Someone recently asked me about spare parts for the pump for a Monotype caster so I went through what I have.
This is a standard English pump, installed on my composition caster.
A Lanston strip-casting pump and piston, recently used for strip-casting experiments
An English display-casting pump piston. The short head and lowered lever groove provide a longer stroke and thus more pump volume.
All my other pumps and pistons, see main text for details.
In that last photo, top-to-bottom:
- A pair of wear shoes for Lanston pump bodies
- An English standard pump body, apparently new
- An English large-diameter (1⅛″) pump, apparently new
- A Lanston standard pump
- A Lanston large-diameter (1⅛″) pump piston
- Two English standard pump pistons
- (across all the pistons) A pump stem to use an English-style piston head in a Lanston pump body, head and handle missing, apparently new
Since I want to keep both Lanston and English pumps for my caster, the only parts here that I can spare are the 1⅛″ English pump and Lanston piston, one of the standard English pistons, and that strange piston stem for using an English head on a Lanston pump. So if you’re interested in any of those parts, make me an offer.
Lanston does have a different piston (a17H5) for sorts casting so the piston shown in the last photo and listed as the fourth item might be a standard 17H5 piston or an a17H5 display-casting piston. I don’t have the information to tell them apart unless I had both side-by-side to compare.