On 09/05/2017 10:55 AM, Jon Elson wrote: > Some spring-arm drives had really bad problems with tape slipping. I > know some Pertecs had circular grooves in the capstan to prevent an air > bearing effect. On one of our spring-arm drives, I cut thumbs out of > latex gloves and stretched them over the capstan. This TOTALLY removed > the slipping problem until the latex wore out.
The 7970 capstan has those same grooves. I may resort to the latex trick if OoWG doesn't make it grippy enough. --Chuck
