![]() This machine is a lot messier than another Hermes 3000 I have (serial no. On the messy stuff, would you recommend using the compressed air canisters sold mainly for cleaning computer keyboards? And if not, any alternatives? Don't know if this was from a repair, or just dropped over and into the keys by mistake. Any thoughts?Īlso, when I first removed the base, a 2" long elastic band fell out, along with a couple of very dead flies, flower petals, and crazy amounts of dust, fluff and assorted speckly stuff. However, if I leave it, the case still won't lock. I'm now wondering whether to try bending the inner lip of the base back in so it will (theoretically) sit properly, or stop now in case it affects the repair I've just done. The front right corner of the base is still 'popped out' of the main body, as I was trying to go one step at a time to see which repair had what effect. Also, when I push the carraige over using the line space lever, it doesn't stay put, and often just returns immediately to the left-hand side. However, the carraige now seems to run a bit too freely, and doesn't always stop when I try to position it using the carraige movement button. Lots of fiddling and careful positioning with bent copper wire and long-nose pliers, but it paid off. The carraige now doesn't jam or scrape, and the type and space bars all work. ![]() I took the flat flange off, did my best to straighten out the slotted flange, replaced the flat flange, then the base. Because of the bent flange, the body was closer to the carraige than it should have been, and so was jamming/scraping (I theorised). Upside down again, and while checking noticed that the part of the main metal frame which ends in an angled flange with slotted holes was bent over by about 3/16", on the corner where the rack was jamming (this is the 90-degree flange which a screw connects to the 2 3/4" teardrop-shaped flat flange mentioned above, which in turn has another threaded hole, into which the main base screws fit). I took the base off again, turned the machine over carefully, and the carraige rack, instead of jamming, now scraped over the body. Then I replaced the base, turned it over, and the carraige did move, but the rack jammed on the right side of the body (just to the right of where 'SUISSE' is stamped on the carraige mechanism). ![]() I sat the typewriter upside down on a soft board, and removed the base (lifting it from the back, then sliding it sideways when almost vertical to avoid the space bar strips) then tightened the small screws attaching the flat metal elongated-teardrop-shape flanges to the main, chunky, metal frame - 2 of them were quite loose. Thanks for that pointer here's what I did.
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