22 May
2012
22 May
'12
5:38 p.m.
On 5/22/2012 11:44 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
That
didn't do the trick either. I had the older ones I read gooey
enough to catch and wrap around the pinch feed. you have to be careful
to decontaminate it and be sure there is nothing adhesive on it as well
as not protruding thru any feed ways before you try to read it.
I actually found the safest way was to clean it up similar to what Tony
mentions, and then use a TTY.
The other poster who mentioned a unit which had sprocket feed that would
stop, probably had one which could sense over current on the feed servo
to stop in case of such jams. Unfortunately I don't think the ones we
had access to had such a circuit which would work. The ones I had were
both the Remex brands, and several on DG Novas.
Jim
Hi I have a
high speed reader to but I've had troubleswith rubber bands. Th=
> ey leave gunk on the tapes andlayers stick together. On a high speed reader=
> =2C itrips the tape before one has a chance to stop it. Mine is a parallel =
A procket-fed optical reader will wreck the feed holes if this occurs, a
capstan/pinch rolelr one will normally just stall the tape with little
damage. But I think I'd seaprte the layers by hand first just to be sure.