3 Feb
2004
3 Feb
'04
5:18 a.m.
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Witchy wrote:
I've seen this phenomenon on the likes of printers
etc but I've never seen
it on a tape drive. Basically the rubber that used to surround the wheel
that controls FF/REW/Play functions on the tapedeck in my newly acquired
Sharp MZ80B has melted to a sticky black compound that's run down the
housing and gummed up the tape wheels.
Pretty common. We've discussed this at length at least a couple times
before. It might be worth a while poking through the archives (er, well,
Google, since the archives are in a sem-permanent statis at this point).
If you can't find a similar tape mechanism then you may want to make a new
one. Tony Duell had some good suggestions for this.
And I guess as far as long term storage, keep your tape drives in a cooler
environment with, what, at least 50% humidity?
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