Tascam DA-30 MkII / DA-40 Dat Machine difficult to find Loading Belt – DA-P1

Description

This is a replacement for the original
difficult to find
Tascam DA-30Mk II / DA-40 Loading Belt that controls the loading and unloading of the tape.
The original Tascam part numbers for this belt were
V00013500A / V00013500B
This belt can often a common be a fix for machines displaying the  “Error 01” related to the dat machine tape loading mechanism. In my experience when this belt isn’t functioning properly it prevents the DAT tape mechanism from loading/unloading the tape, opening the drawer and ejecting the tape. It also prevented the operation of the tape transport controls. While this belt can often fix this issue, there’s no way to know if there are other problems contributing to the machine not functioning properly and thus replacing this belt is no guarantee of fixing this problem 100%.
*I recently received positive report from a buyer that was able to utilize this small belt to repair a Tascam DA-P1 portable dat recorder. It’s possible this belt may work with some of the other dat tape machine mechanisms in the Tascam family but I have no personal experience with this belt on any other models.
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