[GreenKeys] Model 14 Typing Reperforator questions

[Larry DeSoto]

I don't know about the printing but yes, it is a chadless reperf.  The punch 
block is open on one side so that the chads are not completely cut through. 
We used to take them and make endless test loops by putting a leader on both 
ends then carefully pushing the chads on the front end of the tape up into 
the matching holes at the rear of the tape.  The tapes loop around so you 
don't have to load them again.

Larry - WA5MLH


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derek Cohn/WB0TUA" <vibroplex at mindspring.com>
To: "Greenkeys ((E-mail))" <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 4:31 PM
Subject: [GreenKeys] Model 14 Typing Reperforator questions


Hi Everyone,

I just got a Model 14 Typing Reperforator and have a few questions.  Seems 
to run ok so far on my fox box.

1) The perforations in the tape don't go all they way through and don't 
create a pile of chad.  I believe I have heard of "chadless" reperforators 
and perhaps that's what this is.   Is that correct that the reperforator 
should leave the chad "hinged" onto the tape or should it punch all the way 
through with the chad ending up in some collection box?

2) Printing is almost non-existant.  I replaced the ribbon with a known good 
ribbon but there is hardly any printing on the tape.  Ribbon advances 
normally and reverses when gets to the end.  If I had to guess, I think the 
ribbon has so much tension on it that when the typebars hit it, they don't 
have enough force to smack the ribbon against the paper.  It did print for a 
few letters prior to my changing the ribbon but only the faintest of images 
now.  My thinking is that I have the ribbon strung incorrectly or there is 
some mechanism for adjusting the tension.

Here are a couple of photos:

Here's the stringing of the ribbon:

http://www.mindspring.com/~vibroplex/reperfb.jpg

Here's a close up of where the typebars hit the ribbon...

http://www.mindspring.com/~vibroplex/reperfa.jpg

Thanks for any help you guys can give me!

Derek Cohn
Morse Telegraph Club - Alton Chapter
Office UD, Sine DJ
Amateur Radio Station - WBØTUA
1969 Brunswick M274A5 Mechanical Mule
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