[GreenKeys] ribbons

[Raymond Cote]

I use to re-ink all my spools of tty ribbon. I have done hundreds as we used tty for ship to shore comm for copy at leads 4 hours a day. Plus i used the same re-inker for my dit matrix printers onboard ship and  at my office at the Univ of Hawaii. I dont know why that system went belly up. It might have to do with the demise of dot matrix printers. Ya think?

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On Jan 7, 2017, at 21:10, Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com<mailto:1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>> wrote:

   I don't have a citation but very long ago ribbons were available in different darknesses. I think this was both cotton and silk. There has been some discussion on the typewriter collector's lists about re-inking ribbons. It can be done with the ink sold for re-inking rubber stamp pads. Sounds messy to me. If you want dark ribbons try Baco.
   Its been so long since I've seen a genuine telegram that I don't remember what the ink looked like.

On 1/7/2017 8:56 AM, Jim Haynes wrote:
Yeah, I think after nylon ribbons became available the customer got to
choose between cotton for  holding lots of ink and nylon for durability
but running out of ink prematurely.  It was probably only hams who would
spend time re-inking ribbons rather than just replacing them.  Well there
was the military with third-party ribbon re-inker attachments.  I don't
think anybody else tried to use them.

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Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com<mailto:1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
WB6KBL
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