[GreenKeys] Butterflying paper tape

[Eric Moore]

I have two small hand winders and one full size crank winder. Winding
beginning to end on my hand.

In normal operations I have a tape catch that was purpose built for this
hanging off my computers reader. Once all the tape has spooled into the
catch I just take the end, put it on a winder, and wind it back up.

I recently acquired some fanfold paper tape, but do not have a fanfold
reader. It stacks itself neatly after being read.

-Eric



On Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 12:43 PM Paul Heller <
coloradoradioclubwebmaster at gmail.com> wrote:

> It’s looking good, Eric. Once you get the hang of it, it’s fairly easy to
> do.  But also easily forgotten.
>
> Question: do you wind the tape on your hand from beginning to end, or end
> to beginning? I assume beginning to end, in the order it comes out the
> machine.
>
> For very long runs of tape, the winders are more useful in my opinion. The
> winders occasionally show up, but never the unwinders. I’ve been looking
> for years for an unwinder.  Maybe they were not very popular.
>
>
> Paul
> W2TTY
>
>
> On Apr 17, 2022, at 9:43 AM, Jim Cooper <jim.w2jc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 17 Apr 2022 at 9:57, Eric Moore wrote:
>
> I am using 8 bit punched tape, but luckily I have large hands :)
>
> Are you supposed to be able to feed
> the tape from the beginning? Would you
> hang it off your finger or a nail? I
> tried and it twisted up on itself.
>
>
> when it is wound up on your hand in the
> 'figure 8' style, you should be able to feed
> the tape out FROM THE CENTER and it will
> untwist left then right then left so that there
> are no twists going into the TD
>
>
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