Replace roller rubber on HP 9825 tape drive

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On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Allison wrote:

> >> Tygon is the clear tubing you might find in a chemistry lab.
> >> I don't think the clear stuff at the hardware store is Tygon.
>
> Its a brand of Vinyl.
>
> I'm the one that posted maybe ten years ago about using Tygon Vinyl
> to repair the gooey rollers of TU-58 drives.  I can say for a fact
> that those drives so repaired still work fine.  The only problem
> I've found over time is flat spotting if the tape is left in place.

I would've thought vinyl would be too hard to make proper traction with
the drive roller.

> Even if it did harden in say five years.. a foot of that is enough
> to fix a few dozen drives easily and it's widely available in both
> thick and thin wall types.

It's a given that any fix will need to be re-fixed again in N number of
years as whatever material you use will probably break down.  I figured
the latex would break down sooner than other materials but it was the best
option I had at the moment.

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