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arjacobson
01-08-2013, 03:18 PM
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
01-08-2013, 03:24 PM
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
01-08-2013, 03:45 PM
It bends just a bit and then it snaps. I am thinking it is linotype

runfiverun
01-09-2013, 12:07 AM
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
01-09-2013, 12:11 AM
r5r, very good. From experience buying or are you in or have been in the printing industry also?

Hardcast416taylor
01-09-2013, 01:47 PM
Lino.Robert

runfiverun
01-09-2013, 02:28 PM
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
01-09-2013, 04:33 PM
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
01-09-2013, 06:29 PM
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
01-09-2013, 07:00 PM
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
01-10-2013, 12:06 AM
Lot of the spacers used today are made with zinc.

shadygrady
01-10-2013, 12:25 PM
send that zinc to me for lead

arjacobson
01-10-2013, 05:52 PM
After looking at the stash I do believe they are all linotype. If I do find any zinc it is yours..