Okay, I have the innards cleaned for this typewriter. I used mineral oils and so, so many q-tips but it doesn’t look horrible so I’ll take what I can get.
First up is this lame cream color to everything. I’m not looking to restore this and flip it, it is going to be one of my work horse typewriters so I want it to look like its mine. Cream is not my color scheme.
Hunter green is more my color. Kind of channeling my teenage hooligan days with all this spray painting though.
I got all the bits that I’m too dumb to take apart covered and now it kind of looks like a little parcel. This big problem is that its pretty chilly where I am and this paint will take forever to dry, that’s why this isn’t a two day thing.
I gave it two days to dry, thinking that would be enough and here is where I got to do the “learn part of the ” Live and Learn”.
If you apply clear coat to paint that is a little bit wet it does this gross, curdling, thing. I don’t know if you could tell from the cardboard here but I am not what one would call a “professional” at painting. Professionals have experience and training, I have a couple cans of spray paint and whatever the opposite of diffidence is. A kind of full send mentality that leads me to these learning situations.
Anyway, I sanded down the curdled parts and repainted over it.
Bless this mess.
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