I have also used http://www.terrysrubberrollers.com/, to replace the rubber on the capstan on my Tascam 34B 4-track tape deck. I sent him the pile of mush that used to be the rubber in a ziplock bag, with the metal spindle embedded, and got back what looked a whole lot like a new capstan. You will have to specify the diameter and other pertinent dimensions, as he surely won't have the specs for this one on file! BTW http://www.terrysrubberrollers.com/ is just a guy named Terry, not a big factory or shop. Write him ahead of time with pictures and your needs, and he will tell you if it can be done. It shouldn't cost too much - if it's more than say $60 I would be surprised. Steve From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org] On Behalf Of Martin A Flynn via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 5:24 PM To: vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org Cc: Martin A Flynn <maflynn@theflynn.org> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Univac, our first real work! On 6/16/2016 3:34 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote: On 06/16/2016 03:34 PM, Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic wrote: The capstan problem is typical of any device that handles tape, either magnetic or paper. I have a number of devices with melted capstans. My casual knowledge of other's work, is to either find a similar rubber capstan and transfer the rubber (Bill Degnan suggested this also); or to mill out (as in milling machine) a chunk of rubber to fit. So I'd like to hear about any resolution for this rubber capstan problem. http://www.terrysrubberrollers.com/ They re-did the rollers and bail rollers for my Selectric: JJ Short and associates: http://www.jjshort.com