Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:30:21 -0400
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Repair cheap casette player?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Madeleine Yeh wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:17:20 -0400
>   "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com> wrote:

>> mail-order.  For example:
>>
>> http://www.action-electronics.com/belts.htm
>>
>    Thanks for your information.   I was just about to
> order when I found that a $3.00 rubber belt would cost
> $11.00 in shipping.  Yikes!

I expect they are set up for retailer or repair shop customers, who
would be ordering dozens of different sizes at once, where the shipping
cost is spread out over more parts.

  I might have to grit my
> teeth and pay up anyway but it seems a lot for something
> that could be stuffed in an envelope and sent by US
>  postal services.

I suspect that you can pick up a new player on e-Bay as cheaply, or even
in Freecycle for the cost of picking it up if you keep an eye open for
one.  They might even still sell them new...and I wouldn't expect them
to cost a whole lot if they do.  You could probably get the tapes turned
into CDs by borrowing a player long enough to copy them.

 > I wonder if anyone repairs audio equipment locally.

Probably.  Google or yellow pages.

-- Mike B.