deskthority

that is a cherry M9 switch. I've seen TA and Royal typewriters use them like that but never a wheelwriter before

Keen observation there, since as it turns out these typewriters were actually made by TA Royal!

According to the info I could find, the 6715 uses the internals of the Gabriele 9009 ...

It has been forever since I have had this thing apart. I do not remember how I took that off.


That's fine, about 15 minutes later I ended up figuring out that what looked like rivets on the platen rod were actually small hex screws.

I do have another question though, how were you able to ...

How did you take apart the typewriter? I inherited one of these recently and I quite like it, but I need to do some work inside and can't seem to figure out how to remove the platen knobs.