Hi Robbie and Jody,

    Here is a retransmit (at Robbie's request) which may have been incomplete.
Enjoyed your message(s) Robbie, I too get a little "punchy" in the early morning hours!

    BTW, in the absence of any statement in the service manual about the
brake's purpose being to maintain constant paper tension, I'm going
to go out on a limb and say I don't think that is it's purpose.  That
would *seem* logical, but I believe it's real purpose is simply to avoid
the skidding problem.  The service manual says (quote) "It is for the
purpose of holding back the note sheet so it will wind tightly on the
take-up spool." (unquote), an oversimplified statement IMHO.  It doesn't
say that this is accomplished by maintaining constant paper tension, and
in fact, I believe that constant tension (if it could be achieved) would
tend to make the problem worse.  The way to make this work is to have a
DECREASING tension curve as the roll plays and this is exactly the way
the needle valve/pneumatic/brake band work.  Whether this was the intended
engineering result or a lucky experiment that worked is a matter of conjecture.

        "Make mine a Millers"  -JRG

 [ Editor's Note:  It would appear that some private correspondence
 [ took place between John Grant and Robbie Rhodes this weekend, and that
 [ Robbie "lost the bet".  It appears that Robbie's buying the beer...  Jody

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