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[Wayne Durkee]

At Western Union they were all black COTTON ribbons. B-72 Nukote's I think.

There were some purple ones used in stock tickers. I used to come home with blue fingers till I got better at the work. The tickers had a inking attachment to keep the print dark. A total pain to work on.

Wayne
KB1FDW

> On January 7, 2017 at 10:40 AM Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
> I believe Teletype originally used cotton ribbons, because they hold
> the most ink and that's what the users wanted. I believe the nylon
> ribbons were recommended for the later machines which needed more
> durable ribbons. The Model 15 parts book shows 7835 ribbon, black.
> Model 32/33 uses 181129 ribbon, but doesn't say if it is nylon or
> cotton. Then the press associations and W.U. had their own choices of
> ribbons, sometimes using purple instead of black.
>
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