Typewriter: Etsy Typing, Half-Spacing and Olympia Traveller De Luxe
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In this video I take you through some of my workflow for typing assignments when I get orders on Etsy for texts to be typed on real typewriters, also demonstrating an often unused feature of many typewriters: half-spacing.
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Thanks a lot. Very nice and easy to follow explanation.
Thank you, and you're welcome. That reminds me I really need to make more typewriter videos. They are such fascinating machines.
This is great! Just what I need for typing glad I found this channel. 👍🏼
Thanks. Great to hear you enjoyed it and found it useful. And that reminds me I really need to do more typewriter videos.
Hey man, great video, I know you are a small channel but at least I’ll be one of the couple hundred subscribers. Love the content, keep it coming. ^_^
The only way for a small channel to become a big channel is for appreciative viewers like you subscribing, so thanks for that. While I make RUclips videos for fun and my own enjoyment more than anything else, it would also be nice one day to have more than 1,000 subscribers.
I will keep making the content I find interesting, and hopefully it will also keep appealing to others.
This is great. I have the same typewriter, I got mine as a present in the late 80s and have used it over the years for job application forms but have dusted it off to make various labels. Who knows maybe even a story. Build quality outstanding.
Thanks. Yes, it was my first typewriter, and it might still be my favourite overall. Of the ones I have it's not the most comfortable to type on, being a little on the heavy side compared to things like its larger cousins the SM8 and SM9, for instance, but it has a feel of utter mechanical reliability, it retains perfect letter alignment unlike most machines, and it's also one of the quickest ones to set up for any odd typing jobs it might be needed for.
This design was made in Yugoslavia, in the town of Bugojno (Bosnia), near Sarajevo. It was produced under the brand UNIS for Yugoslav market.
The design itself is German, not Yugoslavian, made for Olympia by Alfons Boothby and Georges Joseph in 1969, and the Traveller Deluxe was also initially made in the Olympia factory in Wilhelmshafen before they gradually moved production to Udružena Metalna Industrija Sarajevo (UNIS) and their office machine factory in Bugojno.
Identical machines were also made and marketed as UNIS tbm for the Eastern European and domestic Yugoslav markets, and later also seem to show up with other keyboard layouts under the UNIS brand.
@@hakonsoreide Thanks, I appreciate your info. I never thought it was originally Yugoslav design, I said it was made in Yugoslavia, but actually I meant it was produced in Yugoslavia (in Bugojno).
I just found a few days ago a Serbian Cyrillic Olympia Traveler C (very rare thing), so I was searching for info about the model, that's how I got to this video. I'm not an expert on typewriters, on the contrary, I'm actually trying to find out how to align lowercase letters on my new Olympia Traveler C.
Since it was sold as a UNIS machine, thinking it was designed in Yugoslavia is, in fact, a very reasonable idea, and since you said "made" and not "manufactured", that is technically what you said in your comment. After the sharp decline in typewriter demand, later Olympias, such as the B12, were designed by Nakajima in Japan and just rebranded as Olympia B12, Japy and Hermes 305, and of course at least one Olympia was also made after the brand was sold to a Chinese company, so it's not a given that any Olympia design would be German.
Anyway, I've seen the occasional Serbian Cyrillic UNIS tbm, but never a Traveller C. Nice find.
When you say lower case alignment, I presume the upper and lower case are misaligned on your machine? There should be two adjustment screws as part of the shift mechanism (if you put the machine upside down and press shift you should be able to spot it), usually on the left side and normally reasonably easily acessible from either below or above with the lid off. One screw sets the segment position when shift is pressed, and the other when it isn't. Usually it is the position of the upper case that might need adjusting, but it could also be lower case, or even both, in order to make them properly centered on the ribbon and striking the platen at the correct angle.
My Traveller was perfectly adjusted when I bought it, so I've not looked to see where it is on this style of mechanism, but I've had to adjust the alignment on a few other machines.
@@hakonsoreide Hakon, thank you so much for your input. I've watched several videos and read some manuals, so I understand there are some screws which enable the adjusting of letters. But I'm still not sure which ones on my typewriter, so I believe your advices would be of great use. Very soon, when I found some more spare time I'll delve into it and hopefully find the solution. I'm pretty positive that it is the lowercase that needs the adjustment because the uppercase is about 1mm above the lowercase baseline, and lowercase "p", "y" and "ф" miss their descenders when typed.
I honestly never thought that could be original Yugoslav design, because I saw many original German examples on the internet, and obviously I never even imagined that Germans would pick their industrial design from Yugoslavia.
Serbian Cyrillic typewriters produced AFTER 1950's are generally a very rare finds. I'm not a typewriter collector and (hopefully) would never be (I have some other collections that occupy too much of my space), but since I'm visiting flee markets regularly for more than 20 years, I can tell you that I didn't see more than 5 examples of those, while I saw hundreds and hundreds of Latin Serbo-Croatian typewriters. In fact, I was 20 years old (born in 1976) when I first saw a Cyrillic typewriter in my life, and it was a pre-WWII design, kept on a shelve in my friends house. As a kid I even assumed that it is somehow impossible to make a Cyrillic typewriter, that was the only logical explanation for me for the fact that there aren't any of them around. Since mid of 1950's there was some decision that Cyrillic typewriters that existed so far would be replaced with Latin ones, so they were quickly relegated to basements and cellars, and never used since. Many people believe it was made deliberately in order do banish Cyrillic script and supposedly unify Yugoslavia further. So the production of new typewriters followed that, and I believe that out of all the production no more than 1-2% were Serbian Cyrillic (based on my experience). I've read some writers and authors complaining that they couldn't find a Cyrillic typewriter for their writing in any of Belgrade's stationaries, so they had to cling to their overused old ones.
You can adjust the type pressure by adjusting a lever under the hood.
Thanks, I know. I keep it on the second-lightest setting, which I find most comfortable. Even so, the action is a lot heavier than for example a Lettera 22.
@@hakonsoreide Interesting. Thank you. I just ordered the same model because i was told by a few dealers that it was a good machine for a soft touch.
Oh, and of course "diaresis" is pronounced die-E-ri-sis, not the way I accidentally said it. I thought it was wrong when I said it, but then I thought I'd look it up first rather than correcting myself as I wasn't 100% sure.
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Hi, nice video! I have the same typewriter and I have recently changed the ink, however the keys are no longer reaching the ribbon when I type. The ribbon doesn’t seem to move up to meet the key when I press a key - any advice? It used to work perfectly
Thanks. If the ribbon doesn't move up, there are three things to check: is it inserted correctly, is the ribbon selector set to the right setting, and lastly, did the ribbon vibrator accidentally get damaged or bent when you changed it. The last bit isn't likely, but it can happen.
On the Traveller, with the hood off, it's easy to see the entire mechanism that lifts it up when you press a key, so I'd have a look at it when pressing a key to see what happens, feeling for any resistance in it if you move it manually, and hopefully you'll find out where the problem is.
Hello! Any tips on how to fix the bell? It doesn’t make a sound anymore even though there are no parts missing, and still moves.
Thanks for watching, and thanks for your question. Mine actually doesn't ring out as consistently as it should either. Only when I slide the carriage manually, so it moves a bit faster, will the bell ring consistently, but I've not looked into that yet.
As much as I love the sound of a typewriter bell, I type too slowly to actually need the bell, and therefore I haven't tried to fix it yet.
I'll have a look at it some day soon and see if I can make it work consistently, though, and let you know if I find any possible ways of fixing it.
Hello I have a question. I also have a traveller de luxe but my line spacer isn't working. Often when I try to go to the next line nothing happens. I tried to adjust it, but it doesn't work for a long time. Maybe you have a solution?
I haven't had any problem with mine, and I am no expert in typewriter repair, so I'd only potentially be able to fix one in front of me if I could have a look to see what goes wrong.
Have you been able to narrow down whether the issue is the line spacer setting, the carriage return arm or with the ratchet system? What does and does not happen when you try advancing to the next line? I presume you can still advance manually by rotating the platen knob, and does it still have definite click stops?
Sir ..I can't find the button that makes space between a line and another ..
To get to the next line, there is no button, you push the lever sticking up on the left-hand side of the carriage and keep pushing until you have pushed the carriage all the way back to the left margin. The pushing will also rotate the platen forward to the next line.
How can you tell if the typewriter is fake?
If a typewriter has no typing mechanism, it is fake, but there's not much of a market for that as real typewriters are cheap and plentiful. Faux typewriters for decoration are more expensive than real ones, and they don't look real to you if you’ve seen a real one up close before.