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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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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