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Hello Wayne - 

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CA>> Occasionally you get lucky and that part has remained the
CA>> same used for several generations of 'new' machines. It
CA>> happens just not often enough. 

WC> A good thought and perhaps true but I recall my
WC> frustrations in attempting to buy belts for otherwise
WC> perfectly good HiFi reel to reel recorders. I still
WC> maintain a nylon gear driven eccentric cam would have done
WC> the job better and more reliably. All the belt did was bump
WC> a plate in back of the paper causing a sheet to be fed to
WC> the feed roller. 

The other side of the coin is that once a bad design is
incorporated into a product and tooled up for a company will
continue with that design for as long as they can. Even
knowing the design is fubar'd they plod along using it anyhow.
:-\ 

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