Hello! Is the problem that Jeff Jonas relates similar to the one that Dave (Museum owner in PA) related in his "How to wrap a computer for mailing talk" In there he describes what happens to a tape drives rollers when they become mushy, and he then describes how to fabricate a completely new set from ordinary hardware store foam rubber. Incidentally that's how I remember the talk from my first VCF East show, and normally Dave gets a bit picky when I use that reference. Did anyone notice the gliding reptile currently parked next to the electronic warfare aircraft that now lives at Infoage? It gets along with the velociraptor by the warehouse. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 7:14 PM Ian Litchfield via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
That was Thomas, Case, and I in May or June.
I haven’t seen case in a few months but I think they might be on the list?
I need to get a replacement roller from them for my QIC drive.
On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 19:11 Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Several folks at a recent VCF workshop were discussing ways to restore QIC drives with new rollers. Who was that, and has anyone made recent progress? I have many full size QIC cartridges I didn't copy-up in time. ALL my drives (Wanktek, Archive Viper) have failed with gummy rubber rollers :-( And some cartridges have "relaxed" tension bands.
Are there any SIG/BOF or "discussion groups" for folks to continue such projects? Has anyone seen such discussion elsewhere: VCF-nationwide, Computer History Museum, etc?
-- jeff jonas