This little bar is a plastic strip the length of an 8.5"x11" piece of paper, with three small pegs on it spaced along the same intervals as the holes in a three-hole-punch sheet of paper. You can tape or glue this to the top of your light table, and lay your copy paper over it to hold it securely in place. When you're working on a character animation sometimes it's hard to get your paper to line up again after you've removed it from the light table, so having one of these helps you get everything in its proper place again. Check your local arts and crafts store to see if you can find one.
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I cannot for the life of me remember the proper name for this next item, or an online listing for one, or an image anywhere, so I'm just going to try to describe what I call a peg bar as best as I can, and hope that you can take it from here. (Update: Thanks so much to Natalie for finding one of the few online stores where you can purchase peg bars.)
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