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the handle
most of the photos i see online of an old style have a straight handle grip. i love this sexy, curvy one!
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Uploaded on Aug 8, 2010
this can't be right
to the far right, what looks like a round place that the gripper bar goes into. but this sucker's...
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Uploaded on Aug 7, 2010
broken off spring
it was hard to get a decent shot but this shows where the spring broke off. how does it attach to the bar?
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Uploaded on Aug 7, 2010
fancy before
just an art-style before photo. my press area base has a terrific hunk of butcher-block mahogany i hauled all the way from michigan!
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Uploaded on Aug 7, 2010
bent hook end
the cut off end of the bent roller hook with it's cotter pin
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Uploaded on Aug 7, 2010
lucky find!
what is the device to the left of the roller hook?!? i will send a prize to whoever can id it....
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Uploaded on Aug 7, 2010
gripper
so, here's the wrong gripper for the old-style kelsey. unless of course it was meant to be a round female on a square male!
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Uploaded on Aug 7, 2010
bent roller hook
it's hard to see how bent the hook is in this dark and moody, artsy print. but take my word, it was too bent to move properly.
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Uploaded on Aug 7, 2010
round peg square hole
i have to believe this isn't how the gripper is supposed to look on the square gripper bar.
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Uploaded on Aug 7, 2010
crappy pack job
this is how my press arrived. it's a warning to anyone shipping (or receiving) a cast iron anything....
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Uploaded on Aug 7, 2010
mini mod
kelsey old style 5x8...
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