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I LANSTON TYPE COMPANY I GERALD GIAMPA I
¶ GERALD GIAMPA SAYS that this is the end of casting most find unpleasant. Removing the dross, cleaning under the well, adjusting the intake of metal and keeping the plunger clean was imperative for predictable production of quality type.
Giampa was not sympathetic to bottom winders. He got tired of splatters of metal on his shirt sleeve and converted all casters to top winders. More patient operators got used to them.
Cleaning the pot, drilling the nozzle, removing and cleaning the plungers and making adjustment to the pump, nozzle and metal temperatures were the key to quality type.
Giampa says: 'Keep kittens away from metal pots, I had two of them take a swim.'
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¶ VISITORS TENDED to want to muck around in the molten lead pots. See wooden sticks burn, that sort of thing, simple childish pleasures. But even the most inexperience Monotype operator found there were much more pleasant tasks at hand. However, nothing was going to work for long without a religious tending to the Monotype Pot. The metal had to be clean, temperature correct, nozzle drilled, pump drilled, hat valve tended to and a good clean pump and plunger. Not to mention post alignment, correct drop, and suitable pressure for the type to march from the channel in a military fashion.
Then there were the routine of removing scale.
No one liked freezing, squirts, hollow type. No one like to work on the pot either. One thing for sure, the pot was reliable, it was alway there for you first thing in the morning. Sometimes, if your name was Stump, it even cooked lunch.
Incidentally, Stump was an exceptional printer.
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