Yeah, we had a buncha lead letterpress furniture,type blocks and such we sold several years back. We called up a few gun shops till we found one willing to pick it up and smiled as they drove away, a good deal for everyone.

One of the craziest things I ever found inside a press was a lead ingot about 1-1/2 X 18" long. It was down by the bull gear rack in the base of the press on an old Heidelberg SBB converted to be a diecutter, actually the same one I rebuilt and posted pics of a while back.

I've found wrenches, screwdrivers, tons of bolts, screws, nuts and washers, quoins and quoin keys, pliers, all manner of furniture, pieces of old broken assemblies that were never removed from previous repairs, all kinds odd stuff in machines over the years, but that was the only time I ever came across a lead ingot!

I still have a cuppla old furniture cabinets, some lead, aluminum and wood furniture and some type and image blocks out in the shop. Dunno what I'll ever do with it all.

These days I'm more focused on folder gluers, bindery equipment and equipment more in the finishing end of the industry. I still do repairs from time to time on cylinder presses but a lot of shops are letting machines sit idle right now instead of repairing 'em.

The equipment and repair business here in the US is just about at a standstill in our industry. Lots of other dealers I know are in pretty sad shape and I fear within the next 6 months many of them will no longer be in business at all if things don't change. Shop closings and equipment auctions continue to overload the equipment market and devalue the equipment available from the resultant glut all at the same time, which makes selling machinery ever more challenging ... Hi Ho