N_Cook wrote:

Adrian Tuddenham wrote in message
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N_Cook wrote:

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All rubber parts perished.
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I found the rubber drive belt was unobtainable, but eventually came
across a substitute by following the route taken by my local postman.
For some reason, red G.P.O. rubber bands seem to outlast the ordinary
type you can buy in the shops.


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I can usual fashion-up rubber parts with no problem , rubber tyre, belt and
brakes on this all gone west. I was concerned about the plastic from this
era. Nothing cracked as far as I can see but I'm aware stress can build up
in this sort of plastic and sometimes literally explode to fragments/dust. I
was wondering if there was a way of passivating this potential problem or
monitoring for it.

I've not heard of any particular problems with these machines, although
yours does seem to have had a particularly hard storage life. German
plastics were pretty good in that era (self-destructing neoprene came a
little later).


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