Press progress

The Arab* is in fine fettle at the moment, requiring only five minutes with an oil can and a little attention from a spanner before each use. The spanner (if it will fit on the nuts) is needed to make sure everything's done up nice and tight so it'll run true. Such attention makes all the difference to the performance of the machine and as such it's very gratifying to do.

The last two jobs were carried out by Toby Bryans with a small amount of supervision from me, mostly on matters of spacing. The first of the two jobs was his change of address card. The second job was the same again, but with the correct post code. Just goes to show you should never be too hasty when dissing a job back into the cases.

These two jobs were the quickest turned around and easiest to set up so far; I think this means that that the bed of the press, so troublesome to align, is now close to being properly parallel with the platen.

*printing press, not person. I would never try, and never condone, fitting a spanner to the nuts of any living thing.