This video was a godsend for me. I took my Sony VCR apart to epoxy the loading motor coupler and fix the spring on the reverse break and could not figure out for the life of my why it wouldn't work. It turned out it wasn't in time! Thank you! I'm also going to remove all the factory grease that you said breaks the gears down and replace it with white lithium grease.

I just thought of something - What you need to prevent a unit from eating a tape that you are trying to see how it's operating is a dummy tape skeleton that can block the sensors and allow the functions operate as if it had a fully loaded cassette in there. This is what I used when I got into cleaning VCR's back in the day and it sure saved a lot of tape eating.

@12voltvids

Ай бұрын

Not really concerned about tape eating. I have lots of tapes headed to the bin.

Wow!! what a precision job, as I saw in the footage what I would of done is first tack it into place on the outer posts leaving the center post as a guide then using the nubs that came off as I did see those and use them to reinforce the top and melt them into place - but thats just me being as precise - great job there Dave!!!

As manufacturers made things cheaper to build, the quality is made cheaper. Sometimes it's less expensive to replace it than to repair it due to the way it was manufactured.

@12voltvids

5 ай бұрын

This was in the swan song days of vcrs.

Quick question. What is your recommendation on meter to check for bad capacitors that are in circuits?

@12voltvids

5 ай бұрын

ESR meter is the only one that will do it

What do you use to clean the heads and the mode switch?

@12voltvids

5 ай бұрын

I use nutrol contact cleaner or deoxit on the mode switch and the back of my fingernail on the head 😂 didn't you see that? Seriously though isoproponal alcohol on a piece of paper for video head and qtip for audio, erase abd guides.

@PlutoniusX

5 ай бұрын

@@12voltvids Absolutely. Hard to beat paper folded a few times soaked in isopropyl.

damn i wish you were closer i have a vcr/dvd recorder that i suspect mode switch problems

@12voltvids

5 ай бұрын

Then clean it. Not that difficult.

You have been an absolute savior. I am churning out repaired Betamax's to the world. thank you. I have a strange problem on a 'talking' SL2410 though -> the belt is too tight even without the tension-er. So loading the tape binds the motor and slows it down to a crawl. The belts from the HF series are a different tooth and much bigger so that's a no go. I think this is a stock belt its just simply too tight no matter how I slice it.. I will try to make a video and post it. Have you experienced this phenomena and is there something I am missing? strange indeed.

@12voltvids

5 ай бұрын

On time 7 o'clock pm, Wednesday the week after next, off time 8 o'clock pm, see flashing channel.

@warpedmetalhead

5 ай бұрын

Hah! Not sure this was intended for my 'tight belt' syndrome question. :) @@12voltvids

@12voltvids

5 ай бұрын

@@warpedmetalhead there is no way the belt should be tight unless it is the wrong belt, or front loader or loading motor is not in the correct position.

I came across a smart vcr with a digital mode switch and what made it smart is that if it detected that the vcr was about to eat the tape it would shut itself down and put the vcr into safe mode

@12voltvids

5 ай бұрын

They will all shut down and go into emergency stop if the tape reels stop turning. Even the very first ones. Some early beta had a mechanical sensor to detect tape slack. They will all eat. That's what vcrs do.

@12voltvids

5 ай бұрын

All mode switches are digital. Some mechanical and others optical. The optical are no more reliable as the led gets weak and then the read out is unreliable.

Good job saving another one from the landfill. Now go play catch with your cat.

@12voltvids

5 ай бұрын

Cat just wanted to be fed.

I have one of these i just use it as a test unit. Adequate but noticeably plasticky.

@12voltvids

5 ай бұрын

They were all plastic on the last generation.

>Duraleak can comfirm

@12voltvids

5 ай бұрын

They ate all bad now.

Hey a friend of mine said he had an issue with his camera and flew it out to you to fix. It would mean a lot if I could do the same, I’m more than willing to pay.

@eliasxvargas

5 ай бұрын

It’s just jammed and it gives me a C:32:21 error and it’s the Sony CCD-TRV108 NTSC

@12voltvids

5 ай бұрын

No problem. I work on plenty of shipped in devices. Furthest device came all the way from isreal.

@eliasxvargas

5 ай бұрын

@@12voltvids how would I go about sending it you/acquiring shipping info to you

@12voltvids

5 ай бұрын

@@eliasxvargas my contact info is in the about tab on the main page. Have to check with browser as it doesn't show on phones.

So cheaply made, I'd be scared to sneeze looking at it

@michaelturner4457

5 ай бұрын

It's not as cheap as the last Funais.

@12voltvids

5 ай бұрын

They all were cheap by this point

@CanizaM

5 ай бұрын

This is the S mechanism, last one Sony designed (and its minor revision SR) before they started using Samsung TS-10. But it already looks very similar to the last Funai mech, probably because all the companies figured out that design was the cheapest and converged towards it.

I don't want to be rude, but that nasty CRT Whine is extremely loud and has a super high pitch (15'800 Hz) which hurts after a couple of minutes in my ears... Maybe you could turn off your CRTs in your next Videos, because i really enjoy watching your videos but i don't want to have that screeching noise stuck in my ears for the rest of the day...

@12voltvids

5 ай бұрын

To bad so sad. I was expecting a delivery and the Amazon guy just leaves it out front and doesn't ring the bell so I had the monitor on. Poor you you would have gone bat shit crazy in the CRT era. Try living with tinninus and you will have that sound in your head 24/7 for life, just saying.

@simtitan1

5 ай бұрын

I didn't even hear it. You must have sensitive ears.

@CanizaM

5 ай бұрын

If you know the frequency you can EQ it down yourself.

@12voltvids

5 ай бұрын

@@CanizaM That doesn't work. I have tried and it makes the sound bad for the entire video. There is a phase shift between the 2 channels, likely as a result of how the audio is processed. I have tried notching and it doesn't do anything. The room is live, so I get reflections from the walls that arrive at the microphone at different phases. If it was a pure sign wave then no problem but it's not and I am not about to go to exorbitant processing to try to remove something that 99% of viewers never hear.