First post, by Nexxen
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Hello,
I have this tape since from 1997. After a wee while it was stored and never used again.
I wanted to read an old cartridge but it wasn't doing anything, just spinning and diagnosing the unit as defective.
As you can guess, I opened it and saw that the rubber around one of the heads capstans (I think it's just a wheel that drags the tape or pushed the tape on the "magnetic" head) was more like Nutella than anything.
A black sticky paste a little thicker than toothpaste.
Now, I have no idea how to repair it as I don't have the right thickness value and material to replace it with.
In the pictures it's the wheel on the left, that still displays some black remnants of the was rubber. 😀
If anyone can give advice you are more than welcome.
Edit: Software used is Ditto tools 5.1a on wayback machine:
https://archive.org/details/TAPEW51_EXE
works with win98se
PC#1 Pentium 233 MMX - 98SE
PC#2 PIII-1Ghz - 98SE/W2K