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:…
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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,…
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…
Confused Monotype Pneumatics, Part 2
On removing the dummy plate on my Unit Adding valve base and testing individual air lines, I have determined that: This valve uses lines I, K, N, 0005, and 0075 (not J, K, N, 0005, and 0075 as my manual…
Confused Monotype Pneumatics
Using a sports inflator needle to apply compressed air to each air line individually, I am finding several oddities. The first is certainly not unexpected: Several of the airpins are sticking. I think my best bet for these is to…
Monotype Pneumatics: Paper Tower air supply
Just for a lark, I tried connecting my Monotype caster to a compressed air supply, and found that the air connection to the paper tower leaked so badly that the (admittedly small) compressor could not keep up. I tried putting…
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