Questions & Answers for: typewriter oil

...oil and then move the carrier by hand to see if it will free up. Be sure the typewriter is turned off. If cleaning and oiling the shaft doesn't work, the carrier motor is probably bad. Is there any ...

...oil on the large round rod running across the typewriter manually push the print head left and right a few times to see if it will loosen up. The problem is usually caused be drying oil you may ...

typewriter Carriage sometimes won't return to the left margin unless I turn it off and turn it back on. Lo and behold, some light oil on the stainless bars solved the problem. Thanks for the tip about

...morning the typewriter was doing the above. First look inside the typewriter for forgien objects and debris, Then put some libhe oil (WD40 works well) on the shaft that the print head slides on. ...

Cant move carriage lock lever on the olivetti lettera typewriter. it should slide from front to rear.Maybe it could use a drop of oil.I use Marvel mystery oil

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typewriter is beeping and will not do anything else....any solution? With the typewriter turned off can you move the carrier left to right with little pressure if it taks a lot of pressure try wiping ...

the keys on my old manual olympia typewriter keep getting stuck what can i do to resolve this. Do they need oiling or what? Assuming that your Typewriter is non electric spray WD40 on all the ...

...typewriter. The only way to get it to move out of this position is to hit the tab key. The first thing to try is to lubricate the silver rail that the carriage rides on. A few drops of a light oil ( ...

...oil, or several other things. These typewriter shops have mostly closed up and are out of business. If you wanted to try to do it yourself, you could try compressed air from an air hose, and some ...