Funny thing is, I've taken a couple of manual typewriters apart many years ago, but I don't remember ever getting a hold of an electric until now. I wonder if this is a fluke, or if they will become more common as offices that rarely get cleaned up begin to throw out old equipment.
This thing was pretty nasty when I found it, so I had to clean it up a little before I started to tear it down. The keyboard cover served it's purpose rather well, since the keys themeselves stayed remarkably clean.
The ribbon cartridge had some cool little pieces in it, plus the outer case had a texture pattern that might make its way into some future project.
The keyboard is its own unit, unlike in a manual typewriter.
The keys are attached to the top of the unit instead of the bottom, like with computer keyboards.
Popping all those keys off was a pain in the ass.
The head or cassette or whatever it's called. Not many removable parts here.
I photographed the parts in two sections. The first group includes all the parts with the exceptions of the keys and the little post theings that held the keys in. Just these would be a fairly decent parts haul...
...but these are an added bonus. I have no idea what I'll do with most of them, and to be honest, i've purged excess identical keys from my collection of crap before to make room for less repetitive crap, but on the other hand it's nice to have a lot of redundant parts to test paints or adhesives on, or to practice with new tools. I'm not exactly a fan of Joseph Stalin, but he summed up my feelings on keyboard keys rather well when he said "Quantity has a quality all its own."
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