1 Mar
1999
1 Mar
'99
1:09 a.m.
At 08:13 PM 3/1/99 +1100, you wrote:
Marvin wrote with respect to a HP85:
Hans,
I don't know what causes the "rubber" to turn gooy but I know it's
common
for the drive wheels in ALL of the HP tapes and mag card drives to turn
gooy with age. I took a HP 7912 tape drive apart last week and the "rubber"
had liquified and actually dripped into the other parts of the tape drive
sort of like paint. The HP-85 belts are made of a different material, they
don't turn gooy but just fall apart with age.
My $.02 worth,
Joe
print each iteration of the program. The tape
drive roller is gooey
although it is still round at this point :).
I've often see rubber items on old printers and stuff go "gooey" like this.
Does anyone understand why this happens and whether it is reversible?
Sometimes in 2 different examples of the same machine, one has the problem
and the other hasn't.