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Typewriter Repair Library

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Multi-Machine or General

Instrumentman 1 and C, NAVPERS 10194-B, Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1964
Royal and Smith Corona Standard and advanced adjustments applicable to others, Smith Corona, Royal, IBM typebar electric

Instrumentman 1 and C. NAVTRA 10194-C, Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1973
Electrics only, IBM Selectric 1 and perhaps overlap with 2, (70+ pages)

Instrumentman 3 and 2, NAVPERS 10193-A, Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1961
Only typewriter tools section, missing all the typewriter repair sections

Instrumentman 3 and 2, NAVPERS 10193, Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1951
Underwood S Master, Remington 17 (and similar), Royal KMM KMG & Similar, Smith Corona Super Speed

Technical Manual TM 37-305: Typewriter Maintenance, War Department, 1944
Remington Rand Standard (40s), Royal KMM/KMG, Underwood Standard (40s), Woodstock (later versions), L.C. Smith standard

Mechanical Devices of the Typewriter, Nicholson, R. T., 1920
Yost No. 20 & 15, Remington No. 10 & 11, Underwood No. 5, Monarch No. 3, Oliver (Batwing) No. 9, Barlock No. 14, Empire No. 1 & 2, Royal No. 10 split window, L.C. Smith No. 8, Smith Premiere No.10

Textbook on Typewriter Repair: The only Written Authority on Typewriter Construction and Repairing, Frierson, H.C., 1912
Underwood, Royal Standard, Smith Premiere (blind & visible No. 10-11), Remington (blind & No. 10-11), Oliver No. 3-5, L.C. Smith, Monarch Visible, Fox

The Classic Typewriter Page, Richard Polt, ~2026

Machine Specific

Royal Portable Typewriter: How to Make Adjustments and Minor Repairs, Royal Typewriter Company, 1926
Royal (portable) ‘P’

The Classic Typewriter Page, Richard Polt, ~2026

Old Bob’s Old Typewriters Manuals and Repair Guides, Old Bob?, ~2021

Title[link], Author, Date
Machine 1, 2,

 

Improve Fusion360 with Add-Ins – 1 – SketchTools

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I am designing a tool with a belt loop that needs to be adjustable in length. Much to my irritation, the Inspect tool will only add a couple objects, and it won’t chain lines.

Luckily, Fusion360 has a great feature that I almost never hear about: Add-Ins and an App Store. There are a number of great tools that help with missing and specialist features. Many of them are free like this one.

SketchTools was the one that helped with my belt perimeter problem. One click and it chained the faces automatically. Do you want to know how I was doing this before? I made a spreadsheet and measured each segment every time (not fun). It lists the individual lengths and offers a selection tool to override the chain. I did notice that I can’t vertically resize the window to see the whole list at once; instead I have to scroll.

This isn’t even the main feature of the SketchTools add-in, but it was a boon to my design process. Its other features deal with the source of sketch planes, projected geometry and their links. Unfortunately, it’s only available for Windows due to the installer. The menu is moved to Design -> Tools in the new UI.

Links:

SketchTools in Autodesk App Store

SketchTools Documentation

SketchTools Developer Page

Thanks to Manfred Steinbach for creating this handy add-in and providing it for free! There are a number of useful Fusion360 articles written on his site: link to Google Translate German to English version of his page.