There are people who simply collect and store various vintage items, and there are those who use them periodically. So, for example, the author of Instructables under the nickname DLHopwood sometimes launches a typewriter. So that her tape could be stained, he made an interesting do it yourself interesting and original device.
The master finds in his stocks woodworking waste, an ink pad, a handle from the desk drawer (then he will find another one of the same), various fasteners:
He takes a saw, a clerical knife, a screwdriver with drills, a glue gun, gloves, and also not shown in the following photo pliers:
Plastic nuts add to the bolts of the handle for the drawers:
Collects base from waste wood homemade, drills holes in it, fastens the bolts of the handle for the boxes with plastic nuts, installs the stamp pad, and next to it are two wooden dowels, on each of which several more such nuts are freely rotated - they will be rollers. So that they do not fly off the dowels, fixes the washers with drops of hot glue.
He refills the stamp pad with the paint intended for it, removes the handles for table drawers from the bolts, puts on the bobbins, returns the handles to their places, stretches the tape as shown below, and proceeds to stain the tape:
And finally, shoots a video about his homemade product:
The tape intended for typewriters was used not only in them, but also in some very old matrix printers made in the USSR, Poland, etc. Cartridges with an endless ribbon, ratchet and integrated pillow came to this technique later in the early nineties.
And when you watched this video, did you remember the smell of tape and the roar of levers with letters?