black paper tape = mylar?

From: Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com>
Date: Thu Oct 9 15:57:54 2003

> That sounds interesting, how is it oiled? I had thought about that
> before, and I couldn't imagine just dunking a roll of paper in oil, or
> spraying it with oil or something. How oily is paper tape anyway? I
> don't have any oiled tape, although I need to get some for my ASR33. I
> have been using strips of computer paper to test, but I am worried that
> the unoiled paper might wear down the punch. I thought about having a
> stack of junk fanfold greenbar cut into 1" strips on the big machine in
> at work, but since it wouldn't be oiled, I don't know if it would
> damage anything. Do you really _need_ oiled tape, or can you get by
> without it?

I odn't know how it's oiled (mist probably) but it's oily enoug that if
you leave it on a stack of paper, magazine, clothing, etc it leaves a
nasty stain the next morning.

Haven't touched the horrid stuff in a decade or two but I bet it
ozidizes faster.

Unless you're punching out the assembly source to your FORTRAN compiler
or something I doubt you'll wear out you punch with casual use of dry
tape. You might try running a manually oiled foot or two of tape (punch
RUBOUTs) once in a while to manually oil it. Just a guess.

Chadless 5-level oiled tape is the most 'fun'. Instead of holes it
punches little toilet-seat-shaped "U"s. Umm not so good for optical
readers, but fine for mechanical readers what stick a little rob up the
hole to read. I have an article about different types of readers talka
about readers that blow air through the holes, detected with a little
'sail' on a microswitch, and running the chadless tape over a corner to
tilt out the flaps for optical reading. Sheesh, why bother.
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