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Of course buying and swapping a part is something a teenager can do easily. I'm talking about making the parts myself, with consumer-level tools, because unless
by l0b0 5y ago
Of course buying and swapping a part is something a teenager can do easily. I'm talking about making the parts myself, with consumer-level tools, because unless something like this gets an absolutely gigantic following or backing there's zero chance there'll be spare parts easily available in 10+ years, never mind 50.
- coldtea 5y agoMost parts are trivial to make, and the tools required are in a million or so garages and amateur woodworking and mechanics "shops" across of the US. People make their own replacement hot rod and car parts for Pete's sake, now typewriter parts? It's not like a classic (non electric) typewriter is some wonder of engineering. You don't even need a circuit printed, or anything that has to be made in a factory. You can buy a dirt cheap 3D printer for some kind of replacement parts, bend, twist, or manually make a mold and poor metal into it for others, soldier or power glue for others yet, and so on... (And in regular life, you also have the option to salvage a similar model or even a different one with compatible parts and McGyever a solution trivially).