Another rubber capstan turns to mush

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Mon May 5 09:05:00 2003

At 09:20 AM 5/5/03 -0400, you wrote:
>On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 23:53, R. D. Davis wrote:
>> Quothe chuck_at_mail.schillernet.us, from writings of Sat, May 03, 2003 at
08:58:49PM -0400:
>>
>> > Hello All - bah, was just playing with my QIC drive, a WangTek
>> > 5150ES (Using dos tar!) and halfway thru the first listing
>> > tape stops. Turns out the rubber what drives the tape has gotten
>> > very soft. Anybody have a box full of cheap replacements?
>>
>> Oops... it appears that you didn't use the /LCV (lowest capstan
>> viscosity) flag ;-) to prevent the tar command from attempting to turn
>> the rubber capstan into a tarry substance. :-(
>
>No, sure didn't. But that dos tar DOES have the oddity of having an
>-N flag for 'binary', hardly anything saves correctly if you leave it
>out. Anyway, think I'll try auto fuel hose and see what happens.

   Fual line is too hard and slick. See if you get some surgical rubber
tubing. I've been told that it works pretty well. In my experience you have
to match the o.d. pretty closely and also have to pay attention that the
roller is actually round. Some tubing has a seam in it and it's hard to get
the roller to be perfectly round. I try to keep the o.d. within +/- .002"
and keep the runout within .002". Let us know your results.


    Joe

    Joe

>
>--Chuck
Received on Mon May 05 2003 - 09:05:00 BST