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Count Sandor, SASS #74075

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  1. Thanks for the memories, Dave! Long time since I heard the sound of a Linotype in operation...! My first job after high school was as a laborer in a 3-person small-town weekly newspaper office/ job shop printer. Mrs. Wilson owned the place, was the reporter/editor/salesperson. The printer went by the name "Young Bill", while the Linotype operator was "Old Bill." I was not an apprentice, so didn't get the title of Printer's Devil, but did many of the tasks just the same. One of the jobs after a press run was to help Young Bill break down the assembled type. Then I got to melt it down and cast it into the long ingots the linotype machine used. The ingots were about two feet long, and around 2 1/2 inches wide. After the ingots were cooled, I had to carry them back to the Linotype machine and hold them in place while Old Bill physically hooked them to the chains - NO ONE but him was allowed to touch ANY part of the Linotype, not even the boss! The handles on the molds were convenient for moving them around in the melt shed, but I soon learned the hard way that they were not for carrying the ingots back inside...2-foot long chunks of tin, antimony and lead can do bad things to a floor, or a dumb kid's foot when they shrink and fall out of the mold! Picture of molds is attached
  2. None of our usual monthly shooters has achieved that status as yet, but we have had 1 El Ray at each of the last two Illinois State Shoots - same gentleman. FWIW, we've had either 5 or 6 El Patrons at each of those shoots, so there are more El Rays in the pipeline, so to speak! Count
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