This is the rundown on the Fairchild tapes. The biggest hangup is the player. By the time I found a parts & service manual for it, the website business had already shut down a year before & the lady hadn't taken it down yet as she was in poor health. So, there went the info needed to find or hopefully replicate the reel drive wheel & the search still continues for another manual. The owner's manual I have & when it comes to anything useful, it's as helpful as a stick in the eye.
One option, as was mentioned, is to make one. I have a few rubber rollers that were pulled from a bunch of discarded 8 tracks. They're newer, so they're not decayed & the width & ID were the same as what was there, compared to another roller in the player that looks nearly identical. They also press on to the drive shaft nicely when frozen in the deep freezer. If only there was a way to figure out what the OD is supposed to be. They turn down very nicely. They just need to be cold. Found it worked best to do it in the shop in negative temps. Any warmer & the face of the roller warms up too much & leaves a rough surface.
Another option for viewing the films is pulling them from the cassettes & spooling them. Which by itself is fine. That doesn't account for wrecking the IH labels on the seam to pull them apart & possibly breaking the case. Without the key, you about have to be an octopus to get all the tabs bent at once to pull the halves open. Learned that from the one that is now pulled apart. The film stuck to itself & tried to do bad things in the cassette. Fortunately, the player was opened up at the time & it was caught before it got out of hand. Not before it could double over on itself & pull the film tight on the reel. I got that mess straightened out & now need to re-spool it or wait for it to grow about a 1/2 mm so to get that last little bit of loose film around the spool. Need to figure out some kind of do-hicky first, to make that process go a lot easier.
The last two options are, have one custom made.... which, after reading about some of the prices people payed, is going to be expensive or....
Find one made before the oil embargo when the rubber quality was still good or find one of the last few hundred made in the wee early '80s with the updated drive roller. Then it would be a matter of finding one close. Shipping on the few that I found will make your wallet pucker!!
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