I just re-inked a ribbon for my Marxwriter, but it doesn't print evenly 😭.

I repurposed a miscellaneous ribbon, removed it from the original spools, and re-inked it with a sponge soaked in stamp ink, while re-winding it in the Marxwriter's spools. Perhaps I'll try again later, but for now this is good enough.

#typewriter

@thalia this got me going down the ol google rabbit hole and apparently reinking typewriter ribbons is a surprisingly difficult problem
@gloriouscow and a surprisingly annoying one. I'm not wanting to repeat this for a while, but I might need to for my Teletype Model 43s.
@thalia WD-40 keeps getting mentioned a lot, but it sounds like its temporary at best
@gloriouscow I've also seen isopropyl alcohol mentioned too. I tried it for a small section, but it didn't work so well.

@thalia i wonder if cyclopentasiloxane would work

everyone has a bottle of that around right?