20 Nov
2012
20 Nov
'12
1:47 p.m.
hardware emulator...
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Rik Bos <hp-fix at xs4all.nl> wrote:
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Namens Chris Elmquist
Verzonden: dinsdag 20 november 2012 19:11
Aan: Classic Computer Talk
Onderwerp: rebuilding DC100A cartridges?
I've recently restored a DEC TU58 dual-transport tape system but am
finding
that 30+ year old DC100A cartridges are perhaps
past the end of their
useful life.
The belts in many of them have rotted and broken.
There are still some places you can get new cartridges, but they are more
than
$40 a piece.
Has anyone found a way to source and replace the broken belts?
I am not interested in preserving the data on the tapes as much as I am
interested in just having working tapes... so I don't get ahead by
moving
a belt
from a "good" cartridge to a bad one.
I'm interested in trying to repair
the bad
cartridges.
I've seen the writeup here, for the HP 9845 and its DC100As,
http://www.hp9845.net/9845/tutorials/savetapes/index.html
but that doesn't tell us what to do about broken belts other than to
steal
them
from other cartridges...
Chris
--
Chris Elmquist
I used the belts from QIC40 tapes, the 3M types worked ok for me.
You need to look that the belt are small enough they're two types of QIC40
belts on small the other a little wider, you need the small ones.
-Rik