Selling a close to mint condition, fully restored 1969 Olympia SM-9 manual typewriter. I fancied myself a writer during a few years back and bought this from typewritertechs.com. I hasn't been used much by me. This is a truly restored vintage, manual typewriter. Not just a cleaned up one from an estate or garage sale. See the list below for all the steps that have been taken to restore this typewriter. Comes with original case, original cleaning/maintenance tools, and original manual! Willing to negotiate on price.
1) The typewriter is completely taken apart. the mechanism is ultrasonically cleaned to make it like new. all painted surfaces are hand cleaned and polished. damaged or worn parts are replaced with new, or identical parts.
2) new platen----extremely important for type quality
3) new infeed and outfeed rollers
4) new feet
5) new high use springs
6) new return carriage line (drawstring)
7) new ribbon
8) new insulation
9) new body grommets
10) completely disassembled and ultrasonic cleaned
11) carriage removed and rebuilt
12) escapement is removed and rebuilt
13) type slugs and arms cleaned
14) ribbon vibrator, reverse, color selector cleaned /adjusted
15) character alignment adjusted
16) backspace, margin and tab functions adjusted
17) line spacing adjusted
18) case cleaned inside and out --- lock adjusted