I still haven’t discovered whether this is a Belorussian or Urkrainian typewriter. Or maybe it’s got enough characters on the keyboard to be either of those and a Russian typewriter.

Wherever it came from, this typewriter’s put on a lot of miles, and it wasn’t the most solidly-made typewriter in the first place. It’s got a fairly solid chassis and the design appears to be simple, but quite a lot of the parts are stamped sheet steel that have reached a point in their career when they’re going to start to fatigue and break …

… such as the bracket that’s supposed to be holding this roller in place. It broke once already, many moons ago, and some very industrious tinkerer repaired it by soldering a piece of tin across the break, but the solder has failed and I’ll have to re-solder it or figure out another way to fix it, because it’s impossible to load paper in the machine without this roller, and if you can’t load paper into a typewriter it’s nothing more than an exotic paperweight.

Coolest thing I found while I was taking it apart: “Krirkoviz” scratched his name into the underside of the cover. Previous owner? The guy who repaired it?