re: #386 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Mmmm. Roast beef au plombe. Exquisite!

Linotype operators sat next to molten lead/antimony several hours a day. Can’t have been good for their health.

One of my jobs was with a paper that was transitioning from cast lead linotype to photogravure. The old machines were amazing—giant ‘typewriters’ fed from a long recycled ingot that slowly lowered into a gas melting pot. I copped some discarded ingots to make dive weights.