[Coco] Floppy drive belts

[Greg Law]

From: Gene Heskett
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 10:07 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] Floppy drive belts

> Likely made out of a very expensive grade of unobtainium by now.  I would
> first check to see if the motor is mounted in slots, which would allow its
> bolts to be loosened and slid so as to restore some of the lost tension.
>
> And this might sound crazy, but one of my now head worn Tandon 100-4's 
> also
> suffered from that,  I removed the belt, took 1/16" out of it, then butt
> glued the two ends of the cut back together with superglue.  It worked 
> just
> fine for 3 or 4 years!  Then about 4 years ago I went to upgrade the emc
> install on my milling machines box, but found the cdrom drive's belt that
> opened and closed the drawer had gone slack, so I took about 3/32" out of
> it, and superglued the butt end of that teeny little square section belt
> back together.  Still working just fine.

I am so disappointed... I just knew there was going to be at least one 
rubber band in that story somewhere. :-)

I'd never even thought of using superglue to glue the ends back together.