This video was produced by The Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut, and the machine is explained by Claude Clotier who died earlier this year.
I am a linotype mechanic but have been out of the industry for many years. Recently I was asked to look at a model 78. Some years ago, it was dropped when moving and had to be rebuilt, but now I am...
Hi Les, I assume you mean when you go to turn the mold disk, as you would when changing from one mold to another, as an operator would, the disk is hard to turn. If you pull disk forward it spins f...
At the risk of stating the obvious, do you know if Chryssa had a friend or relative that worked for a newspaper. It would have been possible for them to "borrow" some old slugs for a few days, then...
