Chandler & Price Printing Press Restoration

In 2009 we stumbled upon these neat pieces of antique machinery when someone contacted us that had a Chandler and Price Pilot that needed extensive casting repairs. While doing a full restore of the little press we became fascinated by these unique pieces of machinery. Curiosity lead to researching more about these letter presses and we discovered that there were many other types and sizes.

After the completion of the Pilot found someone local with a 10 x 15 Chandler and Price Old Style for sale and took it on as a project. We had so much fun doing restoring the 10x15 that we decide to make it a side aspect to the business of designing and building production machinery and prototypes.

Our experience in machinery restoration really aided us I the restoration of the first two presses. So far we have restored ten Chandler and Price printing presses.

If you are selling a press we are always interested. Please email us and we will go from there.

Below are photos of some of the presses we have restored to date. We have a selection of presses and press parts. 

 "It is not my intention to restore these machines to show, or museum quality. It is my intention to re-work, as necessary, a 100 year old versatile piece of printing machinery, and to give it possibly, another 100 years of life. As a designer of machines and lover of old machines, especially these that oscillate, reciprocate, slide, rotate and clink; it warms my heart to bring back to life these cast iron masterpieces."
-Brian DeFelice
 

 Complete rework includes:

• Restored to fully functional condition.
• Includes 3 new ink rollers
• Includes Grippers
• Includes 1 chase
• Includes 1 Impression Wrenches (1-1/8”, new).
• Includes a Gripper Wrench (3/4”, new).
• Includes 6 black delrin roller trucks (DeFelice part 4123)
• Painted Semi-Gloss Black.
• Wiring and on/off switch or Digital Speed Controller
• Painted semi-gloss back
• Gold metallic pin stripped
• Bolt heads, nuts, and shafts will be shined
• Any parts that are missing are replaced with equal to original or better.
• Wood Feed tables are new, constructed out of Red Oak with 3 coats of Urethane.
• New Bodine gear motor drive.
• Motor mount is custom and of high quality and utilizes existing tapped holes on the press frame to mount to.
• Motor uses V-belt drive pulleys.
• Motor pulleys have high quality custom guard.
• Approximately 10 cycles per minute on single speed motor and 0 to 15 cycles per minute on variable speed motor.
• Motor Specs
• TEFC
• 1/3 HP
• 110VAC or 220VAC
• 170 RPM
• Continuous duty.
• Is bolted to a fork truck-able skid made from 2x6 lumber and carriage bolts.
• Includes bound booklet showing original manufactures lubrication information and parts break down.
• The motor mounts to the press itself and does not touch the floor or increase it's footprint any (the motor is within the size of the press).

An average press restoration runs 10-20 weeks

Contact us for pricing.