From: kr-lund@nogarbage.online.no   
      
   R Flowers wrote:   
   > "Knut"  wrote in message   
   > news:43be7016$0$15791$14726298@news.sunsite.dk...   
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   >>...I tried several glues without success and as a very last resort I sewed   
   >>it back together with a very small needle and thread. The belt is square   
   >>so I did one loop each way. To my surprise this still works, the joint is   
   >>not perfect but it doesn't   
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   > Holy cow, that works?!   
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   > Tell me something - when you were sewing tiny stitches into a rubber belt   
   > for an ancient tape drive, did you start to question your sanity? :)   
      
   no, not crazy, more like desperate... I had one tape I wanted to read   
   and no good alternative. Buying a suitable cassette player was already   
   difficult. Actually eBay sellers have changed since then to allow   
   sending to Norway so now there are alternatives.   
      
   > I used to have a boss that had a passion for deer hunting. He told me he was   
   > sitting immobile in his tree stand one cold winter's day, the temperature in   
   > the teens. As he brushed the icicles away from his mustache, he started to   
   > question his sanity. What kind of thing would motivate him to freeze his   
   > mustache for his passion? I often think the same thing when I'm slaving over   
   > 20+ year old equipment that 99.9% of people would throw in the dumpster.   
      
   :-) I'm a scavenger, I patrol the electrical garbage at work, nowadays   
   all pc stuff but I have a grand collection of old pc's too.   
      
   It is actually collecting the half old stuff that is crazy... which I do   
   but they will eventually get old too. Many people think a 25 years old   
   working computer is kind of cool, my oldest is from 1978, a model I.   
      
   Knut   
      
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