The Mackenzie Printery & Newspaper Museum maintains a print shop at the Wainfleet fairgrounds in Wainfleet, Ontario, and one piece of equipment there is a Whitlock 2-rotation cylinder press. Note that there is a different model of Whitlock press that…
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Marshville Heritage Festival, September 2nd-4th 2023 in Wainfleet, Ontario
The Mackenzie Printery & Newspaper Museum maintains a print shop at the Wainfleet fairgrounds in Wainfleet, Ontario, and each Labour Day weekend, the Marshville Heritage Festival takes place there, where the Museum volunteers open up the print shop to demonstrate…
Upcoming Summer Papermaking Workshops
We’ve (finally) selected a couple of dates for our Introductory Papermaking workshop this summer. The first, admittedly on very short notice, is on Saturday June 24th, and the other is about a month later on Saturday July 22nd. Both workshops…
Monotype Composition Caster Pot Temperature Controller
Over the past few months, I’ve had to replace the old Partlow temperature controller on the pot of my Monotype Composition Caster. On my caster the old mechanical controller has failed; each time I ran the caster I found that…
Progress on the Mackenzie Printery’s Linotype (Lower Reed Comb)
This is yet another repair I had to make on the Linotype at the MacKenzie Printery and Newspaper Museum. The keyboard assembly has a row of 91 short pushrods, known as the Lower Reeds, which push up when a key…
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Linotype Knife Block R&R
The knife block on the Linotype at the Mackenzie Printery Museum was pretty much impossible to adjust due to dried out lubricant. This block controls the position of the right knife which trims the thickness of the cast slug to…
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Progress on the Mackenzie Printery’s Linotype (Broken Upper Reed)
One of the tasks I had in getting the Linotype at the Mackenzie Printery and Newspaper Museum working was to repair one of the keyboard reeds which I had broken (I blame the service manual for failing to warn of…
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Monotype Repairs: An Enclosure for a New Pot Temperature Controller
While using my Monotype Composition Caster recently, I’ve noticed that the pot temperature has been drifting. On several occasions I’ve found it to be quite a bit hotter than the setpoint, to the point where I had to select a…
American Typecasting Fellowship Meeting this April
After one cancellation and one virtual meeting both due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Typecasting Fellowship (ATF) will be holding its first in-person conference since the August 2018 conference hosted by M&H Type in San Francisco. This year’s event…
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2023 Grimsby Wayzgoose, April 29th
The 45th Grimsby Wayzgoose Book Arts Fair will take place at the Grimsby Public Art Gallery in Grimsby, Ontario, from 9am to 5pm on Saturday, April 29th 2023. We will have a table at the show, selling some of our…
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