[Coco] Floppy drive belts

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 27 September 2013 20:30:45 Greg Law did opine:

> 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.
> 
>
Sorry to disappoint, Greg.  But when all you have is a hammer, everything 
begins to resemble a nail...

Actually I have other stuff that likely would have worked even better but I 
didn't want to sit there overnight holding it long enough for goop to set. 
:)  The fact that it lasted more than a day or 3 was a huge plus, and a 
purely accidental discovery.

Cheers, Gene
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