Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Letterpress Restoration: Days 3 & 4

After running into issues with finding a way to-safely-remove the cylinder and having a bout of sickness... The cylinder is finally OFF! 

Here I am building the frame onto a media cart where the cylinder was rolled onto...

The look of excitement that it is finally happening AND the look of pure fear that it would not work out...

Annnd the look of complete relief that it WORKED! Quite the "WHEW" moment...




Last Friday (3/7), I was able to have a solid chunk of time to work on the press. As you can see below, the citristrip is working perfectly in removing the blue paint and the naval jelly is working beautifully as it removed virtually all of the rust from the two tracks on the right. 
 

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