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From: joltes@husc9.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Need info. on LQP02 belts...
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Date: 15 Nov 90 16:34:50 GMT
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Hopefully someone out there still owns an LQP02 or two...

Harvard still owns a fair number of these machines (DEC Letter-Quality Printers
from "awhile back") but we're having a problem.  The drive belts that perform
printhead movement are drying out and cracking.  The belt is a typical 
reinforced rubber smooth-on-one-side-and-caterpillar-on-the-other type, about
7/16" wide and maybe 3' in length.  DEC still sells them, but only if you also
buy a replacement printhead (so it costs you $105 for a new belt...:-{ ).

Luckily, though, I have a belt that's marked "Chemi-Flex 504T83" (it doesn't
anymore...) and am trying to find a source.  Anyone else out there discovered
one?

Thanks in advance.  If I receive enough "please tell me too" responses (and an
answer as well) I'll post the source to the net.

Dick Joltes					joltes@husc9.harvard.edu
Mgr. of Hardware & Facilities
Harvard University Science Center