10 Mar
2006
10 Mar
'06
4:59 p.m.
Hi Tony Duell.
Could you remember this thread below ?
I probalby don't remember this particular thead, you must realise that I
work on many machines....
But I do rememebr the 9915. I don't have a 9915B, but I do have a 9915A,
which I think has the same tape drive.
I have the same system and need some help to
reassemble an HP tape drive.
After disassembling and ultrasonic cleaning of a HP-Tape-Drive for this
HP9915B two parts remaining unassembled.
Two parts, small thin chromium-plated metal stripes, are droped down out =
of
the device during dismantling.
I could not find out where these have to be mounted again.
Here you could see few pictures of these parts.
http://www.nadhh.hanse.de/CMuseum/HP/HPTapeHilfe.htm
OK, I managed to view that with some difficulty...
Assuming the other think in the picture is a normal-size cotton bud,
these are too small to be the buckling-strips from the front panel
buttons (as somebody else suggested). I think they do, indeed, come from
the tape drive.
Theree are guides each side for the tape cartrdige baseplate. In these
guides are little plastic rollers, similar to the pressure roller in an
HP67 card reader. IIRC at least one of these rollers is spring-loaded,
and those strips are the springs. They fit into slots inside the tape
guide before you sxcrew it in place.
IIRC, this is a somewhat painful thing to assemble, even if you did have
a mis-spennt shildhood assembling watches, etc...
I would be really happily if someone could help me to get out where these
parts has
to be placed back into that tape-drive. Could you help me ?
-tony