What is this? lino-mono????

[arjacobson]

This is a pc of what I got yesterday. I would guess I have 80lbs of this and 20lbs of a much thinner strip material. Any help is MUCH appreciated57934

[Bodine]

How does it bend, could be cushion blocks or could be typeset spacers..
If it wont bend and cracks or is brittle it would be some type of hard lead.

[arjacobson]

It bends just a bit and then it snaps. I am thinking it is linotype

[runfiverun]

they are all linotype.
they are just different types of spacers.
i usually get the spacers when given a choice between those and the little letters.
others say get the letters [shrugging]
the spacers get re-used and not so much re-melted.

[ncbearman]

r5r, very good. From experience buying or are you in or have been in the printing industry also?

[Hardcast416taylor]

Lino.Robert

[runfiverun]

i was a screen printer for 7 years if that counts.
for the last little while my only source of lead has been linotype from our local two page newspaper.
i wanna buy all of it, but...

[ncbearman]

Sure, I guess screen print would be like AAA minors in baseball. It's printing just not quite the same :o Like so many things I wish I would have done in the 60's - 70's I could have got alot of old type and lead for free when they finally transitioned out of letterpress and into offset. We also could have bought gold at $175 an ounce.

[madsenshooter]

i was a screen printer for 7 years if that counts.
for the last little while my only source of lead has been linotype from our local two page newspaper.
i wanna buy all of it, but...

Are you serious, someone still using hot type? Last LinoType machine I'm aware of here in SE Ohio quit in the early 80s.

[David2011]

In 1976 I took a typography class while getting a degree in communications. The only tenured professor at that time in the College of Communications at the university I attended explained that computer set type was a fad that would pass and hot set type would prevail. That speaks volumes about the educational system.

David

[chutesnreloads]

Lot of the spacers used today are made with zinc.

[shadygrady]

send that zinc to me for lead

[arjacobson]

After looking at the stash I do believe they are all linotype. If I do find any zinc it is yours..