10 Feb
2003
10 Feb
'03
2:39 a.m.
--- Jay West <jwest(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Second:
Looking at the TU-58 drive, the rubber rollers in each drive appear to be
highly questionable - pretty gummy. What's the best way to fix those
rubber rollers?
I don't have the pointers or the exact measurements, but this topic
comes up on the list from time to time - at the suggestion of many
people, Allison Parent first and foremost, I have replaced my gummy
tu58 rollers one by one, with a slice of tygon tubing from the
hardware store. There is a standard stocked size that seems to
work just about perfectly. I have done this for several now, but
have yet to get around to dusting off my PDP-11/44 to do _its_
drives, but the mechanisms are all the same.
I bought about foot for a buck or two and have been refurbing drives
as needed.
-ethan