> > I have a box of the repair material somewhere, but I suspect the > adhesive would be useless with the material. Better to manufacture your > own with Williams suggestion, or a simpler one like mine. BTW, we only > used this method with tapes to be read on an ASR33. We didn't have high > speed machines. >
I remember there being the remains of a pinch roller from the KDF9 high speed tape reader that had been destroyed by a bad join in a tape in University of Newcastle data prep room. There was also a warning to re-punch tapes for that reader...... > You can use scotch tape sometimes on units with optical readers, and > dupe the tape from what you read if you need to have a copy w/o a break > in it. > > thanks > Jim