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Many thanks to Pete Roberts for sending in this story.<\/p>\n

Metal Type does not encourage anyone to copy the described activities on their own Monotype Caster!<\/p>\n

AS AN APPRENTICE compositor I was sometimes roped into operating the Monotype caster. The hypnotic clackety clack sounds stay with me now!<\/strong><\/p>\n

In idle moments I would place individual types on the edge of the melting pot and watch them as they rapidly dissolved back into molten metal, their short lives curtailed in moments.<\/p>\n

I learned a trick that gave me lots of ‘cred’ with my colleagues – I would secretly coat my forefinger with thick machine oil and then much to the astonishment of onlookers plunge said finger into the melting pot.<\/p>\n

Timing was crucial and after mentally counting out ‘one thousand, two thousand’ I would withdraw my by now smoking finger.<\/p>\n

Had to get it right though as mistakes could be very painful.<\/p>\n

This may have contravened modern health and safety legislation I suspect?<\/p>\n

Monotype fan? Don’t miss the Monotype Chat<\/strong><\/a> section of the Metal Type Forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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