I used orange over black tubing designed for carrying water under pressure from Home Depot (here in the US), and then sanded it down to a reasonable O.D. size (IIRC). Worked great.
I don't know that the diameter is absolutely critical - I think it has some kind of speed encoding. On 12/2/2015 6:40 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote: > Dear List > While the silk screeners process the panels I have a > couple of days for a little project > I have a TU-58 and yes it had gooey drive wheels. > Now it no longer has that problem but I have black and gooey fingers.!!! > > I know this issue has been addressed before. > So I think somebody must know where I can get the right tubing to > replace the degraded stuff. > The drive hub is 0.42" and the rubber bit was 0.62" o/d > A UK source would be nice, > > Rod >