MANUAL typewriter whores are like people who enjoy shifting the gears in their car by hand. Control freaks, all of them.

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Snowbum is an awesome old dude. I got some nice specialty tools from him a few months back and found lots of great info buried in his web pages.

https://bmwmotorcycletech.info/royal.jpg

I remember back in the early ‘70’s our office had 4 ‘secretaries’ in the typing pool and 3 of the ladies had modern IBM Selectric typewriters with the fancy spinning letter ball. Very futuristic. But one older lady still had a manual Royal that looks a lot like the one in the picture. Her fingers looked like small biceps.

All this proves one thing. I’m old as dirt.

Well I was about to begin my own upgrade project with a retrofitlab kit and some out of commission ebay headlights and the particlewave video as my go to reference for opening headlights. Bummed that its now gone.