[GreenKeys] Boehme

[Richard Dillman]

>   Very cool to see the Boehme tape reader in operation.
>
>   There is a bottle of 'mucilage' glue near the reader -  it that what 
>you use to glue the paper tape to make a loop?

Hi, Dave.  Yes, that's right.  But like everything else around here there's a story.

All the historic photos of KPH show bottles of LePage's mucilage with the classic "pig nose" top scattered about the operating positions.  When we got here there was just one left and its contents had become rather thick.  So of course I called up LePage's to order more: "Yeah, send me a half dozen bottles of mucilage..."  After a bit of silence the guy said, "Who is this?  We haven't made that stuff in 20 years."

We ended up importing several bottles from Canada.  And man, that stuff is *exactly* what you're looking for to make a loop or edit Wheatstone punched tape.  Elmer's isn't in it.  The supply we have now will allow us to meet any paper tape eventuality.

Best,

RD

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Richard Dillman, W6AWO
Chief Operator, Coast Station KSM
Maritime Radio Historical Society
http://www.radiomarine.org
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