtering among other jagged artefacts. The close relationship of the time and frequency domains is quite fascinating. Also, the Meze cables were later found to indeed be much closer than frequency response than as seen in this video, the variations having been due to movements in the headphone pads or in-ear mics. The Meze Elite "V3.1 PEQ" being so flat for my blocked canal in-ear measurements was due to the original Harman EQ based on the headphones.com measurements being similarly flat overall, but being rather wavy due to incorrect adjustments made by ear using sine sweeps and because EQ based on a test rig is not guaranteed to match your own ears. This flatness also lined up with the HiFiMan's expected deviations from neutral. As for the in-ear speaker responses, I later conducted a "threshold of hearing EQ" and determined that due to my in-ear measurements excluding the ear canal, there was actually a major mismatch between the actual at-eardrum response from measuring the speaker response with blocked canal in-ear mics and EQing the headphone measurement to show the same, whereby said threshold of hearing EQ ends up flattening things down closer to the V3.1 PEQ and HiFiMan tonalities but with the "HiFiMan dip" rather occurring around 1 kHz. See www.head-fi.org/threads/recording-impulse-responses-for-speaker-virtualization.890719/page-121#post-18027627 (post #1,812) for more details.

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Hi my name is Frank I'm living in The Bronx I just purchased a blickedsterfer 6 appreciate your videos on this typewriter. Wile working on restoration two parts fell out could you tell me what there for and if you can identify the parts could you tell me how to put them back will take photos thank you if you can help a bit lost. Thank you

I spotted an SG-1 in perfect condition for a reasonable price, but the carriage HUGE! It stuck out like an extra foot, and would have taken up more space on my desk than I was willing to give. I passed on it. I wonder if I should have brought it anyway and tried to trade carriages with someone?