Month: October 2020

Trying out the New Nozzle and Strip Mould

Posted on by kpmartin Posted in Equipment Acquisition, Repair, and Maintenance, Kevin, Monotype Composition Caster, Type Casting — No Comments ↓

I installed the nozzle I just made into the special strip-casting pump. This pump is a Lanston (American Monotype) pump and my caster is an English-made one, and one of the incompatibilities between these is the pump body size. Although…

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Home-made Monotype Nozzle

Posted on by kpmartin Posted in Equipment Acquisition, Repair, and Maintenance, Kevin, Monotype Composition Caster — No Comments ↓

I’ve been working to get my Monotype composition caster converted to casting strip material. I have a few moulds for this, the special pump required (with a different nozzle location), the pump linkage required to run this Lanston (American) pump…

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Vandercook SP-15 parts for sale (Sold!)

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Update: The lockup bar has sold, but all the remaining parts are still available. Second update: Everything has been sold. The lockup bar garnered plenty of interest. I have a collection of random parts from an Vandercook SP-15 proof press…

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