19 Jan
2013
19 Jan
'13
4:52 a.m.
On 1/15/2013 11:43 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
Just to close the loop here (at least on this portion of the repair) the
replacement transistor arrived today and after replacing it (and the
rubber o-rings) everything appears to be working smoothly, I'm able to
save and restore programs to/from cassette tape. Now to find some
shorter cassette tapes, these 60-minute jobs I have seem excessive for
the task at hand ;).
Next up: Repairing the mag strip reader and the printer.
- Josh
Yes, that
looks like a simple repair.
It is, Again, the articles I sent include a
step-by-step strip-down of
the HP9830 tape drive, I thin kthe 9865 one is very similar. BAsically
you have to rmeove the motor assembly (take off the rear bracked and the
motors o nte beam just slide out. Then either fiddle the new rigns in
palce, or remvoe the front panel, the circlip o nthe cassette spindle and
the leaf spidng from the back of the drive wheel, and slide the spindle
out. It takes longer to describe than to do.