Ever since I started punching rolls (and now perforating them) paper
has been a problem.  Dry waxed paper is supplied 12 inches wide, and
for two years I used paper 140 mm wide [5.51"] which I slit on a
homemade machine.  Now that I have the perforator that trims as it
punches, I use 6" wide paper.  I could never get my homemade paper
slitter to work for very long before it tore the roll and I had to
start over.

I had some cardboard cores made up at a local paper core factory.
In talking with the owner he said he could not make the small player
piano type cores because he did not make cores that small. He said,
"I would have to slit the paper and it would not be worth it to me."
At the time the remark did not register.

Yesterday morning, faced with a large order for rolls and no dry wax
paper 6" wide, I called the owner of the paper core factory and
explained my problem.  He told me to bring the paper out.

When I saw the slitting machine, it simply said to me "very old",
since it was flat belt driven.  We slit the paper and I watched in
amazement as he sliced a whole 40-pound roll of dry waxed paper into
two strips exactly 6" wide.  The look on my face must have brought out
his next remark:  "You want one?  I have two more in the warehouse."

Well, now he only has one in the warehouse; the other was still on the
back of my truck when the pictures of the listed URL were taken, but
I played with it and made up the following web page of the pictures.
Here is the URL.  Enjoy!!

  http://www.txdirect.net/~egaida/slitpap.html

Now no more worries about the correct width paper.

Ed Gaida