[GreenKeys] What’s this?

[Paul Heller]

I remember when I was just starting out with this hobby - one of the first machines I got was a 28 tape punch. I turned it on and it just punched out tape. I did even not know what a loop was at that point, and did not have a working TU yet. I had not yet met Jack Hart, my eventual mentor (Elmer in ham speak).

I wanted it powered on so that I could try to figure out how it worked and could fix a problem I was observing, but out came tape. A lot of tape I did not know how to stop it. We just can’t afford to waste tape! That is when I partially figured out what the selector magnet did. I also discovered that, in the small set of tools that I was given at the time, I had a spring to hold the selector magnet closed.  It was a great learning experience. 

This mod might have been useful (I would certainly use it now on that punch), but then maybe I would never have figured out how the tape punch works. 

Paul
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> On Aug 3, 2019, at 3:18 AM, Steve Garrison <steve.n4tty at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Jim are you saying that this mod actually keeps the reperf from even punching a blank?  I can see that could be very useful if the loop did go open.  Saving a lot of tape possibly.  But I have a demo that punches eyeball characters in a tape producing a banner similar to what you see on LED matrix boards.  I use the blanks as spaces in my messages.  Luckily none of my reperfs have that mod.
> 
> Steve G./N4TTY
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> 
>>> On Aug 3, 2019, at 12:04 AM, Jim Cooper <jim.w2jc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 2 Aug 2019 at 22:50, John, W9DDD wrote:
>>> 
>>> Which makes no sense to me, why do
>>> you need to delete a blank, it's a
>>> NOP. 
>> 
>> because if the loop goes open you will punch 
>> miles of tape with only the tiny center holes ... 
>> 
>> 
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