Are you brave? TK50's have a common failing - the metal fish tape leader
used to grab and feed the tape in the cartridge. If you are comfortable
with it, take the metal cage off the top of the drive, then check to
make sure the fish tape is hooked onto both the reel and a standoff
where the head of the tape would be. That's the only thing I've ever
seen that caused the quickflash.

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J. Buck Caldwell

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