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Belts for Advent 201

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bzb882

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Does anyone know a source for the belts for an Advent 201 cassette deck? I e-mailed LPGear over a week ago, and no response. WebSpareParts offered to send me free samples so as a last resort I could go that route. There is a guy on epay selling a kit, but its only two belts where the deck needs three. His feedback is not the best, and a fellow AKer told me he recently got his belts off of that website, but wished he had gotten shorter belts...
 
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dankik said:
Here are another couple of sources for belts:
turntableneedles.com
https://www.turntableneedles.com/find10.asp?manfg=ADVENT&modelname=201&Select=Model
(Looks like there are 2 belts and 2 drive tires, but tires are out of stock.)

If you know the belt size, some people on AK buy from Russel Industries (PRB).
http://www.russellind.com/prbline/prblinecom_.htm#
Look at the PRB catalog for square belts.
Hope this helps.
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Gary Stork at www.thevoiceofmusic.com might be able to rebuild your idler tires. Call and ask him. Alternatively Terry's Rubber Rollers.
 
Thanks for the responses. I'm going to call turntableneedles the first chance I get (wife is having knee surgery tomorrow). The two belts pictured below each has its own part number in the service manual, but they both measure 17 cm for me. The two belts that turntableneedles has listed are each very close to that measurement so I'm guessing either one can be used in either position. I don't see the capstan belt listed. I need to do a better measurement with some string, but doing some quick and dirty math I'm guessing its close to 28 cm. I don't have a set of calipers, so for now I can't say how wide it is (its rectangular). I did find out that the Wollensak 4765 and the Heathkit AD-1530 both use the same transport. That may come i handy. More to follow,

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I picked up a 201 a couple of weeks ago and had no luck finding the correct belt sizes either. I ordered a set of 100 assorted square belts for ten bucks on eBay, several sellers have these sets. I haven't dug into my 201 yet (too many other projects going on) but I'll report back when I do.

The 201's transport is pretty common (Wollensak made boat loads of them) and I was surprised to find the lack of info on belt sizes out there. Maybe it's because so many are still working just fine! Mine is one of those, but I wanted to have a new set on hand for when replacement time comes.

As a side note, I bought this machine to digitize 50+ tapes of my father and uncle playing guitar throughout the 1970s, most are pretty poor quality. I played a few high quality "store bought" tapes on it and was very surprised at how good this machine sounds! It's definitely a keeper.
 
So, I have the same issue in finding a belt set. The eBay source turned out to not be able to fulfill the order. I am curious if the "universal" belt collection provided a solution.
 
Did you try to look here. They seem to have a large assortment of sizes.
http://www.russellind.com/prbline/prblinecom_.htm#
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Measure the belt length (with a piece of string, or the old belt), subtract a bit for tension, and you have the length that you need. Then compare it to the dimensions in the table. See if the table above corresponds to your Advent deck. I don't know about the ST.815?
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