23 Aug
2014
23 Aug
'14
6:47 p.m.
I was working on 1/2" tape recovery this week, and wanted to see if the M4
that I got from Guy worked any better that the Qualstar I was using, so I
dug the 9914 back out after a rather frustrating experience earlier this year trying
to get the tach roller resurfaced (it's the only rubber part in the whole tape
path).
It turns out 1/2" ID surgical tubing works just fine stretched over the tach roller.
It's a bit of a challenge getting it over the lip of the roller but once it's
in place it fills in the gap where the original rubber was just fine.
I was able to recover the one bad block on the 1990 MSDP tape I had, so that's been
updated on bitsavers, along with a bunch of other random tapes that were in the to
do pile.