From: "Madeleine Yeh" <myeh at wap.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Repair cheap casette player?
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:04:08 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

   I found a place to get a drive band cheaper and it
arrived yesterday.  I put the drive band on, and screwed
everything back together -- I didn't lose the screws and
it works!!  Is everyone surprised?

    The place that sold me the drive band is
http://www.kenselectronics.com   The part was $5.00, the
minimum price, and the shipping was $4.95.   They sent me
the correct drive band after I described the old one as
"the same width as the edge of a penny and 9 inches long"

   Its such a sense of achievement to correctly fix
something and not have to consign it to a trash heap.
      Madeleine

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:30:21 -0400
  "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> wrote:
> 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.
>