BZimm
08-05-2017, 08:51 AM
Good Morning. First off, I don't cast boolits (yet). I am new to this aspect of shooting and reloading and I am reading and reading and reading some more. I have been collecting COWW and sorting and I'm about to begin smelting raw material into ingots. I've been reading through the Fryxell document concerning moulds and alloy percentages.
I stopped in on a friend yesterday. He is the owner/editor of a newspaper here in my area. I just wanted to learn a bit about linotype and see what he or someone else locally might have laying around. He startled me with his knowledge of the entire typesetting process and I realized he would have been a kid working for his father when all that style of printing was popular. He is the one that took his newspaper "digital" quite recently; about 20 years ago. All this aside, I'll get to the point.....
He told me that when we both had more time he'd take me back and show me the remnants of the linotype casting machinery and pigs that he's never exactly known what to do to get it out of his way! He made it sound like a complete corner of a melting and casting process that was necessary to his business. He spoke of a "CASTOMATIC" or something like that would take the linotype plates and reduce them to bulk pigs to be returned or recycled back into the process. Whew.
I'm asking you guys how much of an opportunity this might be. I don't want to get all excited and end up with more square footage of junk that I can't unload into the marketplace. And yet I don't want to pass up a deal that could be a lead mine either. Any thoughts? Any similar experiences? I don't want to appear overly anxious with this guy either. I have a track record of seeing extreme value and interest in stuff that the rest of the world doesn't share. I have a barn full of junk to prove it. Any thoughts or comments are very welcome.
BZimm
I stopped in on a friend yesterday. He is the owner/editor of a newspaper here in my area. I just wanted to learn a bit about linotype and see what he or someone else locally might have laying around. He startled me with his knowledge of the entire typesetting process and I realized he would have been a kid working for his father when all that style of printing was popular. He is the one that took his newspaper "digital" quite recently; about 20 years ago. All this aside, I'll get to the point.....
He told me that when we both had more time he'd take me back and show me the remnants of the linotype casting machinery and pigs that he's never exactly known what to do to get it out of his way! He made it sound like a complete corner of a melting and casting process that was necessary to his business. He spoke of a "CASTOMATIC" or something like that would take the linotype plates and reduce them to bulk pigs to be returned or recycled back into the process. Whew.
I'm asking you guys how much of an opportunity this might be. I don't want to get all excited and end up with more square footage of junk that I can't unload into the marketplace. And yet I don't want to pass up a deal that could be a lead mine either. Any thoughts? Any similar experiences? I don't want to appear overly anxious with this guy either. I have a track record of seeing extreme value and interest in stuff that the rest of the world doesn't share. I have a barn full of junk to prove it. Any thoughts or comments are very welcome.
BZimm