[GreenKeys] Butterflying paper tape

[Nick England]

Teletype made tape unwinders that fed tape from the center. For use after
your motorized or clockwork winder did its job.

https://www.navy-radio.com/manuals/tty/TH-tape-handling-6208.pdf

https://www.navy-radio.com/manuals/tty/sales/Tape_Handling_Equipment_1963.pdf

https://www.navy-radio.com/manuals/tty/sales/pthcat-7001.pdf



On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 6:36 PM Daniel Jones <djones at k6yic.com> wrote:

> The spool winders do make it tough.  I built this stand so after it winds
> on the spool I move the spool to the top bolt and put another spool on the
> bottom and wind it again.  Not the most efficient but it does the job.
>
> I will need to learn the hand method before I run out of the spools I
> found on eBay.
>
>
>
>
> Daniel
> K6YIC
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 20, 2022, at 15:30, Paul Heller <paul0926 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> 
>
> It’s actually pretty easy to do. I learned it from Henning. I’ve been
> doing it between thumb and pinky. The article says do it between the thumb
> and the two middle fingers (fingers 2 and 3, which are held together). I’ll
> have to try that.
>
> What amazed me was how the first guy in the Phu Lam video tied it and hung
> it up in the beginning  of the video- no rubber band required. I watched it
> closely a few times but could not see how he did that.
>
> I used to use one of those Brucknel (?) automatic winders to wind it onto
> a spool as it comes out of the punch so that it doesn’t not end up all over
> the floor. But the spool ends up winding the tape in the wrong direction
> and is basically useless.
>
> Paul
> W2TTY
>
> On Mar 20, 2022, at 8:57 PM, Russ Miller <wa3frp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
>
> Here is a link to the instructions on how to hand wind paper tape courtesy of RTTY Journal:
> https://www.w6iwi.org/rtty/Tape%20winding%20-%20RTTY%20J%2010-77.pdf
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 3:40 PM John <John at tubetestingpros.com> wrote:
>
>> Go to about 4:40 in the video ("William Podolski..."), pause it, switch
>> to full-screen mode, in the settings menu (gear icon) select "Playback
>> Speed 0.25"
>>
>> It makes it clearer what he's doing.  I've got to break out some junk
>> tape and give it a try, but I think I see what's going on. He uses the
>> thumb and little finger to wrap the tape, giving it a half-twist each
>> pass.
>>
>> A new thing to learn! Woo Hoo!
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> John KB6SCO
>>
>> Carson City
>>
>> On 3/20/2022 11:30 AM, Eric Moore wrote:
>> > Hi everyone! Thanks to some help, I have my BRPE running at 110CPS
>> > reliably!
>> >
>> > I am trying to learn to butterfly tape like in this video:
>> >
>> > https://youtu.be/hQG8VRSez_U
>> >
>> > I can not for the life of me figure out what they are doing with their
>> > fingers. It looks like they take the tape back up over the thumb, and
>> > then around the pinky, and there is a twist somehow in the middle.
>> > When I try it just twists the tape into a knot.
>> >
>> > Does anyone have expetience doing this and can talk me through it?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > -Eric
>> >
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