Interesting Article on the Curta

[BobVA]

(12-14-2021 07:32 PM)Ren Wrote:  Thanks for sharing your find!
I also learned, that IF I ever get my hands on a Curta,
to NOT TAKE IT APART!
B^)

Excellent advice :-)

What apparently caught a lot of owners out was the hand-fitting of seemingly identical components. Correct reassembly required keeping the fitted parts together with their mates.

The good news is that they're pretty robust and don't typically *need* disassembly.

My Curta 2 was a refugee from a coal mining operation and didn't work when I got it. The "repair" was just removing the outer housing, flushing it with solvent to remove a couple of decades of coal dust then applying a little oil and it was back in service.