1956 Remington Quiet-Riter #QR2617911
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Ted Snyder (tricosene)
Created: 03-28-2026 at 11:26AM
Last Edit: 03-28-2026 at 11:26AM
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Description:
“The world’s most advanced personal typewriter” – from the Quiet-Riter instruction manual
Features: pica, segment shift.
I found this at a garage sale. It was my first typewriter since the early 1990s.
This Quiet-Riter has taken me a long time to learn to appreciate. Typing on it originally struck me as uninspired. A shame, really, since the machine itself is a beauty, both with its curves and with the green keys. But, finally, I have started to enjoy typing on it.
What changed? I cleaned the escapement, the dogs, and the universal bar, and I think that livened it up. I also tried out different tensions with the touch regulator. Initially, I had moved it to the lightest setting. This didn’t work for me, I found out. It hides the feel of the typewriter, that tactile experience that makes typing so rewarding. Also, I type a little too fast for the lightest setting and my typebars would frequently get caught on each other. At the higher settings, though, I can feel the typewriter actuating with each key press, and this feels much more enjoyable. I’m not sure which setting will be my favorite. The highest gives me a greater feel for the mechanism, but it requires significantly more force to push the keys. The setting below that lessens the feel of the typewriter, as well as the force needed to type. I don’t know yet if it lessens the feel too much.
As much as I have started to enjoy its feel more, it still doesn’t have the same feel for me that a Hermes 2000 or a Royal KMG has.
Repairs
The margin release is stuck and lets the carriage overshoot the right margin. I’ve tried cleaning the parts to no avail. I’m not sure if something might be bent deeper inside or if I just haven’t cleaned it enough.
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Hunter: Ted Snyder (tricosene)
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Back in high school, my dad would bring home one of the office typewriters, a Brother daisy wheel with a built-in word processor, for me to use. That might be my first typewriter. I don't know what happened to it. I bought a Cannon Starwriter afterwards to take to college. Fast forward to 2025, and I started wondering if there could be benefits of using a typewriter in my writing routines.
Little did I know that typewriters have the ability to reproduce. A Remington Quiet Riter led to a Royal KMG and Underwood De Luxe Leader pair, and the process continued. Now I have a dozen.
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