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Paper Roller Replacements

February 10, 2016 By Paul

I do a lot of rubber replacement on the older machines. Show me a machine from the 1930’s and earlier, and I’ll almost always need to replace rubber feet, washers, paper rollers and platens.

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Lately I’ve been thinking (as I’m scraping off the rubber from yet another roller core).  Most days in the shop is tinkering with the machines and lot of replacing rollers.
I noticed that many of the manufacturers, over time, began to re-think paper rollers too. The Underwood 5 is a good example. The early models had traditional brass core and rubber roller, then a fiber re-enforced roller, then Underwood went to hard plastic without a core. Royal evolved to aluminum for the rear roller.

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Short story gone long; I’m making my own Underwood rollers rather than putting back on rubber.

 

This way it is a permanent repair, and works much better than the old style. Thank you Ellen for selling me those lathes, they have come in right handy!

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