CD Rom drive belt

My friend has an older computer, Win 98, with a Lite-On Cd rom with a belt
drive. So the drawer quit opening and after an inspection I found the belt
was shot. Did you ever try to locate that part? Of course the answer would be
no, for none of you guy or gals would stoop so low as to even a own a
computer that old. A Packard Bell with 8.4 G hard drive. lol. That belt was
darn small and I looked around the internet with no luck and called a couple
of places. They said put in a new one. So I ordered a newer one and while
waiting for it to come I thought that belt looked very interesting. It was
about 1 inch in diameter. Where did I see something like that? Then I
remembered. Last year I changed the o-rings in my kitchen faucet. You know
the one that swings from one side to the other. I had gone to our local
hardware store where they sell these and the clerk reached in their o-ring
assortment and said this is what you need. Well a 1/16" x 1-1/16th" diameter
ring was a perfect fit and you can reach through the drawer to replace it. It
works fine and no need to diassemble anything. (which I did). Anyone want to
buy a new CD rom drive?
Kelly

"kbsmith9" wrote in message
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My friend has an older computer, Win 98, with a Lite-On Cd rom with a belt
drive. So the drawer quit opening and after an inspection I found the belt
was shot. Did you ever try to locate that part? Of course the answer would
be
no, for none of you guy or gals would stoop so low as to even a own a
computer that old. A Packard Bell with 8.4 G hard drive. lol. That belt
was
darn small and I looked around the internet with no luck and called a
couple
of places. They said put in a new one. So I ordered a newer one and while
waiting for it to come I thought that belt looked very interesting. It was
about 1 inch in diameter. Where did I see something like that? Then I
remembered. Last year I changed the o-rings in my kitchen faucet. You know
the one that swings from one side to the other. I had gone to our local
hardware store where they sell these and the clerk reached in their o-ring
assortment and said this is what you need. Well a 1/16" x 1-1/16th"
diameter
ring was a perfect fit and you can reach through the drawer to replace it.
It
works fine and no need to diassemble anything. (which I did). Anyone want
to
buy a new CD rom drive?
Kelly

Very interesting. When the same thing happened to one of my CD-ROM drives
many years ago I used a small rubber band (about 1" dia) which I found in my
desk draw. Worked fine.

Very interesting. When the same thing happened to one of my CD-ROM drives
many years ago I used a small rubber band (about 1" dia) which I found in
my
desk draw. Worked fine.


I did the same with my answering machine.... any port in a storm!
Gekko