[GreenKeys] oiling tape?

[Chris Elmquist]

I wonder if you could find an aerosol light duty oil (ie, in a spray
can but not WD-40!!), spray both sides of a roll and then put it into a
plastic bag or plastic container and let it sit for a while so that the
oil can absorb all the way through the roll...   probably won't be very
uniform but might be sufficient to get enough on there to do the job...

I thought I had read on this list that putting a roll in a plastic bag
with oil was one way to do it...  it seems like you could expedite this
if you start by spraying a fine mist of oil onto the roll.

Chris


On Tuesday (07/20/2010 at 02:25PM -0700), Pete Lancashire wrote:
> yep black was for the optical readers the carbon did a a bit of friction but
> not that much. where we were punching it, the punch had carbide pins
> so it didn't matter.
> 
> I just remember the smell might of been the brand we were using
> but it sure could get pretty rank.
> 
> -pete
> 
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Randy and Sherry Guttery
> <comcents at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > Pete Lancashire wrote:
> >> anyone use the oiled black paper tape ? I remember some that
> >> was like 5 yrs old .. man did it stink.
> >>
> > Not sure...  - we (submarine service) used miles of black tape... If it
> > was oiled - it wasn't obvious - but being black it wasn't obvious.  All
> > of our programs for the SINS (navigation) computers were loaded via
> > optical paper tape readers - which is why black tape. The tapes were
> > punched on Freiden tape machines aboard the tenders from a mylar master.
> > I don't recall one of those punches failing (not the actual punch). The
> > master was loaded in the reader - then one (or both) punches would kick
> > out a copy. Took quite a while (seemed like forever as noisy as those
> > punches were - but probably 20 minutes or so a tape). The optical
> > reader, on the other hand - could load a tape in short order (seems like
> > just a few seconds - less than a minute - but it's been 40 years since I
> > ran one).
> >
> > best regards...
> >
> > --
> > randy guttery
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