On 9/21/19 10:57 AM, Mark J. Blair via cctalk wrote: I should mirror those. I've got over a hundred TU58s I need to look at some day as well. Fixed the pinch rollers on some TU58s a year or two ago, just too many other things to do.

l?rdag 21 september 2019 skrev Mark J. Blair via cctalk < cctalk at classiccmp.org>: I dumped some 40 TU58 tapes a year ago. I replaced the band directly with 90 mm plastibands without even trying to run the tape. This was my procedure: Open up the tape cartridge. Then the old band was removed carefully by heating it slightly with a heat gun (low temperature). Then I managed to remove it without destroying the tape itself. One can see the tape changes appearance on the surface, then it can be removed. (Thanks to Rik Bos for the advice about heating) There are usually some residue from the band left on the tape. I used isopropanol to remove this by gently rubbing the surface. Sometimes some kind of salty residue has deposited on the back of the tape. Usually at the posts. This was also cleaned gently using isopropanol. Failure to do the last step usually caused the tape to stick during tape winding. Then cleaning the backside helped out. Now the plastiband was installed and the cover put back. I managed to fully recover all but one tape that had one bad block. The bands I used was the 90 mm baumgarten plastibands. The interesting thing is that they are actually japanese made by Nisshinbo and are called mobilon bands. It should be possible to buy from Misumi. https://us.misumi-ec.com/vona2/detail/223000860382/?KWSearch=Mobilon&se… 460 bands for 18 dollars is far better than buying those assorted packs Haven?t ordered myself since they want that you have a company to order. Need to ask a friend to help out. /Mattis