Where can I buy tach tape?

You can buy the MTH tach tape sheet for PS/2 upgrades, I believe I've heard it mentioned that it's $2.  Most of the MTH techs should have it, or order it directly from MTH.  It has tapes for a variety of flywheel sizes and will work fine for the EOB system.  I've used one of the tapes for an EOB tape replacement, runs like a top.

Check with MTH dealers. I know that Bill at Ready to Roll in Miami has it.

You can buy "paper" that is the same material as the tach tape that is blank.  Then print your own.   This method works especially well for PS/2 upgrades to non-MTH loco's as you can get the tach tape "just right" so the S/MPH as well as lashups.

 

Well, the source for the "paper" is a mystery right now.   Besides, for one locomotive with TAS EOB, the $2 tach strips from MTH will probably work just dandy.  Cheaper and much easier.

You can use Avery sticker paper and it works fine. It holds up better than the original. Use a black laser priner. Check your e-mail I sent you a file with a scan of the original tach tape.

Scott Smith

Scott, can you post the scan here as an attachment?

Here's the tach tape.

Scott Smith

what SS1 and SS2?

Thanks Scott, that's great.  I didn't have those images in the library.

Glad to be of help John.

what SS1 and SS2?

No Clue, you will have to look back at the EOB manual to find out.

Scott Smith

 

I was thinking a black marker

Included in your installation kit are 5 different striped flywheel tape strips. The
strips are marked “Sunset 1, Sunset 2, MTH, Williams and K-Line.

I believe the TAS Kit install involved fitting the tape around the flywheel before removing the sticky.  Best fit was a relatively uniform fit at the cut mark. That's why there were several different choices available on the printed sheet, (different flywheel diameters).  Two black marks together, or a large white space was not a great thing.   There was a lot of printed strips left in a kit, only one was used.