'melted' tape roller

From: Geoffrey Thomas <geoffreythomas_at_onetel.net.uk>
Date: Wed Feb 4 14:43:40 2004

Only too true, not too long ago , a company was advertising the bare rubber
sections for pinch rollers etc. for almost any Vcr you could mention - I
haven't seen them advertise for months , and the phone no. is no longer
valid. - They are (were?) JJ Electronics somewhere in London nw9.

Geoff.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf_at_siconic.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 4:31 PM
Subject: RE: 'melted' tape roller


> On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Witchy wrote:
>
> > Hmm. Pity the only good repairs place round here closed down a couple of
> > years ago; never found out why. There's one more but he's one of the
> > grumpiest people I've ever come across.
>
> You would be too if everyone just threw out their broken VCR and bought a
> new one instead of trying to have it repaired :\
>
> --
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
> International Man of Intrigue and Danger
http://www.vintage.org
>
> [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage
mputers   ]
> [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com  || at
http://marketplace.vintage.org  ]
>
Received on Wed Feb 04 2004 - 14:43:40 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Fri Oct 10 2014 - 23:36:41 BST