Hi David! You are too generous to offer to pay for this! Thank you for thinking of us and being such a great friend! It is nice to know there are roving press mechanics out there and we would love to meet these guys anyway! Fortunately Mark Barbour’s press mechanic diagnosed the problem, he thought the trucks must be rubbing against the roller hooks. He suggested I grind down the trucks on the outside edges with sandpaper or a file and voila! It worked! I ended up grinding out the inside key on the trucks so they would ride along the rails a little better as well. So everything seems to be running now and the rollers appear to be at the correct height! We will find out this weekend when we finally ink this bad boy up! Looking forward to seeing you sometime in the not-so-distant future!
Anne

Thanks, David.  We were having a hard time getting a hold of Mark over the last week, so I started searching for other solutions.  His press mechanic did give me a call this weekend, and I need to call him back, so hopefully we will move forward soon.  Thanks for the fabulous card, btw =)

Thanks for the ideas, Mike.  The rollers are indeed slurring across the form and not inking properly.  The trucks do seem to engage properly on the roller core with a small tongue and groove situation.  We used some vertical narrow plates along the outside edge of the chase as roller bearers as a temporary solution but because this gets a lot of ink on the tympan, we didn’t really see this as a long term solution.

Thanks again for responding!  We are getting some other good feedback from some other folks so I will post any solution we find here.

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