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 Sunday, February 12, 2012
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Typing Insulators

The typewriter was patented on this day in 1714. Hundreds of years later electric models came in, then computers, printers, laptops and all sorts of hi-tech personal writing and printing innovations. But since day one man has always had the same problem: typewriters and keyboards move about when you use them and they’re noisy too. To help keep things put and to quiet your typing and printing down a bit, we bring words to quiet words cheaply. You can make an inexpensive pad that will quiet a typewriter or keyboard and keep it from scooting around your desktop with a foam-backed carpet remnant or sample. Just cut it to size and place it foam side down under anything you want to stay firmly and quietly in place. Works well under printers, VCR’s and other electronics too. So if you are tired of keys that shake, rattle and roll and stuff that vibrates and makes too much noise, you know what to do! And that’s the On The House tip for today...

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