[GreenKeys] Butterflying paper tape

Sun Mar 20 22:40:19 EDT 2022

Oh wow, lots of neat accessories!

I think I successfully butterfly-ed a tape, see pic :)

I will try and make a video soon, need to practice a bit before I can keep
up with the BRPE.

-Eric

On Sun, Mar 20, 2022, 7:09 PM Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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