OT? DLT4000 has come undone!!!

[Tom Peters]

At 01:39 AM 4/19/2005 +0800, you wrote:
>Help,
>My Quantum DL4000 or DEC TZ88 has come undone...
>IOW, the leader which snares the tape has come loose, and I don't know
>how to wind it back... :-{
>
>The mechanism has 6 heads; I tried to wind it around the 6-headed
>path, but the leader is not long enough, so it must be wound around a
>shorter path...but which one??

is the leader still attached to the plastic spool near the back of the 
drive? You can unhook the clear plastic cover over the spool from its many 
catches / latches and carefully remove it, and turn the spool until you can 
see the end of the leader. Does it have a hook attached to it, in the form 
of a plastic cap with a hole in it? If all you have at the end of it is a 
ragged end, you need a new leader.








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