Re: Digest Number 212

>Message: 14
> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 19:04:49 -0500
> From: Roland Friestad <cardinal.eng@...>
>Subject: Paper Tape Punch
>
>Help!! - The tape punch for my 21 year old Wire EDM machine has died and the
>company that made it no longer exists - Does anyone know where I can pick up
>a used working tape punch, preferably cheap - 8 level tape - RS-232?
>
>Any help would be appreciated
>Roland
>

[Have you thought about trying to connect the punch-tape reader (or its
RS232 port) to the parallel port of a computer, and doing away with the
tape altogether? Some people have been telling me this is possible for my
old milling machine, so I don't see why it wouldn't work with your EDM.]

Andrew Werby

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