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Originally Posted by duckland 23
... but I remember the tape taking along time to rewind too ... So any other places I can look at to fix the tape getting stuck around the metal pinch rollers after I stop the machine ....
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Those in their prime would rewind a T-120 tape in about 5 minutes, slow by later standards.
The rollers that pull the tape out and wrap it around the head cylinder are the entry and exit tape guide assemblies. The small guide rollers next to angled guide pins can adjust up and down to align the tape to the heads. The supply reel likely has no torque from the old idler to retract the tape into the cassette. Also common are a worn slick pinch roller causing tape to skew, and the back-tension band can lose it's felt lining, comes unglued from age and may fall down onto the top of the chassis, will have no back-tension to keep the tape against the heads and cylinder. Used to replace worn out head cylinder assemblies on those, the machines were good enough overall to go through one or two sets of replacement heads before other stuff like the lower cylinder was too worn out.