Just here to echo many others: I bought a 585 from a thrift store last week and upon receiving my replacement blue gear I got it working today thanks to these videos 👍
Got a 585 from the thrift store working today thanks to your videos. The blue gear was broken and the P6 lever was completely seized. Came out of this experience feeling great and knowing so much more, I really appreciate you doing these videos.
What a great video!!! I repaired my Sony SLV-686HF which has identical mechanisms you've described. It had the two classic problems you mentioned. I had to replace the broken blue gear and clean the p6 guide lever because of dried lubricant. I could never get the proper alignment of the gears until seeing this video. Your excellent detailed explanation of the gear alignment saved my bacon otherwise I would have probably just junked the thing. PS I just love your messy work bench where you can find the proper tool in no time. Just like me. After the wife re-organizes my bench because of the mess I have difficulty finding anything!!! LOL Keep up the great work.
Great video! Fixing a sony 595hf blue gear replacement job now and the retaining clip wasn't held in, the screw was missing. There was a marker written on the top lid showing the roller was replaced in 1999. Got a Samsung VCR/DVD combo with it clicking during rewinding so I'll check the pendulum cog. Thanks.
I really love all your video"s. The vcr ones bring back good memories. I started in the 80's when they came out. Went to Panasonic a week on the PV-1270 then to Sony for a week on the sl-5800. Boy was I confused after those 2 weeks. But have still worked on them. I would like to see you overhaul and realigh what I thought was the most mechanical nightmare of all vcr chassis. The G chassis. It was in panasonic,quasar, rca, and lots of others. Thanks and keep them coming. Jimmy USA (alabama)
I believe I have done a G chassis. I forget all the chassis numbers but wasn't the G as in garbage chassis the one with only 2 motors, drum and capstan, and a clutch was used to load / unload the tape AND operate the front loader? Or am I thinking of the "K" chassis. Been so long.
A Sony SLV575 was my first VCR from 1991. Great machine! I had to replace the brake pads when the tape started spooling out inside the machine when stopping in the middle of a fast forward. I don't recall what happened to the machine or why I retired it.
This is why I showed it. The missing lamp you really don't see unless you are looking for it. Under normal viewing it is completely invisible. You can see it on color bars, or a full color or white screen. By contrast, if that single lamp was replaced, and was putting out double the brightness of the rest of the lamp you would really see it. I have no idea how many % all the lamps are down. All fluorescent bulbs gradually loose lumans over the life of the lamp. I know for sure we can certainly spot them at work when they change a single lamp in a continuous row of 12 4' lamps. The new ones stick out like a sore thumb.
I frequently fall into that category, but its only be cause I don't know how give complements. Just remember" Illegitimi non carborundum" it is Latin meaning "Don't let the bastards grind you down".
I have a total of 3 VCR's that have a problem. I'm working on saving VHS tapes that I've recorded over many years to a digital format and I have only one working VCR. I'm hoping to get at least 2 of these repaired. The VCR's I have is a Sony SLV-N700, a Sony VCR/DVD combo SLV-D360P and I purchased a used JVC HR-XVC11 (which is a VCR/DVD combo) from Goodwill to have a second working VCR (it was the only one they had). The Sony SLV-N700 tries to load a VHS tape, and before it's completely loaded, you can hear (and see with the cover off) the rewind take up wheel spinning. Before the tape fully loads it ejects. Sometimes the tape does fully load, but the tape indicator on the front display flashes. The Sony SLV-D360P VCR/DVD combo, a couple tapes broke while winding a tape. Now when trying to load a tape, it won't load. The only way it'll load is to spin the loading motor to get the tape to load ... however even though it loads the spindles don't move and it sometimes ejects the tape ... however when it ejects, the tape isn't taken up. The JVC HR-XVC11 VCR/DVD combo (the one bought from Goodwill) started to work fine, but the audio cut out and now there is no audio. Any ideas and can these be repaired for a reasonable price??
We used to have this same exact Sony VCR back around 1991 or so, but ours later broke like around 2007, and it's a really darn shame, since I liked that VCR. We also lost the remote over time (since disabling the on-screen counter display was so annoying to do since it required the matching Sony remote). Ironically, I also recall that the system date and time settings on this Sony VCR model could only go from January 1, 1991, all the way up to December 31, 2006 for some reason (it can't go to any further system dates after the year 2006).
Great training vids...Tx for sharing...I was able to fix mine too, tx to your hints...Incredible the complexity of the mechanisms, though...Mine was an easy fix (lubricating the famous lever that brings tape to pinch roller, as it was sticking), but I can imagine if I had to take apart the clutch assembly, and align all the gears, I'd go crazy :-)
The tv back light trick was to save money, and get a tv working for free like i do with my led bulbs. When running a home and the tv blows over xmas your trick would work fast. Tank you.
In case you haven't figured it out, I try to get things going for the lowest possible cost. Anyone can go in and change all the LEDs. Don't need much skill there, just like anyone can swap a board. To actually find the specific part that is bad is a different story.
its not just home movies that people want to save there are movies and unique documentaries that still have not been released on dvd or blu ray yet that people want to preserve and keep.
95 percent of my VHS tapes are prercoded movies which I got for $.20 - $3 and most of them were given to me. I have 9 VCRs a magnovox,2 sharps,1987 Emerson, Hitachi fx6500, Sylvania, Fuji, Sony DVD/VCR, and a off brand DVD/VCR. I will copy all my VHS to my PC but I find it fun to use my VCRs
Bought a 585 knowing it just ejected the tape. I opened and the guide arms were in the up position and seemed to be stuck. I followed the breakdown and the smaller gear on the cam gear has a stripped part. Also, the long sawtooth gear wouldn't move. Is this worth repairing? Oh, one of the plastic nubs that you line up with the cam gear with has broken off. But the blue gear seems to be good!
I was able to fix my SLV-R5UC following this tutorial. The blue gear was broken and brake need some adjusting. However, the left channel isn't working well. The audio is very low. I tried different tapes,cables,and headphone jack. I'm not sure if problem existed before or if I am have my have done something incorrect while repairing the gear. I'm not sure where or begin to troubleshoot this issue since I can't find the service manual. Anyone got any advice?
I had to order that blue gear and when I went to put the white gear back in, I got it in place but then the center pin that it fits on - pushed down where I couldn't get the snap on. So I took it off and tried again and it now keeps pushing in. When I did get the gear on and the snap on the pin - I started to put the large white gear on and as I rotated the gears it pulled that pin up making the gear vulnerable to being stripped. Do I need to glue that pin now? It has a perfect slip hole but nothing to hold it in place
I'm having a problem with my play, fast forward and reverse function. It's definetly something with the pedulum/idler gear. I opened up the vcr to replace the blue gear and it worked for a while. Then this problem came up the next day. Please help!! I have a 595hf model.
You are fantastic ! I have same one When it playes there is some noise in colore and some fliker in picture And Image disconnects and reconnects for about a second If possible, I would like to know your opinion about the cause and area of failure. Thank you
Mine is like new but I had it boxed up for years and now no picture. The tapes play great, rewind, fast forward but I'm only getting audio and no video. Wish you lived in Houston....Lol! Please let me know if you know some place I can get mine looked at and repaired. Thank you, and hope you can help.
i had a SLV 575UC i had to replace a white gear in it under the p6 guide (i did not know it was called that) but then it still had a problem with it playing tapes in LP or SLP. i read online that is was a problem with the capstan bearing. but i did not want to put anymore money into it so i sold it
I have this exact player. Runs great, just a weird thing that’s bothering me that I’d like fixed.. the front door for the tape is closed normally, and moves freely. But when a tape is inserted, the door stay open slightly and won’t fully close.. any ideas?
Great video Dave .....thank you ! I replaced my blue gear on my Sony SLV-595hf . You can still order the gear but for how much longer ....lol that sticker on the VCR looks like a Value Village sticker :) anyways take care !
sorry to be so off topic but does any of you know of a trick to get back into an Instagram account? I was stupid forgot my password. I would love any assistance you can give me.
@Avi Donovan i really appreciate your reply. I got to the site on google and im in the hacking process atm. Seems to take quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
Smashing, it's doing a perfect job again :-). The good designs make the job really nice to do, the bad ones make you wish you had not started lol. Great you cleaned the mode switch, they can be a bloody nuisance, i can't count how many times ive cleaned them and the machine behaves itself again. Sometimes the act of taking something apart fixes the problem, very bloody annoying as you dont get to know what the real fault was :-(. It's a shame that vcr's have been deemed dead, very handy time shifters.
Well we did see the symptom, no take up of the tape on the supply side in reverse / rewind. So the problem was obviously mechanical. Sticky lubricant on the pendulum arm. A drop of oil solves that problem.
Yes i know you fixed it with lubing, i was just saying ive had annoying devices that after dissasembly/reassembly the dam thing works lol. Computers have done this to me too. I like a real fault that i actually find a bad part, otherwise i didnt really do anything :-).
Yes those ones can be annoying. Usually a bad connection on a plug, or ground, and just disassembly corrects the fault. In this case though we clearly saw the problem, so it was straight forward.
I have a problem with a vcr that the it will not let me insert the tape, I think it is something to do with the loading gears. Do you know what is wrong? I have a picture of the gear mechanism if you want to look at it. I think the gears are out of ailment.
So when installing the c-clip onto the top white gear on my 595 Sony vcr there isnt enough 'nipple' /metal to grab onto. The metal triangle sheet has a raised area so I cannot install it. HELP
alsome man I got Sony slv 790hf its was working fine till today i put tape in and when I forward or back ward its working but it will stop and won't move the I turn it off wail lil bit then it will work again what could it be it says 3ll code or something?
I am facing a problem with the sony vcr SLV-ED818SG .. It was working that is completely correct, but the signal was interrupted by the TV suddenly, so that the blue screen does not appear, nor any sound or image at all, and it seems that it is not connected to the TV. Can you help me find a solution?
Hallo, I have a problem with a Sony SLV-757 VCR. Assuming that I have cleaned all the mechanisms that needed to be lubricated (following your videos): blue gear replaced, switch rotator and pich roller lever lubricated, forward and reverse mechanism clutch cleaned, heads cleaned. I still have a problem to solve, ie when I insert a cassette where the tape is at the beginning, the Sony VCR loads the tape onto the head drum and immediately ejects it. Only if I slide all the transparent tail by hand, and then feed the cassette it into the VCR, will it accept it and can I play it. I state that all the various functions work: forward, backward, normal and fast reverse speed. When I rewind at fast speed, the tape that has reached the end is automatically ejected, while at normal speed the problem does not arise. What can it be?
Dave, recently I aquired a few gems at GW. A LiteOn DVD recorder deck w/remote for 7$ from VOA. A Sansui A/V77 Processor for 6$ from GW. This has the ten pin video csmera jack. And from ebay, I got the Videonics MX1 for 50$ that needs a wall wart. Somewhere around here, I have an old saticon video camera, either it was a JVC or maybe Magnavox that I found at a junk store, w/o power supply. The camera had a ten pin plug. Q, are ten pin video camera jacks pretty much standard pinout? I think Sony cams were the exception if I recall right, but I'd like to try the old camera on this Sansui. I plan to hook these units to a VCR this weekend, and make a demo vid if they all work. But um hesitant to connect the camera to the Sansui. My very first video camera outfit was a Sharp Saticon camera into a Hitachi portable VCR, that had the same ten pin jack. That old camera may be stashed in the attic with the squirrels. Don
All the 10 pin connectors for home video cameras were the same. Sony used a 14 pin connector for their SL2000 and 2001 recorder, but the Beta 1 SLO340 used the 10 pin. Saticon was only found on Hitachi made cameras. Panasonic and JVC used Matsushita tubes, which would have been Newvicon. Sony used their "Trinicon". Higher end Sony cameras used a SMF Trinicon, which was a Hitachi Saticon tube designed that Sony built for their single tube cameras. Other manufactures used Saticon tubes, in their cameras, but once you open the camera it has "Hitachi" written all over it on the internals, so Hitachi was building cameras for other companies. When it all boiled down to it though, there were not many players in the video camera arena, Matsushita which was Panasonic and JVC's parent company, Hitachi, and Sony were the big 3 in the video camera arena. Sony being the largest, but the vast majority of Sony's output went to the 5 and6 digit cameras used by broadcasters.
Thank you for this video. Have had one of these in my closet for a while because VCR repair seems daunting. My 585 loads tapes fine, but tape will begin to move up and down on the drum and crinkle on the pinch roller. The blue gear was broken and I'm going to try and superglue it. Is my issue likely because of this broken gear causing a speed to be set incorrectly or something not to be in place?
@@12voltvids Nearly pulled my hair out redoing alignment over and over... turns out I forgot to plug in the drum! Works perfect now. Know so much more about the mechanism thanks to your video. Nice to save a good machine from the landfill.
I'm having some trouble with what exactly you were referring to when you mention those 2 clips you pop off to remove the board from the underside to get access to that left gear that breaks. I don't see anything that is a clip there and the video doesn't highlight what exactly is being clipped off. Could you tell me exactly what you unclipped?
I have this exact model. All of the mechanical functions seem to be working perfectly. Tape moves forward, backward, high-speed rewind. The problems observed are the linear counter remains locked at 00:00:00 and the video display is a solid blue screen with the data in white lettering. So no video whatsoever. Do you think the issue might be that the read head is not spinning? I have not performed any disassembly and have not removed the outer cover.
No, the control track is not being read. The unit counts the control track pulses. 30 pulses = 1 second on the counter. No control track, the machine thinks the tape is blank and you get a blue screen.
OK... I got everything working on the bottom side . The tape loads and the tape wraps around the tape head but the P6 guide does not engage and the pinch roller does not come down. I got the timing good on the bottom side and the timing in the controller, what am I missing?
@@12voltvids I can't seem to add a picture but there is also a few missing teeth. I could e-mail the pic. I don't see the timing marks on the upp gears by the picch roller, I got the bottom side timed. dennis@gobickers.com
I recently fixed this issue on mine. The eject button broke, and I had to replace it. If you press the button and don't hear anything, it's probably the button.
No it was a sticking pendulum arm. That is the gear that flips back and forth to engage the gear to either the take up or supply. That is why I took all the gears out and put a drop of oil on the shafts..
@@12voltvids Thank you very much!! Quick question: Have you ever dealt with security screws on vhs tapes? How do you remove those without breaking the cassette housing?
At 3:35 we see the problem. The pendulum gear is not engaging in the reverse direction. @ 14:41 I take apart the clutch and drive assembly to lubricate the sticking pendulum arm, and gears. That is where the problem was, under the plastic plate that I removed at 14:41. The remaining stuff was for maintenance, The mode switch ect.
I can't for the life of me seem to figure out how to release the connections that allow you to take the board out. It's obscured in the video. You say just reach in and release them. I'm stuck at this point
Thanks for making this video. So I fix everything including the broken gear. The blue one I replaced it with a new one. I have sound and occasionally a little bit of picture. I don't know where to go now. Cleaned the heads but it's no better. I'll go through your videos and see if there is a video on this problem
No luck with head cleaning. Very frustrating to have got this far and there is real bad picture or just blue screen. Menu works. Tried new cables. Is there a forum I should use to ask more questions?
Fixed around a dozen VCR's with a warn out idler pulley when I was a kid. Took a knife and cut grooves all the way around it so it would get traction. Think they lasted longer after doing this than it did up until it broke. People got a kick out of a 12 year old fixing there VCR. About The back light. People on here get anal over how you fixed it. I have the same problem. The thing is these item are at half life or more anyways. Not worth dumping tons into it just to NOT get your moneys worth again..
Oh believe me I get lectures from some goofs on the internet, and most of these comments get nuked before they get read. A good example was the defective HDMI - composite adapter. I get called a cheap SOB for buying one off Amazon, and I should spend more and get a quality product. And what is the name of your company so I know never to deal with you. Trolls. They won't get a response, and will have their comment deleted. For a few that have made a personal attack on my character, well I have a button that I can click that says the user is harassing me. I don't use that one often, but I have. Almost used it a few weeks ago, after I made the video about my content being stolen, and re-uploaded by another user. A few know-it-all's claimed that I have no rights to my video content I upload. Well I showed them how seriously youtube took this and removed the content the other user copied from my channel. Even with that these same users claimed that the link (of the removed content) proved nothing, because well the content had already been removed. "Where is your evidence" was one such remark. I don't have time for these people. I just go on, make my videos, and help people get their stuff going as cheaply as possible. I love the ones that criticize me for using heat guns or halogen lamps to re-flow BGA solder. How I should invest thousands in a proper re-flow station. Again, if I did this for a living I would do that, but I don't and 99% of people watching also do not have re-flow stations at their disposal, and those that do, well they don't need my help fixing stuff as they are in the business and should already know what they are doing.
I often see VCRS at junk stores under 10$. I usually look on back for S Video jacks. Those I'll take, but they're few and far between. And BETA are more rare. But I avoid the junk brands, and stick to better ones like JVC, Mitsubishi, Sony, Panny, Toshiba Hitachi, and maybe the better Sharp. Samsung, Funai, Daewoo, RCA, Sears, Memerex, Philips, Magnavox, GPX, Gold Star, Zenith, etc, are most common. I have a few tape eaters and reject jammers. I usually scrap them, and buy replacements at junk stores because getting parts is near impossible, even belts are very scarce and cost more than simply getting another junk store VCR. You can test them in store before you buy, and now some GW's and SA's have a three day return / refund policy. But my Sony hifi Beta will get repaired, it has a tape jammed in it now. You have a vid up on a simular one, so I'll pull that one out, and see wassup inside. Some are worth fixing, like those with S Video jacks, like my JVC VHS that has trouble rewinding, like in this vid. Thanks Dave, I just may take a whack at it, beats the scrap heap, and if I fail to fix it, I still learned something, and then can toss the carcus away. Don
The only machines with S video jacks are S-VHS decks, and yes they are few and far between because most people didn't buy into the better picture quality. They didn't care. As long as they could record "The Simpsons" and play movies they were happy.
@@12voltvids There are a few non S-VHS decks with S-Video out. I have two dual format (Hi8 & VHS) made by Sony... A SLV-T2000 and a EV-T1. Both PAL. Great machines by the way.
@@josegti84 That's a hi8 deck. That is why it has s video out. I haven't seen any vhs decks with s video out unless it is a combo such as with a dvd player, and guess what. The component and s video outputs are only active when playing the dvd. The vhs deck only played through the composite output.
@@12voltvids It's dual format... Hi8 & VHS. It was designed for dubbing from Hi8 to VHS. It has S-Video in & out, as well as composite outputs. The video signal goes out untouched, with the luma and chrominance signals travelling separately. The VHS format is recorded that way, unlike other formats like laserdisc. Please check the specs for the models I refered to. I've been watching VHS through S-Video with these two machines for years. Also, in addition to the S-Video jacks, you have a menu option for selecting the desired output (s-video vs composite) through the scart output. Your tv scart input must support that though.
@@josegti84 That is because it is primarily a hi8 machine, so it already has the separate luma and chroma circuits. Incidentally there is no reason regular VHS couldn't have it because the chroma and luma circuits are already seperate, however there is no need for it. VHS doesn't have enough horizontal detail to cause crosstalk. S-VHS and Hi-8 does. The reason it exists is because hi-8 and svhs could record enough detail that would cause dot crawl and color sync strobing. Think a hockey ref's jersey or a pin stripe tie with the color beating with the lumanence. VHS doesn't record enough information for this to be an issue, but hi-8, svhs, dvd and DV certainly does. So the solution was to sent the lumanence (B/W video) and chroma information seperately. Composite just mixes the 2 together. Since they already had the Y/C seperate for the hi8 side, the VHS can share the same circuit. The DVD / VHS combo units on the other hand did not. They had 2 sets of outputs, actually 3. The had component, s-video (Y/C) and composite. The component and y/c outputs only output a signal from the DVD player. The composite and channel 3 output output both the VHS and the DVD side. Laserdisk was a composite format. The luma and chroma signals were recorded onto the disk as a composite signal, so no need for an S video output. Some players featured one as a selling feature but all it did was run the composite video signal through a cheap comb filter to seperate the 2 signals. Any high end Sony TV had a far better 3D comb filter in it than any laserdisk. The only thing y/c cables do is prevent high frequency video signals from causing interference on the chroma line. When high detail video gets close to the subcarrier frequency (3.579545 for NTSC and 4.43 for PAL) it would beat with the suppressed subcarrier and cause the dot crawl and strobing) Since regular VHS could not record that high of video frequency, S video was unnecessary, and provides no benefit. In Y/C the red and blue signals are mixed together and need to be decoded, whereas component sends the red and blue information on it's own path, which improves the quality even more for digital sources.
I will be doing another SL2000 Betamax portable video soon. I have a machine that needs service, so as the weather warms and I have more time I will be looking at that one. I have an SLHF1000 with a sticky drum motor I will be looking at again sometime too.
Just here to echo many others: I bought a 585 from a thrift store last week and upon receiving my replacement blue gear I got it working today thanks to these videos 👍
Got a 585 from the thrift store working today thanks to your videos. The blue gear was broken and the P6 lever was completely seized. Came out of this experience feeling great and knowing so much more, I really appreciate you doing these videos.
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What a great video!!! I repaired my Sony SLV-686HF which has identical mechanisms you've described. It had the two classic problems you mentioned. I had to replace the broken blue gear and clean the p6 guide lever because of dried lubricant. I could never get the proper alignment of the gears until seeing this video. Your excellent detailed explanation of the gear alignment saved my bacon otherwise I would have probably just junked the thing.
PS I just love your messy work bench where you can find the proper tool in no time. Just like me. After the wife re-organizes my bench because of the mess I have difficulty finding anything!!! LOL
Keep up the great work.
It's pure pleasure to watch you work. Real PRO! Thanks for sharing, I hope to be able to fix my SLV issue. It won't load the tape at all.
I am from Nepal. I love to see vhs machines working. love this beautiful creation. i m myself looking for an old machine to keep it as a memory
A excellent service 12V;
thanks so much, to upload this video.
Your knowledge of these things is simply amazing.
Thanks for the explanation! I cannot wait for my slv825 to break down ;-)
Very nice. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
IN MY LIFE I DID'T LEARN LIKE YOU..U . R . AMASSING MAN REALY & LIKE YOUR INFO . THANKS
Excellent education and reference video to archive.
Great video!
Fixing a sony 595hf blue gear replacement job now and the retaining clip wasn't held in, the screw was missing.
There was a marker written on the top lid showing the roller was replaced in 1999. Got a Samsung VCR/DVD combo with it clicking during rewinding so I'll check the pendulum cog.
Thanks.
I same this problem! Excellent explanation.
I really love all your video"s. The vcr ones bring back good memories. I started in the 80's when they came out. Went to Panasonic a week on the PV-1270 then to Sony for a week on the sl-5800. Boy was I confused after those 2 weeks. But have still worked on them. I would like to see you overhaul and realigh what I thought was the most mechanical nightmare of all vcr chassis. The G chassis. It was in panasonic,quasar, rca, and lots of others. Thanks and keep them coming. Jimmy USA (alabama)
I believe I have done a G chassis. I forget all the chassis numbers but wasn't the G as in garbage chassis the one with only 2 motors, drum and capstan, and a clutch was used to load / unload the tape AND operate the front loader? Or am I thinking of the "K" chassis. Been so long.
thats it. Had a bunch of gears to break and re time. I think the K came after Thanks
Jim
thats it. Had a bunch of gears to break and re time. I think the K came after Thanks
Jim
A Sony SLV575 was my first VCR from 1991. Great machine! I had to replace the brake pads when the tape started spooling out inside the machine when stopping in the middle of a fast forward. I don't recall what happened to the machine or why I retired it.
your right on the back light . looks great
This is why I showed it. The missing lamp you really don't see unless you are looking for it. Under normal viewing it is completely invisible. You can see it on color bars, or a full color or white screen. By contrast, if that single lamp was replaced, and was putting out double the brightness of the rest of the lamp you would really see it. I have no idea how many % all the lamps are down. All fluorescent bulbs gradually loose lumans over the life of the lamp. I know for sure we can certainly spot them at work when they change a single lamp in a continuous row of 12 4' lamps. The new ones stick out like a sore thumb.
Another excellent repair, done by the Main Man :)
Not according to 3 people! :)
I frequently fall into that category, but its only be cause I don't know how give complements. Just remember" Illegitimi non carborundum" it is Latin meaning "Don't let the bastards grind you down".
I have a total of 3 VCR's that have a problem. I'm working on saving VHS tapes that I've recorded over many years to a digital format and I have only one working VCR. I'm hoping to get at least 2 of these repaired.
The VCR's I have is a Sony SLV-N700, a Sony VCR/DVD combo SLV-D360P and I purchased a used JVC HR-XVC11 (which is a VCR/DVD combo) from Goodwill to have a second working VCR (it was the only one they had).
The Sony SLV-N700 tries to load a VHS tape, and before it's completely loaded, you can hear (and see with the cover off) the rewind take up wheel spinning. Before the tape fully loads it ejects. Sometimes the tape does fully load, but the tape indicator on the front display flashes.
The Sony SLV-D360P VCR/DVD combo, a couple tapes broke while winding a tape. Now when trying to load a tape, it won't load. The only way it'll load is to spin the loading motor to get the tape to load ... however even though it loads the spindles don't move and it sometimes ejects the tape ... however when it ejects, the tape isn't taken up.
The JVC HR-XVC11 VCR/DVD combo (the one bought from Goodwill) started to work fine, but the audio cut out and now there is no audio.
Any ideas and can these be repaired for a reasonable price??
We used to have this same exact Sony VCR back around 1991 or so, but ours later broke like around 2007, and it's a really darn shame, since I liked that VCR. We also lost the remote over time (since disabling the on-screen counter display was so annoying to do since it required the matching Sony remote). Ironically, I also recall that the system date and time settings on this Sony VCR model could only go from January 1, 1991, all the way up to December 31, 2006 for some reason (it can't go to any further system dates after the year 2006).
Great training vids...Tx for sharing...I was able to fix mine too, tx to your hints...Incredible the complexity of the mechanisms, though...Mine was an easy fix (lubricating the famous lever that brings tape to pinch roller, as it was sticking), but I can imagine if I had to take apart the clutch assembly, and align all the gears, I'd go crazy :-)
Thank you 👍
Thank You very much, super video.
Good work thank you very much
The tv back light trick was to save money, and get a tv working for free like i do with my led bulbs. When running a home and the tv blows over xmas your trick would work fast. Tank you.
In case you haven't figured it out, I try to get things going for the lowest possible cost.
Anyone can go in and change all the LEDs. Don't need much skill there, just like anyone can swap a board. To actually find the specific part that is bad is a different story.
Good video.
I thought so, but 2 people so far disagree.
its not just home movies that people want to save there are movies and unique documentaries that still have not been released on dvd or blu ray yet that people want to preserve and keep.
Get them digitized while you can.
@@12voltvids yes but i'd rather get a hold of the studio master tapes to preserve them.
95 percent of my VHS tapes are prercoded movies which I got for $.20 - $3 and most of them were given to me. I have 9 VCRs a magnovox,2 sharps,1987 Emerson, Hitachi fx6500, Sylvania, Fuji, Sony DVD/VCR, and a off brand DVD/VCR. I will copy all my VHS to my PC but I find it fun to use my VCRs
Good Vid Bro.
pressed like before even watching!
Hi. Its a great video. Can you let me know what to check if this VCR aren't loading the Tape.?
Bought a 585 knowing it just ejected the tape.
I opened and the guide arms were in the up position and seemed to be stuck.
I followed the breakdown and the smaller gear on the cam gear has a stripped part.
Also, the long sawtooth gear wouldn't move.
Is this worth repairing?
Oh, one of the plastic nubs that you line up with the cam gear with has broken off.
But the blue gear seems to be good!
I was able to fix my SLV-R5UC following this tutorial. The blue gear was broken and brake need some adjusting. However, the left channel isn't working well. The audio is very low. I tried different tapes,cables,and headphone jack. I'm not sure if problem existed before or if I am have my have done something incorrect while repairing the gear.
I'm not sure where or begin to troubleshoot this issue since I can't find the service manual. Anyone got any advice?
I had to order that blue gear and when I went to put the white gear back
in, I got it in place but then the center pin that it fits on - pushed
down where I couldn't get the snap on. So I took it off and tried again
and it now keeps pushing in. When I did get the gear on and the snap
on the pin - I started to put the large white gear on and as I rotated
the gears it pulled that pin up making the gear vulnerable to being
stripped. Do I need to glue that pin now? It has a perfect slip hole
but nothing to hold it in place
Great videos about VCRs. I need help with a unit I have loading a tape but ejecting it again if i press play. do you have a website?
I'm having a problem with my play, fast forward and reverse function. It's definetly something with the pedulum/idler gear. I opened up the vcr to replace the blue gear and it worked for a while. Then this problem came up the next day. Please help!! I have a 595hf model.
You are fantastic !
I have same one
When it playes there is some noise in colore and some fliker in picture
And Image disconnects and reconnects for about a second
If possible, I would like to know your opinion about the cause and area of failure. Thank you
Mine is like new but I had it boxed up for years and now no picture. The tapes play great, rewind, fast forward but I'm only getting audio and no video. Wish you lived in Houston....Lol! Please let me know if you know some place I can get mine looked at and repaired. Thank you, and hope you can help.
i had a SLV 575UC i had to replace a white gear in it under the p6 guide (i did not know it was called that) but then it still had a problem with it playing tapes in LP or SLP. i read online that is was a problem with the capstan bearing. but i did not want to put anymore money into it so i sold it
The capstan bearing was a common failure. It was weak and bent under pressure from pinch roller, causing the rotor to drag on the stator coils
I have this exact player. Runs great, just a weird thing that’s bothering me that I’d like fixed.. the front door for the tape is closed normally, and moves freely. But when a tape is inserted, the door stay open slightly and won’t fully close.. any ideas?
Great video Dave .....thank you ! I replaced my blue gear on my Sony SLV-595hf . You can still order the gear but for how much longer ....lol that sticker on the VCR looks like a Value Village sticker :) anyways take care !
Considering that it says "Value Village" that would be a good guess.
When they work they deliver a pretty good picture.
Все чётко, по полочкам👍👍👍
sorry to be so off topic but does any of you know of a trick to get back into an Instagram account?
I was stupid forgot my password. I would love any assistance you can give me.
@Corbin Grant instablaster :)
@Avi Donovan i really appreciate your reply. I got to the site on google and im in the hacking process atm.
Seems to take quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
@Avi Donovan it did the trick and I finally got access to my account again. I'm so happy:D
Thank you so much you saved my ass !
@Corbin Grant glad I could help xD
Smashing, it's doing a perfect job again :-).
The good designs make the job really nice to do, the bad ones make you wish you had not started lol.
Great you cleaned the mode switch, they can be a bloody nuisance, i can't count how many times ive cleaned them and the machine behaves itself again.
Sometimes the act of taking something apart fixes the problem, very bloody annoying as you dont get to know what the real fault was :-(.
It's a shame that vcr's have been deemed dead, very handy time shifters.
Well we did see the symptom, no take up of the tape on the supply side in reverse / rewind. So the problem was obviously mechanical. Sticky lubricant on the pendulum arm. A drop of oil solves that problem.
Yes i know you fixed it with lubing, i was just saying ive had annoying devices that after dissasembly/reassembly the dam thing works lol.
Computers have done this to me too.
I like a real fault that i actually find a bad part, otherwise i didnt really do anything :-).
Yes those ones can be annoying. Usually a bad connection on a plug, or ground, and just disassembly corrects the fault. In this case though we clearly saw the problem, so it was straight forward.
I have a problem with a vcr that the it will not let me insert the tape, I think it is something to do with the loading gears. Do you know what is wrong? I have a picture of the gear mechanism if you want to look at it. I think the gears are out of ailment.
So when installing the c-clip onto the top white gear on my 595 Sony vcr there isnt enough 'nipple' /metal to grab onto. The metal triangle sheet has a raised area so I cannot install it. HELP
alsome man I got Sony slv 790hf its was working fine till today i put tape in and when I forward or back ward its working but it will stop and won't move the I turn it off wail lil bit then it will work again what could it be it says 3ll code or something?
I am facing a problem with the sony vcr SLV-ED818SG .. It was working that is completely correct, but the signal was interrupted by the TV suddenly, so that the blue screen does not appear, nor any sound or image at all, and it seems that it is not connected to the TV. Can you help me find a solution?
Hello, please suggest how to fix the gear mechanism of a Sony 286EE. Please-)))))
You should have also cleaned the sensor in the shuttle, it often fails like mode switches.
Yes I know, but it wasn't bad and the unit is not going back in service anyway.
Hallo,
I have a problem with a Sony SLV-757 VCR. Assuming that I have cleaned all the mechanisms that needed to be lubricated (following your videos): blue gear replaced, switch rotator and pich roller lever lubricated, forward and reverse mechanism clutch cleaned, heads cleaned. I still have a problem to solve, ie when I insert a cassette where the tape is at the beginning, the Sony VCR loads the tape onto the head drum and immediately ejects it. Only if I slide all the transparent tail by hand, and then feed the cassette it into the VCR, will it accept it and can I play it. I state that all the various functions work: forward, backward, normal and fast reverse speed. When I rewind at fast speed, the tape that has reached the end is automatically ejected, while at normal speed the problem does not arise. What can it be?
Dave, recently I aquired a few gems at GW. A LiteOn DVD recorder deck w/remote for 7$ from VOA. A Sansui A/V77 Processor for 6$ from GW. This has the ten pin video csmera jack. And from ebay, I got the Videonics MX1 for 50$ that needs a wall wart. Somewhere around here, I have an old saticon video camera, either it was a JVC or maybe Magnavox that I found at a junk store, w/o power supply. The camera had a ten pin plug. Q, are ten pin video camera jacks pretty much standard pinout? I think Sony cams were the exception if I recall right, but I'd like to try the old camera on this Sansui. I plan to hook these units to a VCR this weekend, and make a demo vid if they all work. But um hesitant to connect the camera to the Sansui. My very first video camera outfit was a Sharp Saticon camera into a Hitachi portable VCR, that had the same ten pin jack. That old camera may be stashed in the attic with the squirrels. Don
All the 10 pin connectors for home video cameras were the same.
Sony used a 14 pin connector for their SL2000 and 2001 recorder, but the Beta 1 SLO340 used the 10 pin.
Saticon was only found on Hitachi made cameras. Panasonic and JVC used Matsushita tubes, which would have been Newvicon. Sony used their "Trinicon". Higher end Sony cameras used a SMF Trinicon, which was a Hitachi Saticon tube designed that Sony built for their single tube cameras.
Other manufactures used Saticon tubes, in their cameras, but once you open the camera it has "Hitachi" written all over it on the internals, so Hitachi was building cameras for other companies. When it all boiled down to it though, there were not many players in the video camera arena, Matsushita which was Panasonic and JVC's parent company, Hitachi, and Sony were the big 3 in the video camera arena. Sony being the largest, but the vast majority of Sony's output went to the 5 and6 digit cameras used by broadcasters.
Thank you for this video. Have had one of these in my closet for a while because VCR repair seems daunting. My 585 loads tapes fine, but tape will begin to move up and down on the drum and crinkle on the pinch roller. The blue gear was broken and I'm going to try and superglue it. Is my issue likely because of this broken gear causing a speed to be set incorrectly or something not to be in place?
Replace the gear. They cost about 5 bucks Canadian. You can get it at kpcomponents.co
That's not a mistake it is .co not .com
Thank you for the link. Like you said, must be a really common problem for them to still be manufacturing that gear 30+ years later.
@@wyattazcooks oh yeah very common failure but these machines were pretty good over all and they deliver a great picture.
@@12voltvids Nearly pulled my hair out redoing alignment over and over... turns out I forgot to plug in the drum! Works perfect now. Know so much more about the mechanism thanks to your video. Nice to save a good machine from the landfill.
Hi sir i have problem for sony alv x1 sony vcp mode switch timing pl leme know sir
Block the light where exactly?
I'm having some trouble with what exactly you were referring to when you mention those 2 clips you pop off to remove the board from the underside to get access to that left gear that breaks. I don't see anything that is a clip there and the video doesn't highlight what exactly is being clipped off. Could you tell me exactly what you unclipped?
Im having the same issue, did you ever figure out how to detatch those?
Nice job vcr are not easy to work on...
Some can be tough for sure. I have a few dogs that are barking now. A PV1740 comes to mind. Some day I will tackle that one again.
I have this exact model. All of the mechanical functions seem to be working perfectly. Tape moves forward, backward, high-speed rewind. The problems observed are the linear counter remains locked at 00:00:00 and the video display is a solid blue screen with the data in white lettering. So no video whatsoever. Do you think the issue might be that the read head is not spinning? I have not performed any disassembly and have not removed the outer cover.
No, the control track is not being read. The unit counts the control track pulses. 30 pulses = 1 second on the counter. No control track, the machine thinks the tape is blank and you get a blue screen.
@@12voltvids Thank you the quick and detailed response. Do you know what needs to be fixed or the likely cause of the problem?
OK... I got everything working on the bottom side . The tape loads and the tape wraps around the tape head but the P6 guide does not engage and the pinch roller does not come down. I got the timing good on the bottom side and the timing in the controller, what am I missing?
Timing of the tower gear. That is the one that lowers the pinch roller. There are timing marks on it as well.
@@12voltvids I can't seem to add a picture but there is also a few missing teeth. I could e-mail the pic. I don't see the timing marks on the upp gears by the picch roller, I got the bottom side timed. dennis@gobickers.com
my problem i getting the eject tape to work? suggestions? please, havent used player for over a year
I recently fixed this issue on mine. The eject button broke, and I had to replace it. If you press the button and don't hear anything, it's probably the button.
Hi anyone got any idea why a cd player only works when it's warmed up Marantz CD-63 Compact Disc Player?
Bad capacitors.
Seems like you need to be a watchmaker to work on VCRs with all those gears.
Try working on 8mm camcorders. Better still try working on mini DV camcorders and DAT mechanism.
was the mode switch caused the rewind problem?
No it was a sticking pendulum arm. That is the gear that flips back and forth to engage the gear to either the take up or supply. That is why I took all the gears out and put a drop of oil on the shafts..
Thanks for posting! Cheers!
@@12voltvids Hi, why didn't you use the molykote grease...? Thanks for the video.
@@josegti84
I don't have much. I'll keep that for machines that need it.
@@12voltvids Thank you very much!! Quick question: Have you ever dealt with security screws on vhs tapes? How do you remove those without breaking the cassette housing?
tbh.. is it worth it? VHS? Hmmm.. all that work..
What was or at what point in the video did you point out the problem?
At 3:35 we see the problem. The pendulum gear is not engaging in the reverse direction. @ 14:41 I take apart the clutch and drive assembly to lubricate the sticking pendulum arm, and gears. That is where the problem was, under the plastic plate that I removed at 14:41. The remaining stuff was for maintenance,
The mode switch ect.
I re-watched it thanks, I just missed it. Thanks
I watched the entire video on my viewfinder crt😂
I can't for the life of me seem to figure out how to release the connections that allow you to take the board out. It's obscured in the video. You say just reach in and release them. I'm stuck at this point
Ok I got it. It's just more force than I expected. One finger in the center on the right side and lift. It will pop up
Yes that's it
Thanks for making this video.
So I fix everything including the broken gear. The blue one I replaced it with a new one.
I have sound and occasionally a little bit of picture. I don't know where to go now. Cleaned the heads but it's no better.
I'll go through your videos and see if there is a video on this problem
No luck with head cleaning. Very frustrating to have got this far and there is real bad picture or just blue screen. Menu works. Tried new cables.
Is there a forum I should use to ask more questions?
@@johntiffin7165
How is the RF from the head preamp?
Fixed around a dozen VCR's with a warn out idler pulley when I was a kid. Took a knife and cut grooves all the way around it so it would get traction. Think they lasted longer after doing this than it did up until it broke. People got a kick out of a 12 year old fixing there VCR.
About The back light. People on here get anal over how you fixed it. I have the same problem. The thing is these item are at half life or more anyways. Not worth dumping tons into it just to NOT get your moneys worth again..
Oh believe me I get lectures from some goofs on the internet, and most of these comments get nuked before they get read.
A good example was the defective HDMI - composite adapter. I get called a cheap SOB for buying one off Amazon, and I should spend more and get a quality product. And what is the name of your company so I know never to deal with you. Trolls. They won't get a response, and will have their comment deleted. For a few that have made a personal attack on my character, well I have a button that I can click that says the user is harassing me. I don't use that one often, but I have. Almost used it a few weeks ago, after I made the video about my content being stolen, and re-uploaded by another user. A few know-it-all's claimed that I have no rights to my video content I upload.
Well I showed them how seriously youtube took this and removed the content the other user copied from my channel. Even with that these same users claimed that the link (of the removed content) proved nothing, because well the content had already been removed. "Where is your evidence" was one such remark. I don't have time for these people. I just go on, make my videos, and help people get their stuff going as cheaply as possible. I love the ones that criticize me for using heat guns or halogen lamps to re-flow BGA solder.
How I should invest thousands in a proper re-flow station. Again, if I did this for a living I would do that, but I don't and 99% of people watching also do not have re-flow stations at their disposal, and those that do, well they don't need my help fixing stuff as they are in the business and should already know what they are doing.
You never showed how to get the top off !!!
I often see VCRS at junk stores under 10$. I usually look on back for S Video jacks. Those I'll take, but they're few and far between. And BETA are more rare. But I avoid the junk brands, and stick to better ones like JVC, Mitsubishi, Sony, Panny, Toshiba Hitachi, and maybe the better Sharp. Samsung, Funai, Daewoo, RCA, Sears, Memerex, Philips, Magnavox, GPX, Gold Star, Zenith, etc, are most common. I have a few tape eaters and reject jammers. I usually scrap them, and buy replacements at junk stores because getting parts is near impossible, even belts are very scarce and cost more than simply getting another junk store VCR. You can test them in store before you buy, and now some GW's and SA's have a three day return / refund policy. But my Sony hifi Beta will get repaired, it has a tape jammed in it now. You have a vid up on a simular one, so I'll pull that one out, and see wassup inside. Some are worth fixing, like those with S Video jacks, like my JVC VHS that has trouble rewinding, like in this vid. Thanks Dave, I just may take a whack at it, beats the scrap heap, and if I fail to fix it, I still learned something, and then can toss the carcus away. Don
The only machines with S video jacks are S-VHS decks, and yes they are few and far between because most people didn't buy into the better picture quality. They didn't care. As long as they could record "The Simpsons" and play movies they were happy.
@@12voltvids There are a few non S-VHS decks with S-Video out. I have two dual format (Hi8 & VHS) made by Sony... A SLV-T2000 and a EV-T1. Both PAL. Great machines by the way.
@@josegti84
That's a hi8 deck. That is why it has s video out. I haven't seen any vhs decks with s video out unless it is a combo such as with a dvd player, and guess what. The component and s video outputs are only active when playing the dvd. The vhs deck only played through the composite output.
@@12voltvids It's dual format... Hi8 & VHS. It was designed for dubbing from Hi8 to VHS. It has S-Video in & out, as well as composite outputs. The video signal goes out untouched, with the luma and chrominance signals travelling separately. The VHS format is recorded that way, unlike other formats like laserdisc. Please check the specs for the models I refered to. I've been watching VHS through S-Video with these two machines for years. Also, in addition to the S-Video jacks, you have a menu option for selecting the desired output (s-video vs composite) through the scart output. Your tv scart input must support that though.
@@josegti84 That is because it is primarily a hi8 machine, so it already has the separate luma and chroma circuits. Incidentally there is no reason regular VHS couldn't have it because the chroma and luma circuits are already seperate, however there is no need for it. VHS doesn't have enough horizontal detail to cause crosstalk.
S-VHS and Hi-8 does.
The reason it exists is because hi-8 and svhs could record enough detail that would cause dot crawl and color sync strobing. Think a hockey ref's jersey or a pin stripe tie with the color beating with the lumanence. VHS doesn't record enough information for this to be an issue, but hi-8, svhs, dvd and DV certainly does. So the solution was to sent the lumanence (B/W video) and chroma information seperately. Composite just mixes the 2 together.
Since they already had the Y/C seperate for the hi8 side, the VHS can share the same circuit.
The DVD / VHS combo units on the other hand did not. They had 2 sets of outputs, actually 3.
The had component, s-video (Y/C) and composite.
The component and y/c outputs only output a signal from the DVD player. The composite and channel 3 output output both the VHS and the DVD side.
Laserdisk was a composite format. The luma and chroma signals were recorded onto the disk as a composite signal, so no need for an S video output. Some players featured one as a selling feature but all it did was run the composite video signal through a cheap comb filter to seperate the 2 signals. Any high end Sony TV had a far better 3D comb filter in it than any laserdisk.
The only thing y/c cables do is prevent high frequency video signals from causing interference on the chroma line. When high detail video gets close to the subcarrier frequency (3.579545 for NTSC and 4.43 for PAL) it would beat with the suppressed subcarrier and cause the dot crawl and strobing) Since regular VHS could not record that high of video frequency, S video was unnecessary, and provides no benefit.
In Y/C the red and blue signals are mixed together and need to be decoded, whereas component sends the red and blue information on it's own path, which improves the quality even more for digital sources.
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I will be doing another SL2000 Betamax portable video soon. I have a machine that needs service, so as the weather warms and I have more time I will be looking at that one. I have an SLHF1000 with a sticky drum motor I will be looking at again sometime too.