NR - Printers Type

I. Marc Carlson LIB_IMC at centum.utulsa.edu
Tue Nov 10 15:33:28 PST 1998


<"j'lynn yeates" <jyeates at realtime.net>>
>warnings ... for those contemplating melting down this lead for projects, it 
>is very likely that it is not pure ... the old hot-type industry (my family had 
>some of the last operational linotypes in the dallas area ... still have one 
>stored away from when the shop shut down) used lead with various 
>hardening agents, not all nice.

Thank you, but this is not linotype, however.  This is the older individual
letters.  It's going to be hard enough getting rid of this stuff, since
people today seem to think that lead's so poisonous it's radioactive
without adding in confusing information :)

Marc/Diarmaid
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