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Thursday, 14 November 2013

Fly in the Alignment and Hand of God: The Reverend Ted Lifts Lettera 82 Rating

*It's 7952 and a half miles, or 12,803.5 kilometres, from Mesa, Arizona, to Canberra, Australia, as the fly flies.
**'Hand of God' is what cost England the 1986 World Cup. But then Maradona is Argentinian, not Brazilian!

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11 comments:

  1. Miguel Chávez14 November 2013 at 15:09

    Perhaps that's what the fly was for... a clever replacement of a missing washer somewhere?

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  2. Robert Messenger14 November 2013 at 15:14

    OMG, Miguel! I think you've got it. When I put it all back together agaoin, there was a spare washer!

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  3. Dwayne F.14 November 2013 at 16:01

    And I thought the first entry was funny! The fly is obviously key to making this thing work.

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  4. Robert Messenger14 November 2013 at 16:16

    Dwayne, I've done as Miguel suggested, put the fly (and the washer) back in and added another scan to the post - the typing is now almost perfect!

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  5. Miguel Chávez14 November 2013 at 16:27

    Nice work debugging (literally!) this typewriter, Robert! It types a lot better now!

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  6. Scott K14 November 2013 at 20:36

    AH!
    The baby's adjustment system is diabolical, and has been used on every model since the start. to quote the film version of Gollum... "I hates it! I hates it!"

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  7. Bill M14 November 2013 at 21:35

    Truly debugging a typewriter.

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  8. Ted15 November 2013 at 03:05

    heh, Debugging indeed! You never know what you'll find buried in the guts of a machine. I found a stack of credit cards hidden in the guts of an SCM Sterling once, and I remember Richard Polt finding a whole mud wasp's nest inside a typer. :D

    Too bad the engine transplant didn't pan out - that really is a nicely-colored shell. (:

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  9. shordzi15 November 2013 at 17:28

    I beg to disagree with your hard judgement on the Olivetti 82 - post follows, as I am off to Cologne now.

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  10. John15 November 2013 at 23:32

    Hi Rob,
    I would love to get my hands on that Olivetti 82, just for an hour or so, it would be a different machine.

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  11. Robert Messenger16 November 2013 at 08:59

    Thank you John but it's a much different machine already and doesn't need a thing done to it.

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