Chandler & Price Letterpress

This is a 12x18 C&P letterpress built in 1921-25 that I bought last week and I cleaned it up a little. I tried running it off the leather belt but could not get it to stay on the flywheel. I guess the guy before me had it running that way but I could not so I put a rubber wheel on instead and it seems to work just fine that way.

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• Chandler and Price
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[dbletterpress]

Howz the printing goin? Hopefully by now you have some rollers to go with it.

[TheGOMEZ78]

Amigo que  le ponen en los rieles de rodillos a la maquina Chandler cuando están gastados los rieles. Gracias por sua yuda.

[carpro05]

just got one of these im trying to figure out what its worth do you or any one know???????

[scooterss2112]

I too have one like this, motor and all, however where yours says chandler and price, mine says, The Challenge Manufactory. Have no idea what to do with it. If anyone is looking for one of these, reply to my comment.

[KakarottoCL]

@treborif thank you, good luck you too!

[treborif]

@kakarottoCL - thankyou - i live in Dunedin NZ - across the pacific from you in Chile, we got (a little) of the tidal wave from the earthquake. Good luck and take care. R.

[KakarottoCL]

@treborif what a nice story, i almost cried

[IExposeMormonism]

Time for some brushes on the electric motor. and/or armature needs turning. I'm looking for Mid 19th C presses, like a Ramage

[treborif]

so I sold it to a lovely young lady who I met again 13 years later and now we're together and printing LP and intaglio/cyclinder.

[fmichaelb]

When it's forward the press is 'off impression', that is, it will cycle (so you can ink up the rollers and/or bring it up to speed) without actually having the type contact the paper. When it's back, it will make in impression. If you miss a feed (either fail to put in a paper at all or put it in crooked) you push the lever forward so as not to waste the misfed sheet and/or get ink on the backing sheet, which will smear onto the back of the next few sheets of your stock.