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Question posted by MSEAMAN248 on August 18th, 2012

Need Assistance With Mt2x Please

Just replaced the drive rubber band, and now I cannot get the cassette to sit in the cassette deck. Is there a trick to getting the area in to a particular position. The cassette went in just fine before I opened and replaced the band...

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