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Printing Press Restored and an Engine Reborn
Recently at Lindsay Publications a century old Ostrander-Seymour iron handpress was restored. The three-thousand pounds of iron and steel were cleaned, primed, painted, reassembled and adjusted.
When restoring an old lathe, you can only proceed so far until it's time to actually turn something to check all the adjustments.Same thing applies here.
To check the press, a short article on an unusual engine exhibited in Paris Exposition of 1878 was set in lead type, an engraving made, the whole "form" locked up in a chase. A number of test impressions were pulled, and one was sent to engine builder, Bob Jorgensen, who not so coincidentally had a complete print shop of his own at one time.
No more than two months after the article was printed, Jorgensen had built a model of the engine. In these pages you'll see the process.
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