Recently acquired a Teac MT-2ST SCSI
cassette tape drive and am
attempting to recondition it.
Although it does have direct drive
motors on both reels (no rubber bands),
the design is still plagued by having a
rubber roller "tire" on its encoder
roller which has turned to a very sticky
goo for half its length on my unit.
Thankfully, Bitsavers not only has the
service manual for this unit, but
also photos! This photo shows the
encoder roller and tire:
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/teac/MT-2ST/photos/2.JPG
The tire appears to be 1 cm wide, 1.5mm
thick, and ~1/4" tall (for
the 1/4" tape). The tire is inset into
the metal roller wheel.
Has anyone successfully attempted
replacing this tire, and if so, how
did you do it?
I've removed the tire -- half of which
was pure goo -- and am thinking
maybe to fill the tire inset void with
an elastomeric caulk, smoothing it
out to meet the outer edge of the rest
of the roller.
A really short rubber band about the
size of a pinky finger would work
nicely also.
Thank you-
-John
