If Left to my Self too long

Got this L.C. Smith typewriter, but the tension belt was snapped:


Tried to fix it with a bike brake cable:

But that didn't work.

So I took it apart today:









I started messing with it, and made a new friend:


And a creepy pet:


And that's that. I'll keep the pieces around for a while, but have the feeling that I'm going to cut off the keys to ebay 'em, send the rest of the parts to Max to sculpt.

I read a little today too. I trust y'all don't need a link to Blake.