People want their grandmother's typewriter to actually type again, and Gen Z buyers want a working machine rather than a shelf prop. Nobody wants to spend two years learning escapement timing. One shop in Illinois has a waiting list seventy people deep, and the parts pile is the interesting part.

A grocer loses about a hundred shopping carts a year and roughly thirty-five thousand dollars replacing them. What it does not want is a payroll employee fishing carts out of drainage ditches. One operator in Honolulu runs that route, and the second engine is better than the first.

People will replace almost anything before they replace the Bible they have been writing in the margins of since 1994. What they want is that specific block of paper to survive. What they absolutely do not want is to learn to strip a text block and sew it into leather.