1954 Smith-Corona Sterling Disassembly for Cleaning

In this video I partially disassemble a 1954 Smith-Corona Sterling typewriter in preparation for cleaning. (The cleaning will happen in a later video.) My goal is to remove as much of the non-metal (plastic, rubber, painted parts) as possible so that I can clean the machine with odorless mineral spirits, which will be good for the mechanism but bad for those non-metal parts. I'll clean the non-metal parts separately with appropriate cleaning agents. For the remaining non-metal parts that I can't easily remove (the keycaps and the paper bail rollers) I'll cover them carefully to avoid damage.

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Almost in F - Tranquillity by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

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