Yep, I had him re-rubber a pinch roller a couple months ago. Very positive experience.

anyone done business with terry? i could use new rubber for my tape machine. i was referred to terry'shttp://www.terrysrubberrollers.com

I sent Terry an email since, as I m sure you ve seen, his website looks like it hasn t been updated since the days of Geocities. Just confirming that he was still actively repairing rollers. He got back to me quickly, like within a few minutes. He was upfront about his turnaround time being a bit longer than normal (typically 3-5 days, according to him) due to recently losing his dad.When I actually shipped the roller to him, my tracking number showed it was delivered on 4/16, and he shipped it back out on 4/24.No idea on if he can send you new rubber without the roller. FYI, I contacted him using the Juno.com email address on his site.

Nothing but good experiences with Mr. Witt's work. I've bought at least 3 rollers from him. Good turnaround time, product works as it should, no complaints. We are lucky to have him as a resource, since there are few suppliers of refurbished analog tape machine rubber parts.

FWIW, not all pinch rollers are made of the same material, but Terry does use the same material for all the pinch rollers he's making/re-rubbering. On the other hand, most people don't have any complaints about his pinch rollers.

thanks adam - more specifically, i'm curious about turnaround and whether it's essential to send in the old roller. i suspect it's at least a really good idea to send him the old roller, i just don't want to be down for too long.

thanks again for the info! i just didn't want it to take months. days/weeks is fine. he is indeed doing an invaluable service. just wanted to confirm because, yeah. the website.

I'd still recommend Athan over Terry's for fancy pro tape machines with tight tolerances. I had him do one of our A820MCH, four section pinch rollers and it didn't come together right. Fortunately, Steve Smith in Nashville corrected it for us. All four rollers need to be exactly the same diameter, and spaced appropriately for the transport height. I don't think he had a good example or documentation to work from.For earlier and small format machines, it seems like a great resource.

He re-rubbered the roller for my Otari MX5050 8-track about 7 years ago. Easy to deal with, very reasonable turnaround, and the roller has been fine ever since.

He re-rubbered my MX5050-8, did so quickly, and it worked well.The other option is to get a new roller from Athan. Steve said that back in the day the Athan rollers improved performance enough that it was a considerable "upgrade" from the stock roller.