by Richard Polt | Mar 25, 2023 | Grants
Click on the top two images for more on the Grants 707 and 737.The typewriter was a bit yellowed.Painting it with hair-salon peroxide …Wrap it in plastic to slow down evaporation:Let it sit in the sun for a couple of hours:Peroxide also bleaches clothes and...
by Richard Polt | Jan 17, 2022 | Grants
It was over a decade ago that I last saw a Grants 737 in person—a thrift-store find. Now a customer of Urban Legend Typewriters has brought in one that needs cleaning. This typewriter was made in Japan by Nakajima for Grants stores in the 1970s. (For more information,...
by Richard Polt | Mar 12, 2015 | electric, Grants
Here you see the gullwing ribbon covers (also found on some Vosses): (Clarification: the ’74 Christmas season and a month thereafter.) The spinning shaft with three flanges is the horizontal piece in focus in this photo (obviously, the typewriter...
