Solution: Rotating part of a tape recorder - NYT Crossword

It struck me, while figuring this clue out, how obsolete the cassette recorder is. Could tapes ever have the cachet of vinyl, unless you have an affection for pops and hisses? I’m old enough to remember people who hoarded audiotapes of Grateful Dead shows (and usually asked me to help them move, with giant stacks of these plastic boxes reverently mummified in duct tape). Anyhow, I’d seen the word CAPSTAN before, as a nautical term, which is how it’d previously been clued. It’s a leveraged reel, basically, used on a ship for raising anchor, or on a cassette deck for hitching along your little magnetic strip so you can rock it with a boombox.