Refurbishing the front air pin block on my Monotype caster required, among other things, removing the two sets of tongs that operate the matrix and air pin jaws. Each of these tongs has a pivoted mounting post that is…
Year: 2013
Monotype Pneumatics: Front Pin Block R&R
After refurbishing the rear air pin block on my Monotype caster, I am now doing the same to the front pin block. Disassembly is a bit different from the rear block, because the front buffer must be removed in pieces:…
Rural Routes Studio Tour auction continues
Although the 2013 Tour is over, we are already getting ready for next year’s (Saturday and Sunday, November 1st and 2nd 2014). As part of this ongoing activity, we are continuing our series of monthly auctions of works from the…
Monotype Pneumatics: Rear Pin Block R&R
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have found that the air pins on my caster are somewhat sluggish, and in some cases stuck completely. To diagnose this and get the pins on the rear pin block moving freely,…
St. Agatha Lions Club Arts and Crafts Fair
This is a bit of late-breaking news, but we will have a booth at the St. Agatha Lions Club Arts and Crafts Fair Christmas Show next Sunday, November 17th 2013. This fair will be held at the St. Agatha Community…
Slacking off this week
I haven’t made many blog posts this month, as it seems that I haven’t done much that is blog-worthy. We held our marbling workshop yesterday, with four people attending, and everyone had a good time. Before that, though, I spent…
Two days of marbling
This weekend was our Rural Routes Studio Tour, during which I was demonstrating paper marbling. I spent quite a bit of time describing what I was doing, warning people to keep out of the spatter zone, and (when there were…
Monotype Pneumatics: A new paper tower air supply connector
What with helping to get our daughter’s Hallowe’en costume finished in time, and trying to clean our store for the studio tour coming up this weekend, I have had little time to work on my Monotype. The current tasks are…
Monotype Pneumatics: The Mould Signalling valve
Last but not least of the control valves to be serviced on my Monotype caster is what I refer to as the Mould Signalling control valve. Depending on what options the caster is fitted with, this valve might be used…
Monotype Pneumatics: The Quadding and Centering control valve
After a short side trip to test and trace the individual air lines on my caster I have returned to the task of refurbishing the various pneumatic control valves. The next one to do is the Quadding and Centering control…
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