1959 Smith Corona Galaxie in Script (cursive)


This is the 1959 Galaxie.  Widely regarded as one of the most reliable Coronas along with the Silent series and the Classic 12.  This typewriter is one hunk of a machine, and it works fantastic.  It does tend to have a spacebar issue if mistreated, given the nature of the spacing mechanism, but hey...it's a good damn machine.  Let me cut to the chase.  It's Pica, with a cursive typeface.  Yep.  A gorgeous crisp cursive font.

Drool

Okay, so this machine was another snag from the magnificent Kai Razon, who shipped this poor beast to me in a very large box.  The spacebar didn't work, but the main thing I noticed right away is the sheer amount of times this thing has been dropped.  Not once, likely not twice.  Several times.  The case itself has two very substantial dents in it, and the rear hinge is partly damaged.  It closes with some cuss words and elbow grease alright, but it's not quick.  The machine was also bent up and dented, which as you can imagine hindered function.  It was so clean inside that it must've been dropped early on by some idiot.  Once the dents were out, I brush cleaned it and adjusted the space bar (which didn't work) and set to typing.  It types lightning fast, like any Smith Corona portable of this era.  There's a reason they're called the fastest portable typewriters in the world.  I mean, check this out: VIDEO :).    




Only takes a single color ribbon

I was so wrapped up in the Corona 3 and the Noiseless Standards, and two Royal Model P's and two Lettera 22s that I really didn't think to take enough photos of the process, beyond what I just showed you.  So here's a crash course.  

1. The platen comes out just like it does on any other corona portable.  You pull out the ratchet detent and flip open the right cover, then you use the platen release leaver to take it out.

2. Both covers on either side of the carriage flip open.

3. The bottom panel of the machine is removed via four screws.  The four screws on the edges remove the machine from the main shell.  The ribbon cover must come off first, and there are two black rails that hold the wheels in place.  Pull the cover open and undo the uncovered screws right inside and bend them in towards the machine.  Close the cover an pinch it inwards, it should kind of lift off.  The key bed, or the white plastic thingy slides backwards and lifts off.

4. The machine slides back and out.  The spacebar has two red rubber stoppers that control the spacer.  These are blocked on both the top and bottom to prevent them from traveling too far.  This is what regulates the spacing.  To far down and it releases the carriage, too far up and it doesn't space.

5. Only one color ribbons can be used in this machine.  It types in the center of a standard half inch ribbon.  The actual clicky mechanism in the machine frame is blocked off for the red setting, the frame is the same across machines, but modified for each model.  

6. When you put the white thing back on, the leavers for touch control and ribbon color selector have to push inside the slots in the keyboard controls.  A pain.

Okay, boring stuff is out of the way, let's look at more photos.








this was my listing.  3 people interested before I even listed it.
Only been an hour, seems like the hot little machine :)
Yeah, I made typos.  Suit me.


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