[GreenKeys] Ribbon Warning

[Pete Lancashire]

Pretty much the thing to remember keep your old metal spools period.

Don't even try using the plastic spools you're wasting your time and effort.

Now if you came up with the machine without a spool go find a typewriter
repair shop amazingly enough most Cities still have one.

Ask for an old metal spool

On Sun, Sep 2, 2018, 9:25 AM Sheldon Daitch via GreenKeys <
greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> My vague memory of the ribbons supplied for the Extel printers used by AP
> and UPI is that they
> were indeed the nylon ribbons.  It was my understanding that because of
> the dot matrix print head
> on the Extel, the pins could possibly snag in the coarser weave of the
> cotton ribbons and require
> service for the print head.
>
> 73
> Sheldon
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org>
> *To:* Greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
> *Sent:* Sunday, September 2, 2018 9:00 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [GreenKeys] Ribbon Warning
>
> On Sat, 1 Sep 2018, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>
> > Nylon lasts longer than cotton but cotton prints darker. There used to
> > be silk ribbons but I think nylon has pretty much replaced them.
>
> I've had sort of the opposite experience with dot-matrix printers.  Nylon
> was more expensive, cannot be re-used, but gave a crisper print (important
> when you are submitting scripts for broadcast[*]) whereas cotton tended to
> smudge.
>
> I think I ended up doing the draft on cotton, and the final on nylon.
>
> Then we got cheap laser printers :-)
>
> [*]
> VK2WI, if anyone cares; I was Broadcast Officer for years.
>
> -- Dave VK2KFU
>
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