[GreenKeys] TTY newbie - operating questions

[Nick England]

OK, I've managed to get a few of these electromechanical marvels
running, now I'm starting to play with them. Mostly copying WLO and
the odd ham QSO that lasts more than 2.4 milliseconds.....

Sunday I discovered my pal K4OZY (who keeps getting me deeper and
deeper into trouble) has a bag full of TTY art tapes. So I borrowed a
couple of tapes to make some dupes. Then I stood around for *hours*
holding onto the roll and feeding it into the TD on my 28ASR and
printing and punching a copy. Then I spent another couple of hours
winding it all back up (original and dupe).

The last time I was dealing with a lot of paper tapes was back in the
prehistoric computer era where we had a high-speed punch with take-up
reel, a high-speed optical reader with reels, and IIRC a nifty
rewinder made out of an electric eraser.
http://www.virhistory.com/ncsu/varian620-01.JPG

So my question to you wonderfully experienced souls out there is what
do you do about unreeling/reeling tape? - For example if you're gonna
feed anything longer than a 3' piece of tape through a 28ASR, where do
you hang the source tape? Or is it all normally just trash can to
trash can operation?
http://www.navy-radio.com/tty/relay/11Sep690005-vi.jpg

I suffer from not having hung around with any TTY guys when I was a
youngster...then again. maybe I would have turned out even stranger.

cheers,
Nick K4NYW