Tune in next week when Adrian repairs a Husqvarna sewing machine 😊

@darkknite2k11

7 күн бұрын

@@sarahgoo5541 would be continuity gold 🪙

@jpnc2319

6 күн бұрын

This guy can repair almost anything

@adriansdigitalbasement2

6 күн бұрын

Maybe it uses a floppy drive??!

@jpnc2319

6 күн бұрын

@@adriansdigitalbasement2 let's see if can run Doom

@tigheklory

6 күн бұрын

@@adriansdigitalbasement2 My wife's Brother embroidery sewing machine uses CF cards.

I hope you feel better Adrian. Rest and recover. Don't push yourself too hard. All the best

Yes Goldstar is LG. LG actually stands for Lucky Goldstar the name came from the merger of the Lucky chemical company and Goldstar electronics. As a side note I think either late ‘90’s or early 2000’s their marketing department developed the tagline Life’s Good.

@lasskinn474

7 күн бұрын

I wish they would bring back the lucky goldstar branding instead of pseudo branding as if they were an european traditional brand. south korea isn't bad for quality(now anyway), should embrace that. the lg branding makes it just look like it's random stuff from china like all the trad. brands are. i still think fondly of a daewoo 32" crt I used to have 20 years ago. did everything, pal, ntsc and both in 50 and 60 and 50/60 rgb as well. was a great pairing to an og xbox.

@MrJeroendemuzikant

7 күн бұрын

Man I was going to say that thing about Goldstar becoming LG. And being all clever about it. 😎🤣 I never heard about that being ‘Lucky Goldstar’. Only about it being ‘Life’s Good’, which I thought was pretty lame as branding. But what do I know. 😁

@timstuart7112

7 күн бұрын

@@MrJeroendemuzikant I have been in retail since the mid 80’s and have seen a lot over my lifetime. During the late 80’s to mid 90’s Korean brands were viewed as “cheap” and poor quality. Goldstar had that same reputation. LG was fully aware of that view at least here in the US. Kudos to them for recognizing it and relaunching their brand as LG. I only know of that back story because the retailer that I worked for at the time had training reps in that told the story when the LG brand launched with them. I think I remember them saying the merger of the two companies actually happened in the 50’s but since this was over 20 years ago maybe even 25 that I heard the story I am a little hazy on that.

@nickwallette6201

7 күн бұрын

Some people say "I would rather be lucky than good", but I don't know if that does or should pertain to chemical companies.

@Birdman_in_CLE

7 күн бұрын

They also bought the Zenith brand out of Chicago.

This VHS was installed in Buses. All was designed to be easy to use It. Vibrations, positions, etc ..

@YoureUsingWordsIncorrectly

6 күн бұрын

I remember being on a Coach when they would get Cinema Releases for Trips, Best memory trip Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

@mamayl8592

6 күн бұрын

I suspected it was used in a mobile environment.

@AttilaSVK

6 күн бұрын

Oh yes, I recall going from Slovakia to Greece by bus in 1999, via Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria (that's the longer way) because of the war in former Yugoslavia. We were sitting near the back of the bus, maybe about two thirds in, and the TV was at the front. Well, I think nobody could really see it, maybe the people in first or second rows of seats :D

@jeffbraxton2893

3 күн бұрын

Ergo the 12-volts

@dustinsmous5413

Күн бұрын

This model was quite common in RVs in the 90s and 2000svas well.

Sorry to hear about the stomach thing. Wishing you a fast recovery.

I'd recommend probiotic yoghurt. That seems to help my stomach get back into shape with the right enzymes.

@howaboutsomesoyfood

7 күн бұрын

or probiotics in general.

@moonrock41

7 күн бұрын

That's a really good idea. I eat yogurt often and also take a probiotic pill every day.

I saw the front of this VCR In the thumbnail and freaked out. My grand parents had this VCR in their Van, along with a tiny TV. The nostalgia is real. As 90s kids we watched many many movies on that thing.

I used to use silicone grease back when I was a technician. It was what most manufacturers recommended. Lithium is OK, though.

@PuffyRainbowCloud

5 күн бұрын

Good to hear my DIY instincts were right!

The heads on most 2-head VCRs are optimized for EP, so you'll get (almost) clean pause and fast-forward/reverse search in EP, but noise bars in SP or LP.

@Shadowfoxxy30

7 күн бұрын

if you knew anything about VCR's you'd know it's bad to pause your tapes it damages them.

@zachbeckner

7 күн бұрын

@@Shadowfoxxy30 WTF? talk about an attitude.

@Vaionko

6 күн бұрын

​@@Shadowfoxxy30 You're telling vwestlife he doesn't know anything about VCRs? Lol.

@Snohup

6 күн бұрын

Do 6-head VCR have (almost) clean pause and FF/RW in EP, SP and LP?

@adriansdigitalbasement2

6 күн бұрын

Heh after making the video, I played an EP tape and yes this was instantly evident! I surely knew this at some point but then forgot it.

Those were also common with truck drivers because of how tight sleeper cabs are.

The smooth connector on the rf unit is the standard for Sweden, we almost never use threaded connectors for antenna/rf signals. In the 80´s and 90´s we had rental video players they called a movie box that was mounted in a vinyl/plastic carrying case, even they would have the smooth rf connector. Yours was probably sold on many markets so they simplified the design to save on parts.

@sasiuru

4 күн бұрын

I remember these player only VHS things from video rental companies too here in Finland. Buying VCR late 80's was expensive thing to do, so that's why there was a rental players, just rent a video and player.

My family bought a full size van (sometimes called conversion vans?) in the mid to late 90's and it had one of these inside. I remember watching the Bruce Lee film several times on the color TV in there. It sat inside this wooden cabinet in between the two front seats, built into the center console. I remember the picture being pretty decent and this felt like the height of technology, watching movies in your VAN! Wow!

@bauertime

6 күн бұрын

My dads handicap 1993 Ford van had the same set up.

@volvo09

6 күн бұрын

I love conversion vans!

@Alcarods

6 күн бұрын

Yup! These were very popular in conversion vans also!

Glad you’re on the mend, Adrian! My parents had a high-quality late-90’s Sony VCR, and that’s how I remember the pause looking! Oregonian greetings from Canby!

These look like the little machines you could hire from video shops in the uk if you didn’t own a player of your own. They would be fitted in a large carry box. This version seems to be for use in a mobile situation, we used them in coaches.

technically speaking it's not a VCR but rather a VCP since it can't record

@Plarndude

6 күн бұрын

Yah! Someone else is bothered by that too!

@helgew9008

6 күн бұрын

The silkscreen on the bottom circuit board is even marked "VCP". Back in the day, we called them a movie box.

@TonyLambregts

4 күн бұрын

Technically correct: the best form of correct 😅

We had a similar one that my brother grabbed out of the trash pile at his university when the dorms were being cleaned out at end of term in about 1996. It was originally in a rental case from the local Video store before we shucked it out. The power brick was integrated into the case, but could be removed.

Strictly speaking it was called a VCP. I bought one to edit tapes when I recorded Doctor Who off WCNY in the late eighties and early nineties knowing that PBS might not repeat the same Doctors over again. And at the time I did not have the income for 2 VCRs. VCPs were cheaper. And the second RF port was because most people had CRTs without RCA inputs on them. It was a bypass so we would not have to unplug our cable TV every time we wanted to just watch TV.

At the 34:01 minute mark I totally thought Adrian somehow reached into the video and poked the sewing machine.

Those chamois cleaning sticks were the best thing to use. You can actually clean them with the same fluid you use the clean the heads (regular old IPA works fine, at least that's what we used to use back in the day). Those sticks really only wear out if the chamois comes off the stick, or the surface of the chamois is damaged. They are actually very robust little items. And they are the absolute best for cleaning heads in a VCR (or audio tape deck for that matter.)

Totally having flashbacks. Back in the day when my Dad ran a video rental store they had the straight A/C versions for rental use. Came in a big ole blow molded case.

@volvo09

6 күн бұрын

I remember the big blow mold rental cases!

This VCP is designed to be put in the driver seat pouch so the kids can watch Aladdin in the back seats of the Grand Caravan.

Lithium grease is petroleum based and is not good for plastic. Polyurea grease is the slightly amber colored grease you always see in plastic gears from the factory.

Having a VCR paired to a colour (trinitron) TV in your RV/boat was a super luxury. We had a b&w TV that needed hitting to make it work and I thought that was fancy 😅

@nickwallette6201

7 күн бұрын

Exactly. This immediately brought me back to seeing the pimped family vans and RVs at dealerships in the 90s. You had to be doing _alright_ to be cruising around in a van with a TV and VHS deck.

I appreciate you taking the time to share your more personal things like being sick and your diabetic things. It helps ground us in reality, that, although KZreadrs may be famous to us, they are also just regular people like us too. I recently got diagnosed type 2 diabetic, and it’s nice knowing I’m not the only one, and since I watched your videos for so long, I kinda knew what to eat and drink to help manage my sugar. Gotta get some of that tang, though! Been wanting to try that🎉

My parents had a video store back in the late 70s thru the early 90s . These vcr were designed as a rental unit with a 120 volt power supply

@grinderkenny

7 күн бұрын

I'm not sure with this unit but a few systems used petroleum jelly as a lubricant on the gears. Also I remember fixing these as a kid at the store and one came in with a peanut butter sandwich inside of it.

My family had what was probably one of these _exact_ models when I was younger, specifically for use on our boat! It was a great unit in that application, both for size and the ability to power it off 12V. It didn't give us any grief as far as I recall, regardless of the orientation.

Feel better soon

i vaguely remember the old style camcorders with vcr’s. my dad had a betamax when i was born and dropped it down the stairs at a mall in New Hampshire and it smashed in a million pieces. the vhs one we had was a panasonic i want to say and we had that one for years as well. till a tape got stuck in it and my dad took it apart to get the tape out and never put it back together.

This brought back memories, I bought a VHS player in the late 80's and it was the older brother to this the VCP-4100M. It sat under a 14" Philips portable TV in my room as a teenager.

What a cute VCP and in such good condition :) I actually still had a fancy hi-fi stereo Sony VCR of that vintage that I'd had from new until we bought this house 7yrs ago (smaller house - the VCR and its tapes had to go, but I kept my Amigas, lol) As many others already pointed out, it was quite common to find those portable VCPs on coach tour buses (If I remember correctly, even Greyhound, in these parts!). When you mentioned early attempts at recording video to VHS with portable players, that brought back memories of my dad lugging around such units and an equally sizeable video camera on a few family holidays 😂 - Thanks for that fun little "break" from regular, often "meaty" content - hope your current ailment goes away quick smart 👍

I remember a friend had a conversion van with a 9" color TV and a VCR just like that in it. They also had a SNES wired into the system. Pretty effective way to keep the early 90s kids occupied on long car trips.

It's kind of a miracle videotape works at all, really. That they eventually got them so cheap and reliable is more miracles on top of miracles.

Oh bless Adrian, sorry you weren’t feeling100% but well done on another entertaining video. Really like your videos and have learnt SO much since subbing to your channel.

I can't help thinking about the moment in Clint's video where a decision was made to visit Whataburger....

I was in Houston TX last week myself. Caught what feels a lot like a covid variant. Wiped me out for days. Could not/did not want to eat, just wanted to sleep. Taste and sense of smell was gone. Body aches, fever, congestion/cough, you name it. Have had a couple of different versions, and this felt just like it. Finally ate for the first time today (5 1/2 days cans food), and it was good! But yeah, the old stomach was NOT happy with food in it after being empty for so long. And it was chili mac, because i woke up this Wednesday dreaming about chili mac (a favorite of mine). So i had to make homemade chili mac, and it tasted amazing. And while my tummy was a bit upset, everything stayed down. So i'm calling that a win!

Hi Adrian) Get well and don't get sick. Thank you so much for the video. I very rarely write comments, even though I have been a subscriber to your channel for a long time) As soon as your videos come out on KZread, I always immediately like them, because I know in advance that there will be something interesting) As for the tape recorder, I really have never seen a VCR that runs on a power supply. And Goldstar is really LG. I have a Goldsar TV and audio cassettes.

Oh no I’m sorry that you weren’t well. Glad you’re feeling better. Well done for keep working away when your not feeling 100 percent

Who knew Husqvarna made sewing machines? I always learn something watching Adrian

@jonord

8 күн бұрын

Husqvarna is one of the oldest companies in Sweden. THey've also made kitchenware and rifles. My parents home had all Husqvarna kitchenware. The sauna was Husqvarna.

@adriansdigitalbasement2

8 күн бұрын

I know basically nothing about sewing machines but this one sure seems extra fancy! (But then again, what do I know, maybe it's super bare bones?)

@tim1724

8 күн бұрын

I have a Husqvarna Viking sewing machine. My grandma bought it back in the 80s specifically because it was made in Sweden. (She was Swedish.)

@pederb82

7 күн бұрын

They made washing machines etc too. :)

@bentboybbz

7 күн бұрын

They make lawn equipment, lawn mowers weed eaters chainsaw, they make dirt bikes,... It's so strange to me that someone that makes dirt bikes makes sewing machines lol

That VCR (VCP technically?) would have been common on tour buses as well. I have memories of watching movies on bus rides during band trips back in the 90s, and they had VCRs like this, and CRT monitors hanging from the ceiling.

@gentuxable

7 күн бұрын

It's a Videocasette Reader :D

@Really........

6 күн бұрын

@@gentuxable There are no record functions on this unit so it's Video Cassette Player.

I had a few of these exact units in my limousine collection

The jack on the modulator is there for the tuner if it was so equipped with on it allowed the antenna signal to be passed to a built in tuner-they made them in that form factor for years and the modulator works just fine as a stand alone modulator without a tuner plugged into it-why would a manufacturer make multiple devices like a modulator for a vcr with a tuner and one for a vcr without a built in tuner-just use the one-saves on having to manufacture different parts to obtain the same goal

I actually have a recorded VHS tape that somehow has the recording at the very start after the leader that I have not been able to properly capture due to all the VCRs I have having a OSD that shows up when I try to rewind and play that part of the tape so the fact this VHS Player does not have any OSD is great for my need of wanting to preserve that tape's entire contents. Also this helped me realize I really need to pull my main VCR apart and grease it up and do a better cleaning job on it to preserve it's proper operation.

@eDoc2020

3 күн бұрын

Many VCRs have different modes for the OSD such as always counter always visible. One of these options should suppress the OSD completely.

I remember these on my 24 hours long bus holiday trip to Croatia. Same TV and VCR style. Was watching Desperados. Core memories.

I think a very common place to find these was aircraft and long distance buses, which usually had a series of TVs along the aisle for in-flight/drive movies.

Those chamois tips are somewhat popular for cleaning game cartridges since they fit basically exactly between the plastic shell and the card connector without disassembling the cart and don't leave fuzz behind like cotton buds often do. I usually see them in kits with other "game cart cleaning supplies" so I didn't know they had a specific name besides "the wide and flat swab"

I’ve honestly never heard/seen the term “trick play” before.

Haven't seen a VCP in awhile. Thanks for the video Adrian!

Get yourself well Adrian thank you for releasing this video. Cheers

Hope you recover soon, Adrian. Earlier single-speed VHS machines did provide quite decent still-frame and trick-play results. The issue with the 2-head SP/LP/EP machines is the head wafers are thinner to accommodate the narrower tracks needed for the long-play modes. You will likely find LP/EP recordings give a better image in trick-play modes on this machine.

be careful with windex with ammonia, often times the ammonia can eat plastics slowly over time. I personally use ammonia-free windex when it comes to electronics, not only is it safer for the environment, it's safer around tech. I just use store brand but you can get name brand too.

Feel better soon Adrian, and thank you for taking the time to still keep us up to date! Does Ginger help? I am a seasonal sufferer of a bug that gives me horrible nausea, Ginger is the only thing that seems to work !

Same VCR was in our old van. Had that and a built in TV for the back seat passengers.

Very cool! Growing up, there were a few times when we were living in a travel trailer. At the time, we had a Sanyo TV/VCR combo unit that had the dual voltage input like that VCR. Pretty neat! I pray you feel better really soon!

I remember back in the 90s my uncle had a VHS camcorder. It was pretty big, it went on your shoulder, had a very small viewfinder that stuck out either left or right, had a boom microphone (horrible quality) on the top, an attachable light that slid on.. it had an angled handle with some function buttons on it. It didn't have an addition playback screen on it, had to use the viewfinder, but it was ok.. that thing recorded a LOT of video back in the day.. SO many tapes.. they're all junk now I'm sure.. but what memories

Most VCRs should be pretty agnostic about their physical orientation.

Time for Japanese 80s fancy digital toilet review done in digital basement.

That Jack on the modulator-module is typically the aerial output that would be connected to the tuner module on VCRs that can record. I guess they just used the same modulator for this player.

Get well soon Adrian, I was worried! I've really been enjoying the Plexus videos (reminds me of some of the DEC gear I used when I first started working full-time).

Hope you feel better soon!

Fun video. I hope you’re feeling better soon.

OMG Sue Hausmann!! My wife would watch her sewing show back in the 90s!!

Probiotics is a great help to get my stomach back to normal again, also during / after treatment with antibiotics.

Get well, soon!

A friend had a conversion van with one of these in it.

get well soon, and enjoy the old electronics

Thats way better than the super chunky Ferguson Videostar we had back in the day.

My Chevy Express 1500 came with a 12v CRT TV and an Audio Vox 12v VCR. I still have both even though I took them out of my Van. The power to the VCR is a Molex connector.

Thank you! Feel better!

Great video, I have about 10,000 VHS movies, so was really interested in this one 🙂

I hope you get well soon. Nice little vhs player, brings memories from rental device my parents used to rent couple of times in the 80's, before they bought our own VCR. It was called Esselte Home Video System, or something similar to that, I believe it was just a player to show the rented vhs movies, small and fairly easily portable., like this newer player. I seem to recall the 80's Esselte had some teal coloured buttons too. I still have Philips VHS VCR from 2003, still in working condition and sometimes I watch the tapes I used to record with it, mostly TV-shows and some movies. It had some minor issues couple of years ago, but they seem to have disappeared, at least for now, without doing anything to it.

Welcome back bro. Get well soon 🌻

I understand all too well on 'side effect' illnesses... for me, any cold, flu, etc. makes my asthma flare up and it takes weeks / months to settle down. Here's hoping you get past it quickly!

My grandparents owned a late nineties Dodge conversion van that had one of these tucked away in a cabinet.

My first wife was type 1 diabetic and watching what it did to her was horrific in the end so I definitely understand the need for some down time to recover. Your health trumps KZread videos.

As a former bench tech for rotary head machines of all sorts, the mode switch was by far the most common repair. I had dozens of different ones in stock, all functioned similarity. Slip ring and pinch rollers also were common.

Adrian, sorry to hear you weren't feeling well. I hope you get better. I recommend some peppermint tea or even some with ginger in it. They seem to help with nausea and upset stomach for me. Keep up the great work and rest up.

Some of those older VCRs just keep plugging along, with a little maintenance, every so often. While I was attending college in the mid-1990's, I remember our Electronics Department putting on a VCR Cleaning Clinic, to teach students the ins & outs, of basic repairs & troubleshooting. Looking back, I kind of wish I would've participated. I've got a few VCRs, that I'd like to get working again, so I can make a digital copy of family videos.

@moonrock41

7 күн бұрын

I'd guess there are quite a lot of VCRs still around, probably not getting used, but stored away in closets, etc. I have at least three of them, only one of which I bought.

39:02 You take that back! I love my VHS tapes! We often have 80's film nights and use a 1982 Fergusson Videostar. Joking aside, I loved this video and found it very useful from a maintenance point of view, thank you Adrian :) Also - drink some flat lemonade and eat some plain crisps(chips) always settles my stomach.

A laserVision demo, on a VHS, oh dear!!!

I have a nice Sony CRT/VHS combo and I love to watch some of my old VHS tapes every so often for the nostalgia. Plus, I just think they're neat! it's such a cool technology that a lot of people took for granted back in the 90s

40:14 It depends. VHS may be obsolete now, but I've seen people still use them specifically for Hi-Fi audio. As someone who used to have a good quality Panasonic VCR, the Hi-Fi audio is really good.

hope you get well soon !

Hello Adrian, hope you're feeling better. A small tip: Chamois is pronounced as sha-moaa... it's a French word describing basically skin of the goat antelope (Chamois) that lives in the Pyrenees mountains on the border between France and Spain. Fun fact: professional bicycle athletes wear chamois inlays in their pants to absorb excess sweat... I'm told it makes sitting on the sadle for a long while "a lot more comfortable" :D However, don't take my word for it, you should try it out yourself to experience whether that is true or not LOL

@dennisp.2147

3 күн бұрын

In America (and parts of Anglophone Canada) We pronounce it "shammy". Primarily to make the Frogs twitch and writhe.

This would be the sort of thing they would also use on coaches (hence the looped playback) to entertain people on a long journey, or to just bombard them with promo ads to drive them insane, because there's nothing like blasting ads to a captive audience... :P

Ugh, I know exactly that post illness stomach "sensation". Here's hoping for a shorter rather than longer duration!

Adrian, I figured you're at a VCF. get well soon!

I find watching a movie on VHS to be very nostalgic. My LG TV does a decent job of upscaling and my receiver processes the hifi audio just fine. It's definitely an experience

Sounds like my crazy stomach thing i have been fighting with since i was young. Just stops processing food, only thing that helps most the time is water and riding my bike miles hard and fast or working in the yard and getting that metabolize working again. Hope you get well soon.

My grandfather had a VCR like that in his astro van. If I recall correctly, it was mounted to the back of the passenger front seat.

Sewing video was quite interesting, you should share it to some archives. :)

Oh yes, VHS goodness! Still play VHS tapes at home (but of course I would :D ) and recorded some newer stuff onto them via an HDMI-AV adapter. It's worth it for the cozyness of watching tapes on a CRT again these days alone.

Get well soon Adrian! :C

When you looked at the back of your VCR I wondered where your SCART sockets were, I looked it up and discovered that America never had SCART, how can you live without SCART? I still use SCART to connect my digital TV box to the flat screen TV. I've even converted my Atari STE to SCART. Vote for SCART!

@volvo09

6 күн бұрын

Yeah we never got it. When I learned about the socket I said damn, we really missed out!

@stamasd8500

6 күн бұрын

I'm an European living in the US; I grew up with SCART and frankly I don't miss it. I always found it cumbersome and clunky.

Adrian, I’m exactly the same with my sugars during bouts of stomach issues. I tend to force myself to eat even when I’m feeling sick and don’t take any insulin until my sugar goes up. Actually if I’m having diarrhea my sugar stays low but the otherwise I’m always backed up and have to take quite a lot of insulin. I think it’s IBS. Anyway get well soon. I love your content.

I think lithium grease can degrade plastics. Better use silicone grease when there's plastic involved.

Outside of commercial units (like cop cars, etc) I rarely ever saw a 12v DC unit that had record. They were almost always VCPs not VCRs. I think it was cost savings, and also MAYBE harder to stabilize recording vs playback, but that last bit is just an absolute random guess.

I remember going on school camps in the late 80s/early 90s and the coach bus had a builtin TV and VCR

I had a 12v/120v VCR that recorded too, back in the 90s. Bought with an Atari 2600 for the kids while traveling in our van, along with a Timex Sinclair 1000. Kids loved them also for camping...

21:00 You're doing it wrong, it should be counterclockwise not clockwise, just as 12voltvids says it "counterclockwise which is the direction it would normally turn"

A lot of these were installed vertically in an armrest. I remember renting conversion vans for vacations in the 90s and they VCR was always hidden away while the TV was front and center there in the back of the console or on the ceiling if it was a high roof van.