I fed on an old "Johannesburg" press that was converted over to diecut plastic ... steel on steel, no safety stops, had to manually raise (wind) the pile, and my fingers still get twitchy (scared) when I think about it.

He would point it out but he doesn't have a hand anymore. Really hard to point without a hand.

Quote from: born2print on December 07, 2023, 11:34:15 AMFirst of all, NEVER put your hand there!

I was going to point that out

Yeah, like what's a can of gasoline doing on the floor there? Cleaning type?

where's OSHA when you need them?

Quote from: born2print on December 07, 2023, 11:34:15 AMFirst of all, NEVER put your hand there!

And the guy in the photo has his hand in there.

most of the guys that operated those had at least one short finger on their working hand.   

It's really barely different than a Gutenberg press, all of that complication is simply to automate the inking which was done by hand, directly to the raised type prior to that.

It's like a TX two-step.
The ink roller applies to the round platen (which turns a bit each time)
The platen comes forward/down to ink the raised type
The raised type goes back/up to the substrate...
well something like that...
I saw it on Rockford Files 

First of all, NEVER put your hand there!