The mineral spirits I buy in Virginia seems to be a more aggressive formulation than the gentle, forgiving mineral spirits I get in California. I cleaned up the sides of the affected type slugs with some steel wool. I also had a couple type slugs that had little corrosion burrs that caused them to stick in the typebar guide. Others (I think) were sticking in the key guide comb. Some keys were sticking in the sublever segment, and some were gummy at the clevis connections. The typebars were gummy not only in the segment but at many other tight pivot points. I searched my mind, but I don’t think I have ever come across as sticky a typewriter as this one. The escapement (and carriage rails, margins, shift lock, space bar) responded to a good cleaning with mineral spirits, but the typebars required a lot of work. There was so much orange, gummy residue in this S-C Silent-Super that I got from Ebay a couple weeks ago.
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