Until lately, I always thought that the tape was retracted from the head during FF and Rewind operations on most VHS machines, unless they were in search mode. I have only worked on a couple that kept tape in contact with the heads recently. Thanks for a great video!
I learn so much from your videos!Was able to repair a Sony TC-K71 deck from watching you black tape belt to flywheel.,installing,& removing black tape.Also freed up sticking take up reel that was causing it to not FF or play.Just wanted to give you credit for knowledge.Thanks man!
Back in the early 90's a customer brought in a VCR that had ate a tape, so he decided it needed some lubrication and had sprayed WD40 liberally through the tape door. We had to tell him "It's dead Jim."
I had a customer that did that. Actually he dumped a vodka and oj into his top loaded more than once. They sprayed nutrol contact cleaner into it. I charged him an arm and leg every time he did it which was about once a month. He paid me I over a year about what a new machine cost and they were 2000 back then.
Dave did you know on the late 90's funai tv vcr combos the front loading belt likes to abruptly jam and the tape can got stuck in it and the tv turns off. You will eventually recieve a combo with that symptom. That happened with my grandma mary carol's old 1996 Zenith TV VCR back in Summer 2009 i think with one of her 2 copies of the 1992 black diamond vhs of beauty and the beast.
I know this is an old vid but, years ago I bought a Betamax from a carboot sale, tested electronically for 50p on another stall so I paid £7 for it. Discovered there was a head problem tape slippage and curling, after hours of adjusting pins it would play but looked like it was chewing the tapes, I eventually got it good enough to play a tape, ff rw but if you pressed play and cue, erm well by the time you pressed stop there was loads of tape piled up inside.
2005 I too had taken a cruise to Alaska...cant remember the name of the ship...however this sounds familiar....I also bought one of those survivor tapes. I'll never do another cruise, its all a scam...they take you to ports they have a financial stake in. It was fun otherwise. ~Jack, VEG
It pays to be sceptical when people bring in VCRs out of warranty. I'm sure you have come across machines where customer has opened a VCR, sprayed the head drum with WD-40 thinking it will solve the squeaking noise.
Yeah but the tapes still work after 50+ years, tape's is a proven technology, would love to see the same for DVD's and Blu-ray. DVD is released in late 1996, Magnetic medium is released in 1928, my fathers old movies of when he was a little kid are still working, and that is more then 50 years ago. I my self have about 150 movies on DVD, and about 17 Blu-ray movies, but yeah i hope they sill work after 40 years.
I just bought the exact VCR to test VHS tapes. The first tape I put in worked fine until I pressed eject then I heard all the film being destroyed inside.
Loving your videos. I would love to see you do a video repairing a Go Pro Hero 9 audio popping/crackling issue. This problem seems to plague many many Hero 9 camera owners. Beautiful 5K picture but audio popping issue is another story. Go Pro support team keeps telling us they’re working on a solution for the past 9 months. They obviously haven’t a clue how to fix it at this point. I have the same issue with mine but it only occurs on the first couple minutes of footage so I’m able to live with it but it seems to be driving other owners crazy. Maybe you can be the Hero to the solution ....no pun intended. Lol
I am curious. I have a 2015 DVR620KU that is being particularly finicky on tightly would tapes and heavy HQ epitaxial cassettes. Some tapes work great with no issues other tapes are a no go. I have to several rewinds and /FF on another machine to try an re-tension the problem cassettes. Any wisdom in that area? Also it appears this model has the VCR on a riser. Is the mode switch easier to get to than the previous Toshiba models you worked on? Thank you for your videos.
Now usually, Spats Bear made the video how did the VCR/DVD combo had failed titled the video of "Funai.....", what he had done, he smashed the Funai VCR/DVD combo making complaint that the quality did not last long, and for me, I had two of the Funai Made VCR made like, Symphonic, and Magnavox VCR and never had any issues ever, though DVD ones the laser has a tendency to fail when it was used every time when watching the shows, movies, infomercial, and slideshows. One time when I repaired the Funai made DVD is Philips HD DVD player, I've noticed the Laser has been melt and been burned and I went ahead and replace the laser, got them working fine and no issues once so ever.
I used to give my former business partner a bad time because he had 100 funai VCRs and he used to duplicate tapes, but you know what he ran the crap out of those machines and they never failed other than the odd time. I only had 10 duplicators I didn't run them day and night as I only did small runs and I had many more failures over the years than he did.
An uneducated guess. I hear people suggest using a spray silicone lubricant all the time. I don't know why they suggest that.. experience with WD40 and a door lock? They might have sprayed on the Cog on the tape reel in the Cassette when it squeeled and that migrated to the Tape and found its way on to the drum when it played.
I had the opportunity to check out an old reel to reel "VTR" that just happened to have one of its two heads bad. I saw it under magnification & it was ugly, all crumbled. I told the customer due to its age I may not be able to get a "head" for it. It wasn't actually a head drum, a bar with the pickups spin in a slit. What a waste of history.
i thought the oil was wd40. I've had a few messes to clean up with the wd40 spraying idiots. I'm no lover of a cluttered deck but that one is simple, well the top is. I'm sure funari decks are no worse than any others.
Until lately, I always thought that the tape was retracted from the head during FF and Rewind operations on most VHS machines, unless they were in search mode. I have only worked on a couple that kept tape in contact with the heads recently. Thanks for a great video!
It depends on the unit iirc
I learn so much from your videos!Was able to repair a Sony TC-K71 deck from watching you black tape belt to flywheel.,installing,& removing black tape.Also freed up sticking take up reel that was causing it to not FF or play.Just wanted to give you credit for knowledge.Thanks man!
Yay! You saved someone's precious sea cruise souvenir video!
Back in the early 90's a customer brought in a VCR that had ate a tape, so he decided it needed some lubrication and had sprayed WD40 liberally through the tape door. We had to tell him "It's dead Jim."
I had a customer that did that. Actually he dumped a vodka and oj into his top loaded more than once. They sprayed nutrol contact cleaner into it. I charged him an arm and leg every time he did it which was about once a month. He paid me I over a year about what a new machine cost and they were 2000 back then.
Just need to give the tape an alcohol bath and wipe. I would clean out the tape shell as well.
Ho dod you think I cleaned the damaged section in the middle.
Dave did you know on the late 90's funai tv vcr combos the front loading belt likes to abruptly jam and the tape can got stuck in it and the tv turns off. You will eventually recieve a combo with that symptom. That happened with my grandma mary carol's old 1996 Zenith TV VCR back in Summer 2009 i think with one of her 2 copies of the 1992 black diamond vhs of beauty and the beast.
Auto Head Cleaners always end up becoming Auto Head Dirtiers
I know this is an old vid but, years ago I bought a Betamax from a carboot sale, tested electronically for 50p on another stall so I paid £7 for it. Discovered there was a head problem tape slippage and curling, after hours of adjusting pins it would play but looked like it was chewing the tapes, I eventually got it good enough to play a tape, ff rw but if you pressed play and cue, erm well by the time you pressed stop there was loads of tape piled up inside.
2005 I too had taken a cruise to Alaska...cant remember the name of the ship...however this sounds familiar....I also bought one of those survivor tapes. I'll never do another cruise, its all a scam...they take you to ports they have a financial stake in. It was fun otherwise. ~Jack, VEG
Never been on a cruise don't have any real desire to go on one. Neighbors daughter worked on a ship. That is before covid. Now she out of work.
very good video, thank you
It pays to be sceptical when people bring in VCRs out of warranty.
I'm sure you have come across machines where customer has opened a VCR, sprayed the head drum with WD-40 thinking it will solve the squeaking noise.
Bye bye John The VHS Tape.
That's why I upgraded to DVDs & Blu-rays. Tapes tear up to fast. The VHS Players are tape Eating hogs. 📼📼
Yeah but the tapes still work after 50+ years, tape's is a proven technology, would love to see the same for DVD's and Blu-ray.
DVD is released in late 1996, Magnetic medium is released in 1928, my fathers old movies of when he was a little kid are still working, and that is more then 50 years ago.
I my self have about 150 movies on DVD, and about 17 Blu-ray movies, but yeah i hope they sill work after 40 years.
I just bought the exact VCR to test VHS tapes. The first tape I put in worked fine until I pressed eject then I heard all the film being destroyed inside.
Every VCR that has been sitting needs the mode switch cleaned before use. Otherwise you run the risk of an eaten tape 😫
@@12voltvids The VCR's I bought were really dusty, so that makes sense. Thank you.👍
Loving your videos. I would love to see you do a video repairing a Go Pro Hero 9 audio popping/crackling issue. This problem seems to plague many many Hero 9 camera owners. Beautiful 5K picture but audio popping issue is another story. Go Pro support team keeps telling us they’re working on a solution for the past 9 months. They obviously haven’t a clue how to fix it at this point.
I have the same issue with mine but it only occurs on the first couple minutes of footage so I’m able to live with it but it seems to be driving other owners crazy.
Maybe you can be the Hero to the solution ....no pun intended. Lol
I found this channel, just by trying figure out how to rescue my dads Sony TR60E that has the hi8 cassette stuck and showing enject.
The one I feel is the holy grail is the Magnavox Blu-Ray Vcr combo very hard to find
I believe the only vcr bluray dvd combo to ever existed was made by panasonic. It is the model dmp-bd70v.
Yep, some people will try and fix there own vcrs but lucky they dont try there tvs because of the high voltage. Great.
Tv not that high voltage. Just picture tube on old tv. Plasma had a few hundred volts. New ones all low voltage. Except power supply.
I am curious. I have a 2015 DVR620KU that is being particularly finicky on tightly would tapes and heavy HQ epitaxial cassettes. Some tapes work great with no issues other tapes are a no go. I have to several rewinds and /FF on another machine to try an re-tension the problem cassettes. Any wisdom in that area? Also it appears this model has the VCR on a riser. Is the mode switch easier to get to than the previous Toshiba models you worked on? Thank you for your videos.
I don't like how it works. I was going to change it out, but unfortunately,.... I had to.
8:44 i am neutral to funai. None of them ate tapes on me.
Now usually, Spats Bear made the video how did the VCR/DVD combo had failed titled the video of "Funai.....", what he had done, he smashed the Funai VCR/DVD combo making complaint that the quality did not last long, and for me, I had two of the Funai Made VCR made like, Symphonic, and Magnavox VCR and never had any issues ever, though DVD ones the laser has a tendency to fail when it was used every time when watching the shows, movies, infomercial, and slideshows. One time when I repaired the Funai made DVD is Philips HD DVD player, I've noticed the Laser has been melt and been burned and I went ahead and replace the laser, got them working fine and no issues once so ever.
I used to give my former business partner a bad time because he had 100 funai VCRs and he used to duplicate tapes, but you know what he ran the crap out of those machines and they never failed other than the odd time. I only had 10 duplicators I didn't run them day and night as I only did small runs and I had many more failures over the years than he did.
An uneducated guess. I hear people suggest using a spray silicone lubricant all the time. I don't know why they suggest that.. experience with WD40 and a door lock? They might have sprayed on the Cog on the tape reel in the Cassette when it squeeled and that migrated to the Tape and found its way on to the drum when it played.
I have no idea how it got in there
I had the opportunity to check out an old reel to reel "VTR" that just happened to have one of its two heads bad. I saw it under magnification & it was ugly, all crumbled.
I told the customer due to its age I may not be able to get a "head" for it.
It wasn't actually a head drum, a bar with the pickups spin in a slit. What a waste of history.
I have one of those and mine works.
Toshiba , lagnavox, funai great vcrs dvs portion sucks, never got to record a single dvd on them. Did play all the dvds tho
My toshiba dvd recorders have been flawless. Have burned hundreds of discs. Not made a single coaster.
i thought the oil was wd40.
I've had a few messes to clean up with the wd40 spraying idiots.
I'm no lover of a cluttered deck but that one is simple, well the top is.
I'm sure funari decks are no worse than any others.
Makes you wonder if someone had been in and put light oil on it. Nothing surprises me these days!
16:02 what cleaner agent are you using?
Alcohol
@@12voltvids ok, thanks. You probably mean isopropyl alcohol, as you use quite everywhere!
Can I send u a Samsung reciver for u to look at and see what chould be wrong with it
Nicotine and humidity ruined it probably.
Owner doesn't smoke
6:37........ WTF?!?!
Stiction
The VCR DVD Combo looks like new.
You could clean the tape with a cotton stick and 96% alcohol, i did the same with my C64 5,25" floppy's, and they now work much better.