1938 Royal DeLuxe Typewriter

Hi Kevin you are so knowledgeable about all the things you’ve collected. I was wondering what was the first thing you started collecting and why?

Kevin number one thing the thing that you are turning the typewriter on is exactly what my grandmother used to frost her cakes she keep a circular piece of cardboard that was the right size she put that on top take a piece of aluminum foil and make it larger turn that upside down and tape it to the bottom of that and then she could take the whole thing and it would still be clean. Sorry about the run on sentence my voice typing. Better Built the most new cars and much nicer looking. Now figure how old this is and see if any computer is running in this number of years. Stay safe my friend keep making great videos we send our best from Paris Illinois

Hey Kevin!
I recently found a same Royal deluxe type writer. It is my granny's typewriter. It was kept in attic for don't know how many decades.
I took it to a few type writer mech's but none agreed to restore it.
Now I have decided to restore it by myself, atleast repaint and polish.

So can you please help me with restoring this typewriter.

I want to know how to repaint it? Do I have to remove the outside panel? If YES then how do I remove it? Do have have to remove the platren also to remove the side panels?

It has glass keys and i don't have the right tool to remove them. Can you please help me with changing the Key's inside paper ?
. Thanks for any input.

Just picked one of these up for $20 at local antique shop. In pretty good condition, too, just needs a new ribbon, cleaned, and a few minor adjustments.

Great Review, and what a beautiful machine you own! I just found a model quite like this today at an antique store. It was in decent working condition, just needed some fixing. Currently I have it on a payment plan, can't wait until it's mine! 🥰

in Portuguêse we have to use some marks above some letters and this is anoying when typewritting.
example: á â ã à í é ê é o ó ô u ú ,

Typewritwers? Nicely reviewed. Well, I've never used one since I was a kid, (I loved to type on them). Now I have a small collection of old and new scientific calculators. (I require them in my profession). Since they are digital, you may not be interested! You could try slide rules. I would say I am both analog and digital.

Thank you for the excellent tour of this Royal DeLuxe. I just received this exact one that a friend came upon at a garage sale. He was given it for free. I am so excited as I will use it in my illustrated journal projects. It even came in it’s array case with keys. It is in beautiful hope. I ordered new ribbons.

I have this same machine from 1937 and it is my favorite manual typer! The glass topped keys are so delightful and so easy to tap the keys. I find the Silent Super and 1958 Royal Quiet Deluxe much harder to type on although they are delightful in their own way;)

K got one off craigslist for about $35, types really well just needed a new ribbon. Gave it to my dad for his birthday says he loves it a lot better than his old underwood no 5.

Thank you for posting this video. Last year a lady gifted me with her family's 1936 Royal De Luxe portable typewriter. Thanks to your video, now I know how to set the margins.

The tabulator key's linkage on my typewriter is functioning, at least as far as I can see its linkage is moving under the machine. The remainder of the linkage at the rear of the machine is hidden under the carriage assembly, so I will have to remove the carriage assembly in order to fix the tabulator mechanism.

Picked up the same typewriter yesterday, also 1938, non-op condition (escapement not tripping). I somehow accidentally fixed it when moving the carriage looking for the S/N. Maybe I released a lock? Seller thought it would never type again, kids these days, it’s not an iPhone. Only thing it seems to need is a ribbon. It definitely has a better typing feel than my Corona Standard (1937).

Monroe Model K…1922
House…1935
Monroe Model LA5…1930s, maybe early 1940s.
L.C. Smith & Corona shiny black Corona Standard…1937
Royal De Luxe…1938 with the same black craquelure paint. Mine is missing the touch control lever.

I believe this is a Model A, tab stops, 2 latches on the case, a bunch of other features. Mine is a Model A. The Model O was the base model.

Amazingly beautiful.

Nice machine! I just picked one up the other day, but it is not the deluxe model but it’s beautiful. Thank you for this video.

Beautiful typewriter. I just got a 1938 Royal Quiet. From what I gather about these machines, the Quiet and the De Luxe from the same time period are pretty much both the same!

A sound from an era gone by, lovely example of the Royal, imagine workinhg in a typing pool with a room full all typing away - Fabulous !!

This is SO COOL looking! It looks like IT MEANS BUSINESS and no one is gonna mess with it! 😎

Thank you so much for this lovely walk around. I am now confident in using my newly acquired royal! I am thrilled with this machine.

Just found one of these in my brothers closet . Beautiful condition. How did you get yours in such pristine condition?
Thank you for your video 🙂