Cleaning a 100-years-old Underwood Typewriter | Relaxing Timelapse

I cleaned and fixed a 100 years old Underwood n. 5 Italian edition.

00:00 - Intro
01:48 - Taking it apart
04:27 - Cleaning
10:22 - Minor fixing
10:49 - More (satisfying) cleaning
17:02 - The keyboard
19:45 - Shiny metal
22:38 - The carriage
25:09 - Final touches


tutorials:
This video is great (it was published after I had done this, but seems super useful): Typewriter 101: THE CLEANING GUIDE!
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Info on serial numbers: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewrit...

music:
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- Acoustic Breeze - Royalty Free Music from Bensound (https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free...)
- Into The Light - Oak Studios ([Background Music] Into The Light - C...)

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