Royal Typewriter Shift Alignment
If your capital letters are not perfectly aligned with your lowercase letters, and it’s not due to poor typing skills, then your shift stops are most likely out of alignment. If you own a Corona, or a Hermes, then you’re not going to die...but if you own a Royal, say your prayers and dig your grave. Royals are hard to work on. So this brief instructional (that nobody’s likely to read) will deal with adjusting the capital alignment on a basket shifted Royal Typewriter, and what better machine to use than a Royal 10. This desktop model is the standard of standards. Every other Royal has some variation of these presented mechanisms, so look closely. The basket shift on a Royal Typewriter consists of two stopping points. When you depress the shift, one of these stopping points prevents the basket from dropping lower than a certain point. Each machine might be slightly different, but in this case it was the top. I’m the photos, the mac...