Rotometals
Wes
Anyone know a source in Michigan, Indiana or Ohio that sells the same? I'm tired of
scrounging, I just buy clean alloy and recycle my bullet traps.
Wes
--
The only thing Obama has fixed is Carter's reputation.
Steve Lusardi
won't regret it. The bullets will typically cast about 8% lighter than pure lead. They can be used to 1800FPS without gas checks
and not cause barrel leading. If I remember correctly, lead is around 9 or 10 on the Brinnel scale and Linotype is about 28/29,
which is considerably harder. Linotype bullets are much better penetrators and do not deflect off window glass like lead bullets
do. Don't ask how I know that.
Steve
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Gunner Asch
<steve...@lusardi.de> wrote:
>Look for Linotype, it makes brilliant bullets. Check with newspaper printers and ask them how they dispose of their waste, you
>won't regret it. The bullets will typically cast about 8% lighter than pure lead. They can be used to 1800FPS without gas checks
>and not cause barrel leading. If I remember correctly, lead is around 9 or 10 on the Brinnel scale and Linotype is about 28/29,
>which is considerably harder. Linotype bullets are much better penetrators and do not deflect off window glass like lead bullets
>do. Don't ask how I know that.
>Steve
And if you cast wheelweight bullets and dump them directly into a 5
gallon bucket filled with water, then size and lube them within a day or
so..within the next 7-10 days..they will harden up to around Bn 30 and
stay that way for up to 4 yrs..after which they will slowly soften back
down to 13-15
Gunner
>
>"Wes" <clu...@lycos.com> wrote in message news:nbL5n.97448$dl4....@en-nntp-03.dc1.easynews.com...
>> One supplier that sells casting lead and alloys is Rotometals. They are in California.
>>
>> Anyone know a source in Michigan, Indiana or Ohio that sells the same? I'm tired of
>> scrounging, I just buy clean alloy and recycle my bullet traps.
>>
>> Wes
>> --
>>
>> The only thing Obama has fixed is Carter's reputation.
>>
The current Democratic party has lost its ideological basis for
existence.
- It is NOT fiscally responsible.
- It is NOT ethically honorable.
- It has started wars based on lies.
- It does not support the well-being of americans - only billionaires.
- It has suppresed constitutional guaranteed liberties.
- It has foisted a liar as president upon America.
- It has violated US national sovereignty in trade treaties.
- It has refused to enforce the national borders.
...It no longer has valid reasons to exist.
Lorad474
pyotr filipivich
about Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:11:29 -0800 did write/type or cause to
appear in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
>On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:18:55 +0100, "Steve Lusardi"
><steve...@lusardi.de> wrote:
>
>>Look for Linotype, it makes brilliant bullets. Check with newspaper printers and ask them how they dispose of their waste, you
>>won't regret it. The bullets will typically cast about 8% lighter than pure lead. They can be used to 1800FPS without gas checks
>>and not cause barrel leading. If I remember correctly, lead is around 9 or 10 on the Brinnel scale and Linotype is about 28/29,
>>which is considerably harder. Linotype bullets are much better penetrators and do not deflect off window glass like lead bullets
>>do. Don't ask how I know that.
>>Steve
>
>And if you cast wheelweight bullets and dump them directly into a 5
>gallon bucket filled with water,
I take it, you do this hot, as in right out of the mold?
> then size and lube them within a day or
>so..within the next 7-10 days..they will harden up to around Bn 30 and
>stay that way for up to 4 yrs..after which they will slowly soften back
>down to 13-15
-
pyotr filipivich
We will drink no whiskey before its nine.
It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!
Ignoramus29895
brought them from a die casting foundry. Anyone needs them, I will
sell them cheaply.
They look kind of like a huge spoon with holes drilled in it.
Most I have are about 5" in diameter, and I have one bigger one.
i
Buerste
"Steve Lusardi" <steve...@lusardi.de> wrote in message
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> Look for Linotype, it makes brilliant bullets. Check with newspaper
> printers and ask them how they dispose of their waste, you won't regret
> it. The bullets will typically cast about 8% lighter than pure lead. They
> can be used to 1800FPS without gas checks and not cause barrel leading. If
> I remember correctly, lead is around 9 or 10 on the Brinnel scale and
> Linotype is about 28/29, which is considerably harder. Linotype bullets
> are much better penetrators and do not deflect off window glass like lead
> bullets do. Don't ask how I know that.
> Steve
>
Read this interesting article.
http://www.lasc.us/FryxellCBAlloyObturation.htm
The more I cast, the more I learn.
Buerste
You can get clean WW alloy in ingots on Ebay for about $1/lb delivered.
Buerste
"pyotr filipivich" <ph...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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You can heat treat in an oven.
http://www.lasc.us/HeatTreat.htm
Pete C.
Steve Lusardi wrote:
>
> Look for Linotype, it makes brilliant bullets. Check with newspaper printers and ask them how they dispose of their waste, you
> won't regret it. The bullets will typically cast about 8% lighter than pure lead. They can be used to 1800FPS without gas checks
> and not cause barrel leading. If I remember correctly, lead is around 9 or 10 on the Brinnel scale and Linotype is about 28/29,
> which is considerably harder. Linotype bullets are much better penetrators and do not deflect off window glass like lead bullets
> do. Don't ask how I know that.
> Steve
>
I've been out of the printing biz for a decade or two, but does anyone
use Linotype anymore? Certainly no newspaper I knew of 20 years ago did,
they all use offset web presses with AL plates. The only place using
Linotype back then was a tiny shop that mostly did numbering and other
specialty stuff.
Ed Huntress
"Pete C." <aux3....@snet.net> wrote in message
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I doubt if there is a working Linotype machine in most states in the
country. I don't know of a single magazine that uses it for anything; the
last newspaper I knew of that used it was over 20 years ago.
The offset and rotogravure presses had plates that were burned from
hard-type originals for a long while, so Linotype was still around, to make
the "hot type" masters. But that's all been converted to "cold type" --
computer-generated galleys. And now, most volume printing is done without
any galleys at all. It's "direct to plate" computer imaging.
If someone still has a source of Linotype metal, I'd like to know where it's
coming from.
--
Ed Huntress
Gunner Asch
<ph...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>Let the Record show that Gunner Asch <gun...@lightspeed.net> on or
>about Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:11:29 -0800 did write/type or cause to
>appear in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
>>On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:18:55 +0100, "Steve Lusardi"
>><steve...@lusardi.de> wrote:
>>
>>>Look for Linotype, it makes brilliant bullets. Check with newspaper printers and ask them how they dispose of their waste, you
>>>won't regret it. The bullets will typically cast about 8% lighter than pure lead. They can be used to 1800FPS without gas checks
>>>and not cause barrel leading. If I remember correctly, lead is around 9 or 10 on the Brinnel scale and Linotype is about 28/29,
>>>which is considerably harder. Linotype bullets are much better penetrators and do not deflect off window glass like lead bullets
>>>do. Don't ask how I know that.
>>>Steve
>>
>>And if you cast wheelweight bullets and dump them directly into a 5
>>gallon bucket filled with water,
>
> I take it, you do this hot, as in right out of the mold?
Ayup. Knock, flip, Splish!!
>
>> then size and lube them within a day or
>>so..within the next 7-10 days..they will harden up to around Bn 30 and
>>stay that way for up to 4 yrs..after which they will slowly soften back
>>down to 13-15
>-
>pyotr filipivich
>We will drink no whiskey before its nine.
>It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!
The current Democratic party has lost its ideological basis for
Flash
Check. Drop them hot, right out of the mold into ice-cold water.
Flash
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cavelamb
cavelamb
Uhm, never mind.
I found several myself...
Flash
http://www.theantimonyman.com/index.htm
He is in ARIDZONA, though.
Flash
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Flash
Flash
http://www.atlasmetal.com/ Denver, CO
http://www.go4worldbusiness.com/leads/leaddetails.asp?objid=2967883
http://www.alibaba.com/member/ca105667177/productlist.html
http://www.metalico.com/contact.html Granite City, IL
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Bill McKee
"Ed Huntress" <hunt...@optonline.net> wrote in message
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A couple of companies I worked with still used Linotype. Said it was easier
/ cheaper and better for small changes in books they printed each year.
They printed tax guides as one part of their product line and lots of pages
rarely changed. Somewhere I still have my name cast in a linotype machine
there. But as to metal work, they are the bomb.
Ed Huntress
"Bill McKee" <bmckee...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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Man, there's somebody who doesn't believe in new technology. <g> Are they
printing the books on letterpress? Or are they using the Linotype to make
galleys for offset printing?
If it's the latter, here's a secret you might pass on to them: Any one of us
can do exactly the same thing, and produce the same results, with a home
computer and a decent laser printer today. No loss of quality. No loss of
anything.
If, on the other hand, they're printing by letterpress, then holy hell...I
can't imagine how it's easier or cheaper. Letterpresses are used today for
things like fancy invitations and wedding announcements. And a few hobbyists
have them, but they set type by hand, rather than use Linotype. A Linotype
machine is about the size of three refrigerators and looks like the giant
insect from "Alien."
The fuzzy serifs do have a kind of nostalgic quality, though. <g>
--
Ed Huntress
Buerste
"cavelamb" <cave...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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I understand, it's a gut reaction to doubt EVERYTHING I say. I make one of
my engineers write on a dedicated calendar every time we argue and who was
proven right. I'm ahead...by a LOT and yet, he still doubts me.
pyotr filipivich
appear in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
>
>>>gallon bucket filled with water,
>>
>> I take it, you do this hot, as in right out of the mold?
>
>Ayup. Knock, flip, Splish!!
Oh, that's fun. I messed about with melting lead on the kitchen
stove (gas), and casting molds of license plates. Fun. Then my
younger brother tried it, didn't get the mold quite dry - pop, splat,
and he spilled the rest of the lead on the floor. No injuries (he was
in bare feet and shorts) but we found a neat way to take care of waxy
buildup.
We left some interesting burned places in those quarters when we
PCSed.
Wes
>> Uhm, never mind.
>> I found several myself...
>
>I understand, it's a gut reaction to doubt EVERYTHING I say. I make one of
>my engineers write on a dedicated calendar every time we argue and who was
>proven right. I'm ahead...by a LOT and yet, he still doubts me.
Being willing to argue one's point is not a bad thing. The guy that placidly goes with
what you say likely didn't really understand what you were telling him. I get nervous
when I get too quick agreement. Sometimes that is the prelude to blowing me off or
totally misinterpreting my instructions.
The arguer might not really understand you but in the exchange, there is going to be a
real hashing out of the matter at hand. At least you know he was thinking about the
subject at hand.
Wes
--
"Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect
government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home
in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller
Bill McKee
No, they have banks of pages in linotype. So if there is only a 1 or 2 line
change in a chapter, easy to change, and great print. But if they have to
change a whole chapter then they use other than the Linotype. But the
Linotype produces the same pages for years with very good quality. And
these are expensive books. They may have changed now, but in 1990, they
said it was much cheaper and better with the linotype. The use offset
printing.
Ed Huntress
Hmm. We're not communicating. d8-) However, it's a side issue, so I won't
belabor it.
My guess is that you're talking about hand-setting type, not Linotype.
Linotype machines are BIG, expensive suckers used for setting large masses
of type quickly -- pages and pages. It has a keyboard and it mechanically
drops type into slots, making a hell of a racket.
Hand-setting is done in "sticks," something I did in high school, when I
worked one summer for an old-fashioned printer called Princeton
Photoprocess. It produces the same end result as Linotype, but it's more
appropriate for smaller jobs, up to a few hundred words. No equipment is
needed -- it's all labor, but it's trivial for just a line or two of type.
In any case, any Linotype metal that's available today must be from
someone's ancient hoard, or freshly alloyed to the old Linotype standard
alloy. That's more likely.
--
Ed Huntress
Doug White
My cousin runs a one-man print shop on Cape Cod that specializes in odd
jobs that other printers won't (or can't) handle. Things like
sequentially numbered tickets. He still has a Linotype machine, but he
seldom has a job that makes it worth firing up. He's trying to retire,
but hasn't found any takers.
Doug White
T.Alan Kraus
bullets lead the barrel less.
Ed Huntress
"Doug White" <gwh...@alum.mit.edu> wrote in message
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Selling a Linotype machine today is about like trying to sell a numerically
controlled lathe that uses pneumatic logic. d8-)
--
Ed Huntress
Bill McKee
The Linotype machine casts the column of type. Yes they hand set the type
into a large frame. They said it was cheaper than redoing the page and
remaking the whole printing web (I think that is what it is called). I
designed the disk controllers for the Vax computer systems they used. And
as to mechanical, Linotype machines are fantastic. The difference in width
of each character plate allowing the machine to sort the chacter back into
the proper slot.
Ed Huntress
They certainly are masterful mechanical devices. That difference in letter
width, and the kerning (letterspacing) adjustments are amazing. To me,
they're like giant Curta Calculators -- a zenith of mechanical art, just
before it became obsolete. <g>
There used to be thousands of them around. We had six of the Linotype-Hell
Model 6's at a secondary office of McGraw-Hill when I was hired there
(1973). But before I actually started, a month later, they had been moved
into the warehouse, replaced by a new Wang typesetting system that ran on a
minicomputer with around 15 terminals.
In New York, where they published 20 of our 26 magazines, they must have had
dozens of them. I transferred there a few years later and they were all
gone, replaced by a fancy computer typesetting system. Today, I could do the
same work with a dozen decent typists working at PCs.
However, they don't even bother with typists anymore. Writers write on PCs;
editors edit the file; the artists lay out the page and the files go
straight to the printer. But they don't print out the pages, except for
proofreading. They don't even make film. They go straight to printing plates
from the computer files.
And it's all pretty cheap.
--
Ed Huntress
Bill McKee
This company printed a new tax guide for Accountants and lawyers every year.
90% of the book was the same, so they said it was cheaper with the linotype.
They had used some of the same frames for years with no changes.
axolotl
> They certainly are masterful mechanical devices.
You can see them again on your next trip south.
http://www.thebmi.org/index.cfm/cID/1286?CFID=8076196&CFTOKEN=15611222
Kevin Gallimore
Bill Noble
"Buerste" <bue...@wowway.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Steve Lusardi" <steve...@lusardi.de> wrote in message
> news:hj830j$elv$02$1...@news.t-online.com...
>> Look for Linotype, it makes brilliant bullets. Check with newspaper
>> printers and ask them how they dispose of their waste, you won't regret
>> it. The bullets will typically cast about 8% lighter than pure lead. They
>> can be used to 1800FPS without gas checks and not cause barrel leading.
>> If I remember correctly, lead is around 9 or 10 on the Brinnel scale and
>> Linotype is about 28/29, which is considerably harder. Linotype bullets
>> are much better penetrators and do not deflect off window glass like lead
>> bullets do. Don't ask how I know that.
>> Steve
>>
>
I have a friend still trying to get rid of a goodly pile of linotype and
monotype material - contact me if interested (remember, don't reply here,
get my email off my web page, wbnoble.com
Gunner Asch
Yes!
Emailed!!
Gunner
Doug White
He's trying to sell the whole business, and the Linotype machine is just
a part of the deal. Unless he can find a museum that wants it, it's
probably going to get scrapped. There's LOT of metal in one of those
things. Most of his gear is museum stuff anyway.
Doug White
Ed Huntress
Like old machine tools, Linotypes and other old printing equipment have a
hobby/museum following. A publishing consultant I worked with years ago
travelled all over the world collecting sets of antique type, and he had a
little flat-bed press that he used to make replicas of old printing,
hand-setting the type. Apparently he was part of an international hobby
group that was very serious about it.
However, there were a LOT of Linotype machines around, and lots of them are
sitting in warehouses now, or they've been scrapped. The new technologies
swept through the industry like a tsunami -- something like the way that
wire EDM stood the diemaking business on its head, and at about the same
time: the mid-'70s. Finding a buyer for that old printing equipment must be
tough.
It's not something that artists would pick up, the way they bought up
lithographers' stones or engraving equipment when they became obsolete.
--
Ed Huntress
Bruce L. Bergman
wrote:
>Steve Lusardi wrote:
>> Look for Linotype, it makes brilliant bullets. Check with newspaper printers and ask them how they dispose of their waste, you
>> won't regret it. The bullets will typically cast about 8% lighter than pure lead. They can be used to 1800FPS without gas checks
>> and not cause barrel leading. If I remember correctly, lead is around 9 or 10 on the Brinnel scale and Linotype is about 28/29,
>> which is considerably harder. Linotype bullets are much better penetrators and do not deflect off window glass like lead bullets
>> do. Don't ask how I know that.
>
>I've been out of the printing biz for a decade or two, but does anyone
>use Linotype anymore? Certainly no newspaper I knew of 20 years ago did,
>they all use offset web presses with AL plates. The only place using
>Linotype back then was a tiny shop that mostly did numbering and other
>specialty stuff.
Actually, yes - Go into any good rubber stamp shop that still does
lots of work, and you'll find a motley assortment of Linotype,
Monotype and Ludlow (Headline sized type - DEWEY BEATS TRUMAN)
machines and every font that the owner can find.
When you make the Bakelite matrice for the stamp the heat distorts
the type metal, so regular movable type goes to heck in a few uses.
Linotype is perfect - you use it once to make a matrice (maybe twice
if you blow the first one) and you can make a hundred stamps from that
one matrice.
Then you throw the used and heat distorted Linotype slug back into
the melt furnace pot for reuse.
If you only make one or a few of a certain stamp, ask the shop if
you can have the matrice too just in case. When the stamp wears out,
you can send the matrice back to get an exact duplicate.
And the photo-resist style plastic stamps flat out don't hold up to
severe service like the old stuff.
--<< Bruce >>--
Wes
>I doubt if there is a working Linotype machine in most states in the
>country. I don't know of a single magazine that uses it for anything; the
>last newspaper I knew of that used it was over 20 years ago.
>
Back around 1972 or so, I could have learned how to be a linotype operator. My school
system had one and had a course on it. I took typing instead. I figured computers were
in my future and typing would be a head start. Plan worked for me for many years.
Ed Huntress
> "Ed Huntress" <hunt...@optonline.net> wrote:
>
>>I doubt if there is a working Linotype machine in most states in the
>>country. I don't know of a single magazine that uses it for anything; the
>>last newspaper I knew of that used it was over 20 years ago.
>>
>
> Back around 1972 or so, I could have learned how to be a linotype
> operator. My school
> system had one and had a course on it. I took typing instead. I figured
> computers were
> in my future and typing would be a head start. Plan worked for me for
> many years.
>
> Wes
That was a good move. You would have learned the skill just in time to give
demonstrations at your local museum. <g>
I knew quite a few typesetters, even the digital kind, who found themselves
out of work with absolutely no prospects. There were waves of them: around
1975, and again around 1985. The last one I knew of worked around 1993.
Of course, that happened to many printing- and publishing-industry jobs over
the same period.
--
Ed Huntress
Przemek Klosowski
> I doubt if there is a working Linotype machine in most states in the
> country. I don't know of a single magazine that uses it for anything;
> the last newspaper I knew of that used it was over 20 years ago.
>
There's one in the Baltimore Museum of Industry (geez, R.C.M content).
A retired guy who demonstrates it worked on it in a newspaper, and told
me that they replaced them in the 70s.
Ed Huntress
"Przemek Klosowski" <prz...@tux.dot.org> wrote in message
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Yep, someone else posted a note about that one in the Baltimore museum. I'm
tempted to stop in there.
And, yes, most of them disappeared in the '70s. I mentioned here before that
I went to work for McGraw-Hill Publications Co. in '74. I had been hired a
couple of months earlier and they had six Linotype machines operating in a
secondary office. When I started work they had all been moved to the
warehouse, replaced by a Wang computerized phototype ("cold type") system.
That was for promotions and mail solicitations for 26 magazines and
newsletters. The publications themselves were typeset on a much fancier
computerized typesetting system, which replaced another, larger bunch of
Linotypes at about the same time, or slightly earlier. They also handled the
typesetting for McGraw-Hill books.
Those Linotypes and the multi-million-dollar phototype systems can now be
replaced with a desktop PC and a high-quality laser printer. In fact,
though, the whole system has gone away in most publishing houses. The
writers write on computers; the editors edit on computers; the art directors
compose pages on computers; and the output is reproduced directly onto the
printing plates. Along the way they'll print out some proofs for
proofreading, color-checking, etc.
--
Ed Huntress
Gerald Miller
From reading newspapers, I suspect that the last proof reader retired
about ten years ago.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada
Ed Huntress
"Gerald Miller" <grmi...@rogers.com> wrote in message
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I sometimes think that the only ones still employed are working in medical
communications. *Everything* in medicine that might expose a company to
liability -- which is virtually everything -- goes through two proofreaders.
And they're among the best I've seen in my 35 years in the business.
As for the rest of publishing, I think you're right. It makes my teeth hurt
to read expensive books and to find errors, which my old editor's eyes tend
to be drawn to like a pig finding truffles. Sometimes I think they aren't
even using spellchuckers.
--
Ed Huntress
Ned Simmons
There's another in a Portland ME art press run by a guy named David
Wolfe. My daughter works for him occasionally in return for access to
his shop for her own projects.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZimWIe8sLA
--
Ned Simmons
Jim Chandler
wrote:
Thanks, Ned. That was very interesting. I remember as a kid, going
to the back door of the local newspaper and watching the linotype
machines work. Boy was that NOISY! I also used to gather up pieces
of type and take them home and play with them. It never ceases to
amaze me how someone could sit down and design machines like that.
Jim
Gerald Miller
>>>>>
One of our local reporters managed to brake the breaks on his car, or
something along that line. I suggested to him that spill chucker was
not his frond.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada
Gerald Miller
wrote:
There used to be a restaurant in Hamilton Ontario, in the former
newspaper building. they had a lot of the old equipment on display,
including linotype machines. I don't know whether it is still there or
even remember the name from 30 years back.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada
Larry Jaques
<grmi...@rogers.com> scrawled the following:
>One of our local reporters managed to brake the breaks on his car, or
>something along that line. I suggested to him that spill chucker was
>not his frond.
Nor were any of his English teachers, Gerry.
--
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from
his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
-- Agnes Repplier
Norman Yarvin
Ned Simmons <ne...@nedsim.com> wrote:
>There's another in a Portland ME art press run by a guy named David
>Wolfe. My daughter works for him occasionally in return for access to
>his shop for her own projects.
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZimWIe8sLA
There are a couple of excellent videos showing the operation of Linotype
machines at:
http://www.archive.org/details/Typesett1960
and
http://www.archive.org/details/Typesett1960_2
They're downloadable in full resolution, and explain quite a bit of how
the machines worked. I found the use of multiple wedges to expand the
line, in order to justify it, particularly ingenious.
--
Norman Yarvin http://yarchive.net
Mark Rand
wrote:
>
>There are a couple of excellent videos showing the operation of Linotype
>machines at:
>
Absolutely fascinating. Thanks for those!
Regards
Mark Rand
RTFM
Ned Simmons
<norman...@snet.net> wrote:
Wow, what a great film. I'll have to download the mp4 and watch it
again. I have an interest in this stuff beyond the obvious mechanical
appeal.
I had a friend in high school who was determined to enter the
printer's apprentice program at the Boston Herald, despite our best
efforts to talk him out of it. It was obvious to even a bunch of HS
seniors in 1970 that it was a dead end.
My father was a dot etcher in offset printing for 40 years. Not long
after he retired I was building automation for manufacturing the
consumables for one of the first direct-to-press offset systems.
--
Ned Simmons