XAct_6510Finally got the Atari 1010 cassette drive for my #Atari #800XL. Completely restored, repaired and tested it. Runs beautifully and looks fantastic with the rest of my Atari 8-bit collection. In my opinion, one of the most beautiful 8-bit machines and quite capable too! #retrocomputing #retrogaming not only #Commodore
The Video Game Library 📚@XAct_6510 congrats! That’s very cool!
Spike 
@XAct_6510 so...what's the deal with the photo of the pot of boiling water?
penguin42@XAct_6510 Erm can you explain the boiling of the belts?
@penguin42 @spike The belts were lose and out of shape because of the long time the drive was stored. Boiling them for about 10 minutes give them back some flexibility and the round shape. Works fine as long as the rubber didn't start to turn into gunk.
@XAct_6510 Oh useful! I've got some stuff to fix so that might be useful.
eobet@XAct_6510 Impressive. Everything looks absolutely pristine! 👍
Cheaplehre@XAct_6510 Have you ever had the chance of using or owning the 1027 printer? It surely was odd as hell and it was the first printer I ever owned. Actually used it on my C64 with some sort of interface card.
@cheaplehre No, I never had an Atari 800 XL myself, I first came across one at my neighbour's in the 80s and he didn't have a printer. My first printer was a Citizen Swift 24C on my Amiga 500 and it was actually quite good for a dot matrix printer.