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Repair Note: Our previous supplier of these parts has gone on to other endeavors. The parts shown in the photos below are no longer available from the source we relied on for so long. But we do plan to pursue fabrication of replacement parts with other foundries & machine shops as well as by making what we can here in our own little machine shop.  If you own a Kelsey - or other
brand manually operated letter printing press, we may be
able to can get you parts for repair of your press - or
repair your press for you. Wouldn't it be nice to have an extra chase - or to replace that missing ink table on the press you just bought?. . We are working now to develop the relationships with a foundry and machine shop to once again be able to offer new parts - by duplicating parts from presses in our collection. We expect to soon be able to supply ourselves - and you - with the parts needed - to repair or restore Kelsey or other brand letterpresses.  When new parts are needed, we plan to
make them. Many of the new parts we have made available
in the past were cast - in America - of ductile steel,
which will outlast the orginal - and somewhat brittle -
cast iron used in the past. Some parts have also been
cast of cast iron or aluminum as appropriate.
 Although this work was not done at the Excelsior Press, we did at one time have a source of supply for these parts and we currently are working towards making available once again a convenient source for the parts that we - or you - may need for the restoration work that these little presses deserve. This is a work in progress, and we cannot offer you all we would like - not qute yet - since we are, after all, printers with an interest in press repair, not machinists with years of experience fabricating missing press parts... - but as the project evolves, we will update this page with the most current information. - 9/30/2011 |
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Custom Press Restoration - as available The supply of used Kelsey presses seems to be waning. Some of you have already found a press, but it may need some work. Or you may have purchased one which is missing parts or was damaged in transit. For you there is some good news - The same skills and attention to detail that have made our restored Kelsey presses so popular is now available on a custom basis.
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* Note: Due to fluctuating market prices - specifically the cost of used presses plus varying costs for casting and machining new parts, all prices affected by these fluctuations must be set at time of purchase. |
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page last updated October 29,
2009 November 20, 2010 September
30, 2011
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