On August 1 I called into Bill's program and among other things I spoke about my RtR woes. A listener named Titus 1:14 contacted me and offered to help me, if possible make a new part to get my old RtR machine working again. The original part was chunks and dust but I did have some photos of it intact. I had been looking for an original, intact part for over a year to no avail. The day after I communicated with Titus 1:14 about this I did a search on eBay and lo and behold there it was! The original part for $14.99! I have since sent off this part and the other problematic part that will also eventually break to Titus so he could refashion new pieces out of material that will not break. I just received back the first part, the play/record cam and it's an exact duplicate that fits perfectly! This is a very talented fellow as this must have been difficult to do! Praise Yahweh! God willing I'll be back to transferring the Swift tapes in the near future!
Here is the original "pot-metal" cam. You can see even on this one the cracks that are developing;

And Titus's precision duplicate;

