Does anyone have access to a Vandercook proof press #4 operations manual or some such directions on the press’s operation. Also who is a good supplier for photopolymer plates for this press? Thanks, Bosco Bob
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No.4 Cylinder Engineering Print
Fritz sent me this drawing of a No.4 cylinder showing its position at the feed board. It is posted for the benefit of Klu, and other tenacious individuals who dare to restore long-abandoned presses from which lesser mortals would have walked away. –PM The excerpt below was originally posted 10-11-06 by Paul Moxon on “PPL”:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PPLetterpress […]
MoreCylinder Undercut Variables
[In a previous post I stated that all 4Ts have an cylinder undercut of .070″. —PM] Just to add my two cents, my 4T cylinder is undercut to .070″ as are the other 4T’s at the Wells Book Arts Center. … I’m curious why a Uni I manual at the Center would have been undercut […]
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Happy 9-18 Day. The owner of a No. 4T wants to know whether his press has a galley height bed. He mentions that the undercut is .070″ and also wants to know the dimensions of the leveler’s feet, one of which is apparently missing. The simplest way to find out the height-to-paper of the press […]
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