[GreenKeys] chicken punch

[tony j. podrasky]

Only thing I saw close to that was a jig for splicing
chadless tape or making loops: You'd run an inch of LTRS
at the beginning and end of your tape, put the beginning
of the tape into the jig, put the end of the tape over it
and close the top of the jig. Needles would come up and
push one set of chads into the other and make a pretty
much unbreakable splice/loop.

Of course, we poor hams would use out model 14 TD to
do the same thing...

73,
W6ESE - tony
NNNNZCZC

kf9nz at juno.com wrote:
>  What we (on the old B&O RR comm dep't) called a chicken punch is
> two pieces of steel riveted together at one end, with a small hole in the
> other end of one piece opposed by a small pin. When you insert something
> (a chicken's comb or a piece of perforator tape) between the two and
> squeeze, it produces a small hole - just the size of the holes used in
> perforator tape.  In the chicken, it was used to insert a tag identifying
> the animal.  In the perforator tape it was used to "letter out" or
> otherwise correct an error - a sort of last resort to save a long tape
> with only one error.   Mine is stamped "NAT'L BAND NEWPORT KY"   Just
> wondering if any of you old time Ops ever heard about this gadget.
> 
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Tony J. Podrasky | The best index to a person's character is
                  | a. how he treats people who can't do him any good, and
                  | b. how he treats people who can't fight back.
                  |                                     -Abigail Van Buren