Nicky the Letter Press has a history! So glad to see it is being put back into service.
The Chase that came with it was broken into three pieces, I later TIG welded the cast iron back together - not pretty it works. The thing was completely frozen up with rust. @Bill Gee and I spent the better part of a day getting it out of the crate, apart, sandblasting it, polishing things and oiling it so it worked smoothly. Later new rollers were procured.
The problem we had was the person that taught the class taught at UNT but moved to Michigan or Ohio. It has basically sat becuase becuase we didn’t have anyone that taught classes.
Also, the Shapeoko that was in CA was being gotten rid of from Machine Shop. @dr_cee and myself claimed it for CA - original intent was to do linoleum on it for the letter press. Chuck @dr_cee, John @jschmidt07 and Jay @jphelps and others rebuilt electronics and made an enclosure. Jay now teaches the classes for it. Not sure of it’s history of getting into Machine Shop.
The smaller Letter Presses name is “Nicky” … isn’t that right @uglyknees
Arrival of Letterpress
Nicky’s new home
Niki
Space Opera of Inky and Stinky and Nicky
Then there are various adventures of Niki / Nicky the Letter press and how she was orphaned by the Red quen