20 May
2015
20 May
'15
12:48 p.m.
On 2015-05-20 21:36, Al Kossow wrote:
On 5/20/15 12:11 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
I think I have one or two TZ30 somewhere. Maybe I should look more at them.
But the TK50 is really easy to clean. You just remove the 3 screws that
holds the cover plate, and then you just clean the heads where they are.
But yes, you do need to clean the heads a lot on those drives. I believe
I mentioned that in my original reply. :-)
There might be rubber parts in there.
Nope, I like them better than TK50s, though, because you pop off the two
C rings and the head assembly
lifts up to clean, which is necessary after every tape you try to read. TK50 tapes stick or gum up at the ends just like QIC
carts do. I haven't
tried baking them. Thankfully
there are almost none in the queue right now to read and hopefully it
will stay that way.
Interesting. I haven't seen that. And they construction is totally
different from QIC tapes as well, unless my memory is failing me even more.
Johnny