remaining frame along which the bearing housings of the calender rolls formally rode application_number US 2712101 A description referring more particularly to fig1 4 wherein like numbers refer to similar parts a calender 20 is shown in fig1 and 2 the calender 20 has two spaced apart frames 24 to which weldments 38 are bolted a top roll 28 is mounted on the weldment 38 for rotation a bottom roll 26 is mounted for vertical motion on hydraulic pistons 72 and is slidably mounted to the weldment 38 a plurality of intermediate rolls 34 are placed one above another so that when the top roll 28 bottom roll 26 and intermediate rolls 34 are brought together they form calender nips 29 therebetween the calender 20 may be constructed as a rebuild where the rolls 26 28 34 of an existing calender and portions of the frame 24 of an existing calender are used in the construction of a new calender 20 because of the considerable cost of the calender rolls generally and particularly of the bottom roll 26 and the top roll 28 which will normally be variable crown rolls reuse of the calender rolls will save considerable cost reuse of the part of the frame 24 saves the cost and time of constructing a new frame and foundation in a supercalender where.