Replace roller rubber on HP 9825 tape drive

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On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:

>  I'm not sure how it works. The 10% number is not even
> close. It is more like 0.5% or so. It does take up slack
> over time. I think it has to do with the stretch of the
> belt. There is more tention on one spool than the other,
> making one side move a little faster than the other.
> The one spool getting the more stretched belt would tend
> to move a little faster than the side without stretch on
> it since it would see more effective belt movement.

I would think that the faster spindle has a smaller diameter than the
slower one.

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