[GreenKeys] resurrecting papertape. was: How was paper tape oiled ? ...

[simon]

How deep has the gum gone into the roll? you could try to dip the roll 
into white spirit or even thinner, or are there written or printed marks 
on the roll?



On 13-08-15 05:16, Chris Elmquist wrote:
> whatever the "oil" is, it eats rubber.  I have a large number of tapes for Altair 680 that were stored with a rubber band around them to keep them rolled up and in every case, the rubber band has melted into the tape and made a hell of a mess of it. Most of these tapes won't feed through the M33's reader now. One of them is an _unopened_ copy of Microsoft BASIC for the 680 which sadly now is only a gooy mess inside a small plastic bag.
>
> Chris N0JCF
>
> On August 12, 2015 5:12:43 PM CDT, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Jones, Douglas W wrote:
>>
>>>>> What was the oil ?
>>>>
>>>> Midnight Oil, of course :-)
>>>
>>> Does it burn?  For that matter, has anyone tried KS7470 in an oil
>> lamp?
>>
>> Well, the Beds were certainly Burning...
>>
>> OK, you need to be a rock-n-roller to understand the reference.
>

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