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Tape Moisturizer
Moisturizer for gummed paper tape

The enciphered or deciphered output from Fialka was either printed on a narrow (10 mm) paper tape, or combined with the punched holes of a standard telegraph 5-level paper tape. In order to be able to glue the text onto a pre-printed message form, some tapes were pre-gummed with water-activated glue.
 
Several types of tape moisturizers were used in combination with Fialka. The image on the right shows a typicial moisturizer that was found with a Fialka in the former Czechoslovakia. It was used for the narrow 100 mm paper tape that was used for text output.

More images of this device below. Also in the pictures below is a different version of the moisturizer that was used in combination with the wider paper tape.
  
Narrow tape moisturizer

 
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