These are the original ones from forever ago that I know of:
14.13 Where can I get new pinch rollers or drive belts?
Projector-Recorder Belt Company
Whitewater WI USA
800-558-9572
On 5/11/2010 7:03 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Hi, All,
I've been fiddling with PETs lately and have found to my dismay that
my original c. 1978 C2N just doesn't push the tape along as fast as it should.
I opened it up, cleaned some minor funk out of the innards, but the old drive
belt is just a little sloppy and has a kink on it where it sat around the motor
pulley for a number of years between uses. The symptom is that FF and REW
speeds are not uniform, there's no real "grab" when pulling on the belt or
manually spinning different pulleys, and there is visible slackness in the
belt. Loads are spotty, and they mostly fail. The "secret" trick of
holding down
the ">" key when the tape is moving does show that the CPU sees flux
transitions, but it fails to recognize what's on the tape(s) as valid data most
of the time. I know the tapes are good, and a slipping belt explains all the
observed symptoms.
It's an easy enough part to replace, but does anyone know where to
get a proper replacement from? It's a continuous rubber belt, with a
square cross-section just under 1mm on a side, probably about 250mm-
300mm long, give or take a bit (I didn't measure it). It looks entirely
ordinary in the context of 1970s cassette transports.
Thanks,