Tape Deck Repair Parts Pinch Roller/Outer Diameter 12mm/Width 6.5mm/Shaft Diameter 2mm(with Shaft)/1 Piece

well hi all yes back on the pioneer i've been waiting for about two or three weeks for uh some pinch rollers they've finally arrived so i'm going to put them in this machine and hopefully that will cure its ales ailments what i thought i found was that the tape going past the heads just didn't have enough strength and i swapped pinch rollers to see if that would make a difference and initially it did but but then no and uh and the other thing i've noticed is that the because they're both identical they're the the left pinch roller and the right pinch roller but the thing was which i'll give you a picture of it up close that's the right hand controller which i believe has not been working all that well the the left one was in okay condition i tried swapping them to give this one the the most grip and power but yeah it didn't seem to be happy so perhaps uh the original in the left was act