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Originally Posted by HG MICKE
Looking back in my old notes, if the idler tyre has become rigid and hard no amount of cleaning or solvents will reactivate it. A work around that we used was a flat cassette drive belt of slightly smaller diameter fixed to the tyre surface with rubber cement (not super glue as it made it too rigid ).
Colin
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Yes I've had success with the same approach. Flat belts still come in various lengths, widths and thicknesses. The thicker the section the more the compliance. Compared to heatshrink the belt rubber seems closer to the performance of the usual original rubber on the idler.