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Today I bought a Hewlett-Packard 9825A from 1976, in a second hand shoop for $3. With all manuals.They did´t know what it was. So I am happy. Robert from Sweden

Damn. That's even better than my $30 tape drive with three tapes!

Have fun! The tape drive often needs work on the old 9825s, but it's not hard to do.

I just paid 325 for my 9125, and the tape drive needs to be redone. Any hint appreciated!

Andreas

Well, I've never actually heard of a "9125", but the problems tape drives on the desktop HP calcs have are pretty much the same as the problems the handhelds have: dirty heads and disintegrating rubber on the drive wheels.

The larger size of the desktop machines makes them easier to work on.

I replaced the rubber on the drive wheel of my 9825 with heat-shrink tubing. It's true! Slide large tube over the cleaned drive wheel, heat shrink, trim with razor blade.

Cleaning the tape head can be done with Q-tips and alcohol.

I generally avoid heat shrink tubing because unless you glue the tubing to the metal base, it will eventually come off.

After doing any repair to the spindle I usually use a sacrificial tape to wind to EOT and then rewind to BOT a couple of times to make sure that the repair can take the heat loads and strain.

Check also the "fix your gummy wheel" section at the end of a previous posting:

http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/forum.cgi?read=61656

**vp