[Hallicrafters] Decals - Use of duplicator stensils?
Peter May
peter_may at optusnet.com.au
Mon Aug 15 04:43:45 EDT 2005
Group,
Back in the early 1980s when photocopiers were starting to become quite
common in industry, I was still playing around with old Fordigraph,
Gestetner and Roneo-Alcatel duplicating machines.
These duplicators used various stencils that could be cut on a typewriter,
drawn on, made on a stylus cutting machine or a 3M infra-red copier.
Basically, they were a waxed paper type of set-up, and the ink would soak
through where the wax had been removed.
You might remember these duplicator machines, many of them were
hand-cranked, could be quite dirty to use, I used them to print a small
church newspaper.
Has anyone thought of cutting old duplicator stencils on a dot-matrix
printer and then maybe using white ink on a small roller or felt pen to
produce replica decals direct onto equipment?
I still have some of these stencils somewhere in the shed, maybe I'll dig
them out see what can be done with them. The old duplicator machines are
long gone....
Regards
Peter
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