Frame repair

To reapir the frame on this machine I chose to drill and pin the breaks and use an industrial adhesive. The pins added support. Welding was not an option, as it would have destoryed the origional graphics and paint. Every part of the frame was tapered making the staging and drilling a very difficult task, both halves of the casting the holes has to be drilled inline to allow the pins to mate to both halves properly. in the end the holes were inline within about .005 inches (.127mm) allowing for a nice tight fit up pre glueing. Post drying there was no flex or bending on the frame, it is almost as strong as before, all that is left is the paint touchups, and then it is onto other portions of the rebuild!

Next up was cleaning and reinstalling all the keylevers, the space bar used was from a remington 2 and will still need to be modified to clear the shift key due to its slightly different shape. One of the shift keys was damaged and needed to be reproduced, to do that a keylever from a remington 6 was used. The keylever had the currect rise for the key height and was the correct material. First it was cut to legnth, then the old keystop and linkage was transfered over to the new keylever. Lastly the groove was cut that the linkage seats into. The spring for the keylever was also missing and copied as well.

The top plate and ribbon drive system were a fairly straight forward task, all the pieces were stripped down and cleaned and reassembled. so far to this point there is 13 hours in labor in the project.