Anyone ever run a Precision Oval

[Prosperi-Tees]

The guy who owned it is retiring. That is actually how I have gotten most of my equipment, from retirees or business close downs.

[MrBreeze]

You got a good deal. 

[RICK STEFANICK]

tell him you'll remove the oval no charge then take it straight to the scrap yard make a quick 500 plus.

[Prosperi-Tees]

If it wasnt 4 hours away I probably would.

[Sbrem]

I'm a little late to this party, but the first auto at my first shop was a Starter Oval, 4 color press. We ran lots and lots of 1 - 4 color jobs on it, did our first process jobs on it, and built our own first flash unit (before they were commercially available) for it to run glow in the dark over a flashed white underbase. A good machine, for the time, but too much of a dinosaur now. That's where the 23 x 31 size was popularized if I'm remembering correctly. This was around 1980...

Steve

[Prosperi-Tees]

Im looking forward to getting my Javelin. Its just hard to find time as orders have been coming in steady as I work a full time job as well.

[DouglasGrigar]

tell him you'll remove the oval no charge then take it straight to the scrap yard make a quick 500 plus.

I don’t know if I would help that much without some fee.

1200 bucks to pick it up and get it out of the way...

Worst POS I ever had the misfortune to get behind and operate, I worked loading and unloading one for about a year while in school...

There were no “good old days” that crap all sucked...

What is amazing is how manny manual presses are the exact same design I worked on back then... I am continually underwhelmed.

[ol man]

I know this is an old thread, however one of our presses is a precision...love it. Great press if you understand how to maintain it. No this press doesnt have all the bells and whistles,  but if you really know how to print you dont need them...its a poormcraftsman that blames his tools

[Frog]

And the best thing, you can still find 'em for free! 

[Inkworks]

Yup. The shop I worked at many moons ago had one. God-awful thing. We managed to get some shirts out of it, but it wasn't worth the trouble and when the new owner bought the company the old Precision went to scrap as it nobody would buy it.

[jsheridan]

The most fun I ever had running an oval was when it was on the flat bed and we dropped it at the scrap yard. We stopped and got a 12 pack with the money