I had exactly the same with a 20/40 DLT drive last Friday.
It was also because the 'leader' (I expect that to be the plastic strip that pulls the tape onto the inside reel) was loose the drive. Taking the transparent plastic top of the rear part, showed that the hole in the tape leader that _should_ fall over the hook in the inside reel had torn/ripped/broken; i.e.: it was no longer able to wind the tape on the inside reel.
As an emergency solution I took my 'McGuyver'-Duck-tape, cut a very fine strip of it, to firmly reattach the tape to the inside reel. (You have put the tape inside the reel first, as when you put duck-tape on the leader before it won't fit through the opening on the inside reel any more where it is supposed to hook on to the pin)
Ofcourse this is only an emergency solution. My question is:
What is the spare-parts code for the strip, (It doesn't bare any markings) and/or how can I obtain a new one ????
I've got detailed pictures of what we did, mail me if you'd like to take a look at them.
