My Grandpa was a small town newspaperman/printer. He had whole shop full of antique printing equipment, with a press very similar to this. The coolest thing in the shop, though, were his 2 Linotype machines...amazing pieces of engineering!
@@1957Shep Indeed. Way back in the 1930s, Grandpa went to Linotype school in Rifle, CO, just to learn how to operate, and more importantly, maintain those beasts! I can still see him, chomping on a cigar, typing furiously away, then he'd suddenly jump up, run around to the back of the machine, hop onto a platform and fix a jam, or some other malfunction, and then back to the keyboard. Great memories: the sounds; all the gears and shafts, levers, cams, belts, pulleys, all moving together in the intricate process!
An old hand fed Miehle letterpress with a grasshopper delivery. I was in trade school in the late 50s and we had a larger one with an automatic stream feeder. This press was the workhorse of the trade school. I remember one thing: The chases were big and very heavy with lead lines of type and space material and you had better make sure they would lift before you removed them from the stone.
i worked on those cutting presses for years, sheet feed feeders, There all gone now, sold for scrap. good ridence. climbed all over those things, dirty noisey hard work.
Wouldn't OSHA have a ball with that press. They'd have all kinds of guards & safety gismos on it to where it wouldn't work anymore. Thanks for sharing. Dick
+WB8MHE Back then they had not started trying to child proof the world. Where I work we are almost afraid to even make fun of the so called safety programs for fear some idiot will think up new bullshit. I figure their next project is going to be a 489 page procedure on the correct, safe, enviromentally friendly, and company/government approved use of toilet paper.
+metthem88 They had some older steam powered printing presses there as well. I got a little video of them that I have not used yet, but they were not running at the time.
My Grandpa was a small town newspaperman/printer. He had whole shop full of antique printing equipment, with a press very similar to this. The coolest thing in the shop, though, were his 2 Linotype machines...amazing pieces of engineering!
Before computers, people came up complicated mechanical devices that did the same thing.
@@1957Shep Indeed. Way back in the 1930s, Grandpa went to Linotype school in Rifle, CO, just to learn how to operate, and more importantly, maintain those beasts! I can still see him, chomping on a cigar, typing furiously away, then he'd suddenly jump up, run around to the back of the machine, hop onto a platform and fix a jam, or some other malfunction, and then back to the keyboard. Great memories: the sounds; all the gears and shafts, levers, cams, belts, pulleys, all moving together in the intricate process!
An old hand fed Miehle letterpress with a grasshopper delivery. I was in trade school in the late 50s and we had a larger one with an automatic stream feeder. This press was the workhorse of the trade school. I remember one thing: The chases were big and very heavy with lead lines of type and space material and you had better make sure they would lift before you removed them from the stone.
Thanks for the info.
santa catalina, por la virgen del pilar. Leí en castellano pero no se le entiende que figura quieres dar a entender. Sí el traductor. Saludos
Awesome. I owned a printing company for about 20 years in a previous life. I could almost smell the ink when I watched this one. Nice video.
+Magnum Thanks.
I worked at one. And I find it funny this is called "antique".
very cool, my grandfather use to work for a printing company
+Specific Love Creations Thanks.
I was told the press I did a lot of "quick and dirty" printing was a Navy ship press. It wasn't quite that big.
Good looking catcher there
Thanks for taking time to watch.
i worked on those cutting presses for years, sheet feed feeders, There all gone now, sold for scrap. good ridence. climbed all over those things, dirty noisey hard work.
Very cool Shep, Thanks
+rls303 Interesting to watch how it used to be done.
That's Sweet Bro!
+The Lone Patriot 111 Thanks.
Wouldn't OSHA have a ball with that press. They'd have all kinds of guards & safety gismos on it to where it wouldn't work anymore. Thanks for sharing. Dick
+WB8MHE Back then they had not started trying to child proof the world.
Where I work we are almost afraid to even make fun of the so called safety programs for fear some idiot will think up new bullshit.
I figure their next project is going to be a 489 page procedure on the correct, safe, enviromentally friendly, and company/government approved use of toilet paper.
first was a kluge then the next was a meihle, at least 100 years old, but i understand there are still a lot of kluges around.
Thanks for the info.
Cool, thanks 🙂👍☕
Thank you too!
Cool video, amazing. I bet it's really wild in person
+metthem88 They had some older steam powered printing presses there as well. I got a little video of them that I have not used yet, but they were not running at the time.
Would really like to see those working!
very cool!!!
+BATJAC J.W Thanks.
MONSTER Machines!
+454pakr As far as commercial printing presses go, these were just little ones. The kind that would have been used by a small town newspaper.
lol "Antique". This was commonly used only a few years ago.
If I remember right, this press is over 100 years old. I would call myself an antique and I`m a lot younger than that. :-)
Very cool. Nice and dangerous looking, too!!
+TheNewYork Reload Back then they assumed that adults had a little common sense. They had not started trying to child proof the world yet.
+1957Shep I hear that!!
Nice :)
+Marcel Klein Thanks.
Is this 18 century print press or?
cool
+David Wagner Thanks.
Very interesting. How old is it?
+Gun Collector007 At a guess, I would say 1920s vintage, but I`m not sure.
+1957Shep Old time quality never dies.
I have an albion printing machine . I want to sell it now. Please suggest me good platform to sell it.
Where is the USB port? :P
+Hawaii Volcano Squad On the lower left behind the keyboard. :)
So newspapermen were all deaf, I suppose.
+GunFun ZS Back then they were all deaf. Today they are just dumb. :)
+GunFun ZS Heh, my first thought as well.
+chevy6299 These days they take classes to become dumber.
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Thanks
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