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That's just the problem with the newspaper industry as a whole during this whole downturn. They all drank the kool aid and levered up to either buy other papers or invest heavily in new equipment thinking the good times would just roll on. A good example of that happened in my state. There...

Heh well if you look at some of the YouTube videos showing shops you'll prolly see OSHA violations a plenty. Saw this one vid where they took all the guards off their presses.

Did you guys have to file it down or could you use regular sandpaper? See that's why we used bondo instead of something like JB Weld or something similar. Yes bondo shrinks a bit when it cures but it's way easier to work with.

Or you could do like we did and use bondo. One of our guys accidentally dropped a allen wrench in one of the presses trying to adjust the forms on the run and it got caught between the plate and blanket cylinders. We filed the raised portions flat and filled in the indentations with bondo. Of...

The only one I saw from Kobalt at Lowe's was the set using the stubby wratcheting wrenches. They had a bit adaptor for use in one of the wrenches. I have that set, well actually the GearWrench set but they're the same thing, and the heads are too big to use in some areas like the stop screws...

I dunno about sheetfeds but there'll shortly be a lot of ex-Star Bulletin guys out of work...

Has anyone found a suitable alternative to Chapmans? I've looked and looked and so far nada. Usually the ratchet has too big a head. I mean come on. Anywhere from a buck to a buck and a half per bit? It's almost as if Goss deliberately designed their presses to use Chapmans and Chapmans...

Are you guys using a deadpan system? Our super is trying to do one piecemeal and it sux big time. I can see where if you to a total convert all at once it might work but doing it one at a time blows. Not helping is the fact the feed lines to the reservior are about as big as our pneumatic...

We use compressible blankets on our Communities and use a T-handle torque wrench with a 3/16 hex socket on it. Now the blanket mfg. says 45 ft/lbs but we found that if we do that the bolts don't torque down far enough below the surface so we went to 50 ft/lbs.

Hmm one I had was when we got our folder rebuilt going from an SC to an SSC. We were just bringing up the folder to full run speed on it's first run since the rebuild when all of a sudden I heard this loud BANG! so I immediately hit the stop button. The whole crew ran up to the folder to see...

I'm a 2nd press in a shop with 2 Goss 4-HI's, 1 UOP stack unit, and 7 Goss Communities (ground pounders).

Goss offers training both onsite and offsite.

Hmm soul destroying eh? How about every day I go to work I seem to be the only one on the press with 3 other guys there. The lead is nowhere to be seen and the new guy is still hopeless after a year still dribbling ink everywhere he goes and once tried to put 2 plates on the same plate...