equpment outside dimensions

Somewhere on this site i think there is info you want, you could try the Excelsior Press web site. C&P’s are my favorite presses, Goldings are narrower and seem to have a smaller footprint. If you are near a museum youcould visit and most likely get dimensions of lots of presses. Don’t know where you are located, if you are in New England i’d be glad to show you how to set type, i’ve been letterpress printing for years, my favorite thing is type setting, i have some foundry type, a couple of ludlows and am setting up a linotype.

I just bought a C&P 8X12 New Style and had to move it into my shed. It was 36” wide. My doors were also 35”. I now am the proud owner of a shed with a double-door. Heh. The Sawz-all is my friend!

The other method that you can use is to take the main gear-wheel off the right side and the flywheel off the left and then pull out the shaft that connects them. This will make the press small enough to fit through a standard door, as well as making it much lighter for the move.

In my case I was more worried about either damaging the press dismantling it or not getting things back together again correctly coupled with not having some experience woodworking and framing. Having a pair of matching spare exterior doors lying around and a very handy friend also helped a lot.

Justin Miller’s Bound Staff Press, at

http://boundstaffpress.blogspot.com/

has a lovely old C&P catalog which gives not only dimensions but also the space through which the press will pass, for various degrees of stripping. Also weights.

Regards,
David M.
www.CircuitousRoot.com

http://www.nobleimpressions.net/main/Press_Info.html

Thanks All for the info

dickg thanks for the offer
am in Detroit
spending lots of time
reading and re reading Ralph Polk’s
The Practice of Printing

door frames are metal
think could pull door and frame
would make opening a 6 inches wider

might be easier to break down press
have broke down and moved more than one
offset sheet fed press

will keep looking around

put deposit on 19 inch lever paper cutter

once have the paper cutter
figure am 1/4 way to having a small shop

help me
having strange yearnings for a Golding Pearl

again
thank you
yours truly
Mac

Mac,

A smaller size golding pearl would maybe be the way to go. That press would certainly fit through a 35” door with little to no effort or disassembly.

I have a C&P 10X15 Model N, and I have put it through a 38” doorway; I believe we even had a bit of room. It was slimmer front to back than side to side, and I believe had we removed a flywheel or some other part if could have fit through an EVEN SMALLER doorway than our 38” opening.
Tomorrow when I’m at the shop I’ll close it up and measure out for you.

Good luck in your search.

So my C&P could sqeeze through a 35.5” door with the feedboard removed, as I measured it with a tapemeasure. Probably wouldn’t want to try it, but “COULD”.

So my C&P could sqeeze through a 35.5” door with the feedboard removed, as I measured it with a tapemeasure. Probably wouldn’t want to try it, but “COULD”.

So my C&P could sqeeze through a 35.5” door with the feedboard removed, as I measured it with a tapemeasure. Probably wouldn’t want to try it, but “COULD”.

So my C&P could sqeeze through a 35.5” door with the feedboard removed, as I measured it with a tapemeasure. Probably wouldn’t want to try it, but “COULD”.

So my C&P could sqeeze through a 35.5” door with the feedboard removed, as I measured it with a tapemeasure. Probably wouldn’t want to try it, but “COULD”.

So my C&P could sqeeze through a 35.5” door with the feedboard removed, as I measured it with a tapemeasure. Probably wouldn’t want to try it, but “COULD”.

helimited, your studdering again.

thanks everybody

yours truly
mac