[GreenKeys] oiling tape?

[Pete Lancashire]

You should really use oiled tape. It does not take much to
wear down a punch pin. Be interesting if someone could come
up with an oiler something like on a chain saw where oil is only
dispersed if there is movement.

But a few rolls of un-oiled ? be nice to know what the percent
wear is. Not like we are going to punch another 1,000 rolls.

Did Teletype (r) ever make carbide pins for the 14/28/35 ?

Not unoiled but ..

When at Burroughs one computer room had 2 BRPE punches
with carbide pins and were for punching the tapes for the
Gardner-Denver wire-wrap machines. The tape was
mylar-aluminum-mylar if i remember right.

One day an engineer needed a roll of tape for the ASR-35 in our lab. Well he
didn't ask us dumb tech's and took a roll of the mylar tape. Thing needed new
punch pins before the roll was consumed.

-pete

PS The mylar chad was great for parties ..




On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:42 PM,  <dmm at lemur.com> wrote:
>
> Don House wrote:
>
>>NEVER USE UN-OILED PAPER TAPE IN TELETYPE MACHINES.
>
> Ok, so if I have a case of un-oiled paper tape (which was free)
> that would be nice to use someday, is it possible to oil it?
> I don't expect ever to be punching that much, so methods which would
> have been impractical in real production aren't out of the question.
>
> Regards,
> David M.
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