[GreenKeys] Glue for joining punched tape

[Nick England]

I have posted photos and manuals for these three splicers at
http://www.navy-radio.com/rtty-misc.htm

I'm still looking for a source of the pre-punched adhesive splices (317325)
if anyone ever comes across some.

Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com

On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:

> There was also a splicer made by Teletype for the 5-level FAA ADIS system.
> It looked like an enlargement of a magnetic tape splicer, if you ever saw
> one of those things.  Overlap two pieces of tape between guides, clamps
> to hold them down, a knife that cuts a diagonal through the two layers,
> throw away the top loose end, and apply a heat-activated patch across the
> diagonal slice, then trim the sides of the patched tape to correct width.
>
> This was intended for use on blank tape going into the reperforator-
> transmitter stands, so it never ran out of tape.  I don't know how well
> this worked in practice.  You'd have to know the tape was running low,
> reel out enough tape onto the floor to give you time to make the splice,
> then put the new roll on the supply reel.  And then tear off the tape
> coming out of the reader so you could discard the used tape and start
> reeling up the freshly-punched tape.
>
> Magnetic drums and then disks put an end to all that.
>
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