Leonard Caillouet said:
Which decks? I have never had any trouble finding belts to fit them.
Tritronics has Sony parts and generic belts in the US. I'd start there.
Leonard
Hi Leonard
I used to do a lot of work for a company that did 'buyout' Sony warranty
repairs here in the UK, and we found that on many of the later Sony HiFi
units which contained a tape deck, no parts for the decks were available,
the only listing shown in the service manuals, being for the whole deck as a
sub assembly. We tried to find suitable second source replacements from all
of the 'usual suspects' that supply replacement cassette belts, but found
that they fell between two standard sizes, which were quite some distance
apart, so the smaller one really was too tight, and the larger, too slack.
Maybe the situation is better over there, but I am finding now that with
most new stuff not containing a tape deck any more, finding replacement
belts of all sizes from the normal trade spares suppliers, is becoming more
and more difficult. A few weeks ago, I put in an order to the supplier where
I have always got them from, for a large range of sizes to top up my
supplies. This is something I do perhaps twice a year. Although all of the
sizes were still there in the catalogue, they arrived from the supplier in
dribs and drabs over a period of several weeks, and were in all sorts of
'odd' packages, as though they were struggling to get them too. Several of
the sizes never did arrive ...
Arfa
