Praxis of Fixing a Praxis - Part 1
If I had a nickel for every electric desktop machine that I have bought that doesn't work practically at all, I would have 3 nickels. If you include ones that don't fully work as they were designed to, you'd boost that total up to 5 nickels, a whole quarter. I don't have a single desktop electric that still works the way it was meant to like 50 years ago. So much for luck of the Irish, right? Anyway, I have recently come into possession of an Olivetti-Underwood Praxis 48, constructed in Olivetti's home factory in Ivrea, and the 3rd in the series of broken desk electrics. I simply couldn't refuse her; she was sitting at the back of the flea market waiting for me, and when I approached, the seller, who, mind you, I have already bought two machines off of, immediately said that is was only $5. Five United States dollars. There was no way I could refuse that offer, even if the machine was totally unsalvageable. The modernist design of thi...
