[GreenKeys] Why no reels?

[John, W9DDD]

5 bit tape at 11/16" in width is about 17.5 mm.  Wonder how sloppy the 
specs are on the 16mm film reel are?  Too bad I didn't check it out back 
in the days of feeding 16mm projectors at the TV station.

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John, W9DDD

On 3/23/2022 5:23 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
> In fact, both motion picture and recording tape reels were made with 
> removable sides. The standard 10-1/2 inch tape reels consist of side 
> pieces fastened to a core with screws. The tape could be bought on 
> cores. When you used it you put sides on (wrong word but I can't get 
> the right one). The cost of the tape was slightly lower on cores. Some 
> recording machines wound uniform enough to work with cores only. In 
> fact, the tape used for cassette duplicating came on cores.
>     Film also came on cores and some reels were made to fit on the 
> cores. Typically 35mm raw stock came on cores and, in editing could be 
> left on a core rather than transferring to a reel. Flanges. There 
> that's the word that was escaping me. For film generally raw stock 
> could be gotten on camera spools with flanges up to about 100 feet in 
> length. More than that came on a core.
>    I am not sure of the standard widths of the paper tape used for 
> telegraph and teletype but wonder if it fits on 16mm film reels.
>     I can understand not using reels for torn tape operation since the 
> length of the tape seems to have been typically a few feet.
>
> On 3/23/2022 2:44 PM, Nick England wrote:
>> You can see photos of some winders here.
>> https://www.navy-radio.com/rtty-misc.htm 
>> <https://www.navy-radio.com/rtty-misc.htm>
>>
>> One side of the reel is removable so that you can remove the roll of 
>> tape. Unlike movie film or magnetic tape, rolls of paper tape weren’t 
>> permanently stored on reels.
>> Nick
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 5:01 PM 1oldlens1 <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com 
>> <mailto:1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Are these anything like motion picture or recording tape reels?
>>
>>
>>
>>     Sent from my Galaxy
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>>     From: Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net
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>>     Date: 3/23/22 1:48 PM (GMT-08:00)
>>     To: Paul Heller <paul0926 at comcast.net
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>>     Cc: steve bennett via GreenKeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
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>>     Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Why no reels?
>>
>>     There were also some tape winders made by J. H. Bunnell. The
>>     ones I'm
>>     familiar with are small reels, like about 5 inch diameter and
>>     powered
>>     by a wind-up spring like a clock spring.  This was probably
>>     big enough
>>     to hold a day's production in a smallish Western Union office.
>>
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