Actually, all of those terms, except one (coffin) were part of my previous life but two.

And I did all of those things as a humble apprentice mechanical. Then the Bottom fell out of the market with the introduction of not-so-humble non-apprentice computers ...

Printing presses up until the beginning of the 19th Century were unreliable beasts, generally using the screw principle to apply pressure to a block which impressed the type on to the paper. I suspect that block was the aforementioned coffin, but that's only a guess.


The idiot also known as Capfka ...