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USSR Rotor Fialka ZIP →
Moisturizer for gummed paper tape
The decoded 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.
When creating telegram-style messages, the text was
usually printed on the narrow pre-gummed 10 mm tape and and glued onto a
message form. The glue at the back of the tape was activated by means
of a moisturizer.
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Leaving the Fialka machine at the left, the tape is guided through
the moisturizer in such a way that the water-activated pre-gummed back is brought in
contact with the white wheel at the center. The white wheel in turn,
picks up a few drops of water from the lower part of the unit.
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 in combination with the narrow 10 mm paper tape in the manner
described above.
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More images of the moisturizer can be found below.
The pictures also show a different version
that was used with the wider 5-level telegraph paper tape.
These types of moisturizers were probably only supplied to Fialka users
in fixed command posts and communications centres.
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A more compact tape moisturizer was supplied with every machine, as part of
the so-called ZIP box,
along with other accessories and spares.
It is shown in the image
on the right, but as only a limited number of complete ZIP boxes
have been found, it is quite possible that alternative moisturizers, such as
the one shown above were also distributed.
➤ More about the ZIP box
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