I have the model above this. Still in use as one of my TV recorders. Watching you fight to take the drive out brought back memories. And all I wanted to do was clean the rubbery bit of the disc clamp
Easy belt fix, but they sure made you work to get to it. Good thing the Volt oil change is only every two years. We have two cars, so when full synthetic oil changes went over $100, I bought a set of ramps and do my own oil changes. Every other year on my Volt, and whenever the oil life monitor says to in the Buick.
3:30 Tape conversions in the UK: For more than 10 hours of VHS or Beta, I charge £9/hour with a minimum charge of £4.50, i.e. half an hour charge for short tapes. Then for less than 9 hours, I charge 50% more (but never such that more hours costs less, I'm fair around the 7-10 hour point). Cheaper £8/hour for 8mm and cheaper again £7/hour for miniDV. A single tape is usually £15 minimum. Well that's the way I try to keep things as simple as possible and so avoid misunderstandings. But some people just read the bit they want to read, oh it's so much per hour so they can give me a pile of 5 minute tapes and I'll run them for pennies each. Or they think it's going to save them money if I hunt around their tapes looking for just some select fragments they want.
I get 10 per tape for VHS and 8mm. Trying to get more is useless because the Facebook crowd offers it cheaper. I deal with many that offer transfers for 7 per tape. Race to the bottom. Amateurs using a dazzle box. I get more for betacam, umatic, and betamax but VHS and 8mm so many doing it and half don't understand what it is worth. Race to the bottom. Big difference in quality between a 49.00 dazzle and my 1500 capture card but people see the cost as a factor.
@@sparrowslovemeI have never seen a dazle look that good. Or any consumer capture for that matter. Most need a tbc to work properly as they are pretty sensitive to jitter. My commercial gear doesn't need a tbc. It also is unaffected by macrovision or any other copy protection including hdcp.
@@12voltvids that sucks, I get $20 up to 90 minutes, and just try to educate or then ignore anyone who wants it for less. I believe I have a quality workflow, tho no doubt it pales to yours (and it's upkeep).
The other issue with 'professional' oil changes is they use the cheapest discount oil available . With synthetic, it makes a considerable difference. Especially in older cars. DIY and use Castrol or something if you want to get the highest mileage from your engine.
@@12voltvidsI have a Sony Dat Walkman that works but sometimes when I plug it into ac it gets stuck but does not happen on batteries could it be a bad ac plug ? It’s fine on batteries no issue and evantually on ac it Wil unstick it self after a few mins I’m using a real Sony ac plug
@stpworld Umm, its kinda bad form to ask for a diagnosis in the Comments. The majority of techs and engineers, the ones that know what they're talking about, will not answer a question like yours unless there is some previous arrangements. Its one of those "unwritten rules". One of the ppl in the Comments may answer your question.
I just love your vids and commentary :). I have a Teac single cd player with door that won’t open. Cd tray assembly seems fine mechanically, no missing teeth gears, belt is good. When open button is pushed the Sanyo SF-P101N laser lens mechanism only drops down halfway and thus wont allow door to open. When I try to engage by hand it will drop down all the way. Would u think it’s a board problem or possibly still mechanical? The tray transport is a Sony cdm kills-2130ccm. Thx Dave for all you provide 😊
@@peterlarkin762 thank you! there are two I think, was wondering if they are in wrong positions. When I got the unit it wouldn’t open. Has a Burr Brown dac so would like to keep it out of the trash.
Just by curiosity was the hard drive ok in that unit? as you said that some units have a catch 22 scenario where the drive would be erased if serviced? Thats quite alarming knowing that they can do that😳.
Yes it's fine. Watch him showing off his vintage coin collection on it. Hdd is fine. I use my DVD recorders all the time. Not as much as I used to but they still get used. Have 10 tapes in that I will be making 2 copies of one on USB and the other on DVD this week. I scored over 500 blank DVDs for 20 bucks about 6 months ago and am slowly working my way through them. That's why i burned a disk in this to verrify it's working properly.
The Pioneer units require a specific service disc and special service remote to reinitialize the unit if you were to ever simply disconnect and reconnect the DVD drive.
Yesterday I I had to fix a Sony boom box that wouldn't read a CD. The laser would not go back to the home position. I then unhooked the sled motor and with bench supply I ran the motor in both directions. After that I put the boom box back together and it played a CD without skipping.
I didn't check how full it was. I picked up the same unit for 2.00 a number of years ago. Missing remote. Bought an original remote for about 90.00 only to find the hard drive was completely full of porn. Took me awhile to delete it all one title at a time.
@@12voltvids that's kinda cool and makes me think of buying one and swap the HD.. I do old vhs digitize etc here too.. thinkIng.. lookin ebay.. seems these weren't sold in the states.. Canada n UK is all I'm finding
Cant swap drives on them thw drive serial numberof the drive has to match the firmware of the chip plof the unit prbthe unit fails to boot up@@dobroplayer7
Don't let people like that ruin your mood. Just note him down to never ever do businesses with him ever again. Wish him good luck to find another person who digitizes tapes. I'm commissioning artists for over 10 years and you pay what they ask you or you pay a little more. Never argue about the price with weird rules that you make up yourself.
Hello. I have a sony slv-x30ps vhs player. I have been using it actively for 5 months. When I first bought it, the capacitors on the power stage were leaking. I replaced all of them, then after using it for 1 month, the problem started again. This happened 5 times, I always do it, 1 month passes and it breaks again, I wonder if it is normal. The problem is that the screen does not appear when connected to power, but the head and motors are constantly rotating.
Speaking of oil changes my buddy's got a 67 Chevelle hot rod with a 555 big block it takes special oil and if you don't use the special oil the warranties void on the engine it's $40 a quart it takes 12 quarts that's crazy but what are you going to do he's an old timer like me thinking about selling it it's really cool but it cost a lot to keep going have a great day keeps me inspired I keep fixing stuff
I know what's wrong with it. It doesn't work. Ha ha! Great video! Seriously, I stopped using a Blu Ray player because the drawer wouldn't open at times. I don't think it's a belt. It was like something was jamming. Well, I already bought a new one after that started acting up. So I didn't really try to find out the problem.
6:16 If you own a BMW and decide to take it in to the stealers it will cost you north of £350 ($600 Canadian) for a fluid change (brake and oil) and those are 2015 prices - that's a Stage 1 service; a Stage 2 service would be more like £500. I started going to the independents when I decided that annual warranty charges were uneconomical and I had the freedom to choose who serviced my car.
Well that's the first mistake, buying a BMW. Did you not know the letters stand for "Bring Money Weekly" The oil was changed at an independent oil change shop. They are just as bad as the stealership these days.
@@12voltvids To be fair it (a Z4) has been reliable, which is more than can be said for its predecessor (BMW Mini Cooper - first gen) fun to drive, but boy was it a money pit. I wrote the Mini of whilst coming into a roundabout too hot in wet weather, best thing that ever happened to my wallet.
Engine oil should actually be replaced every 12 months, espesially if you live in climate where temperature variance can be 40C or more. like here from -25 to +25. Water tends to get in the oil and if the engine never gets much use = never gets in to operating temperature in winter time = bad. Yes it is expensive, but not as expensive as a new engine
In EU FIAT Professional Diesel vans (there no gas option here) are oil serviced every 48K Km or two years. And the companies using those vans follow their intervals and one of the reasons they follow those intervals is because the engines are going to last even to 400K Kilometers without major breakdown. It's part of the reasons FIAT was asking premium for their model with their Diesel engines. There might be exceptions like taxis with engine running pretty much 10 hours straight or repeated start-stops without the engine ever getting warm but very few should need servicing sooner with the modern all synthetic crud they put in. Actually I believe it's pretty good stuff... you just don't buy it from FIAT at 35 Eur a liter.
On the volt the engine seldom runs. It can be 6 weeks between starts (it forces a start and warm up every 6 weeks if now used.) The computer keeps track of how many hours of run time plus how many days it has been in. % indicator ticks down regardless if used or not. I change when it gets to 5% life.
So what fixed the issue.? Was it just the belt and a clean / lube.? AC seems to be working ✅ what does a column of hot air weigh. Remembering hot air holds moisture. I thoughy you guys were into the whole HVAC thing.? Easy peasy chicken dinner.😆
The belt was weak. I don't know if it was the clamp was not clamping fully or if it was all the dust bunnies in there. I cleaned it up and changed the belt and it worked. Yes I know the hot air will be very humid that's going up into the attic because the evaporator pulls moisture out of the air dumps it into a tank in the back where does then pumped up and sprayed onto the condenser which is the hot side the water which is cold because it comes off the evaporator then vaporizes and is sent up the exhaust pipe into the Attic which then vents to the outside via this soffit. There's no insulation in this part of the attic over the garage so any moisture that gets up there will just go out of the soffit
I mean, at the end of the day it's fixable but man oh man, makes you wonder if it is worth all the hassle to take it apart and do that kind of micro surgery. Sometimes "well built" and "complexly built" step on each other. Sony does this a lot. Higher quality? Sometimes yes. now the repair price point thing happens. will the customer be willing to eat the cost of your labor to have it fixed? I suppose it depends on the person.
I made 60 on this. not much considering it cost me $160 to have the oil changed on my car and it took them all of 10 minutes but the reality is that's what people are willing to pay to have their electronic serviced. there's a reason why all the shops closed their doors it's because there's not enough money in fixing this crap to run a business, and the only reason I do it is because it gives me content for my CZcams channel that's where I'll make the money. I've gone for quantity on my channel because each video makes me a little bit of money every month when you've got 2500 plus videos. Old content according to metrics accounts for about 45% of views. Some videos have done really well. Even after all the taxes get deducted I made almost as much from the ad revenue than i did when I was fixing TV's and vcrs full time. Now if only people would not block the ads i could make even more and Uncle Sam would too because CZcams homes back over 30% for taxes. For that matter so does PayPal. So I have to inflate shipping costs to cover the fees I pay. If someone sends me 100 via PayPal i end up with about 85 after all the deductions are done.
@@12voltvids I suppose if not for youtube yea, there is little to no money in this kind of thing. and you are spot on, this is why all the shops closed. things are so cheaply made now they are not fixable. and the thins that are fixable are pushing 30 to 40 years old. Parts not available, lots of hack repairs... Truly we are living in a disposable society now :)
I tell customers the price up front. It's pretty simple formula. Problem is some people like to grind on price. It's right there on my ad. Sone think they deserve a quanaty discount. There are no discounts. 1 tape or 100 it's the same price. 5 minutes or 2 hours same price. It's a pretty simple formula. He was told the price and he decides that if i only transferred half the tape it would be half price and offered me that. That was the problem.
@@12voltvids what is yours price for 5 6 hours vhs tapes or a link were I can see your pricing . Thanks Dave I been watching your channel for years now
I don't give written estimates. For Conversions its pretty simple. For VHS its 10 per tape up to 2 hours. That's really not that hard to understand. 10 tapes is 100, and it doesn't matter is there is 10 minutes on t he tape or 120. I get people that think some how that if they give me 10 tapes and have me just record 10 minutes from each, that adds up to less than 120 minutes so it should be 10.00 and they try to bargain after the work it done. Like today when a customer is picking up his old radio and thinks I will want his old TV in trade. Nope that's not the way it works.
$60.00 is very reasonable. I have paid $80.00 just for an estimate. Thanks for all of your videos!😊
Nobody will spend money to repair old gear around here. Or very few will, most will just buy new.
I have the model above this. Still in use as one of my TV recorders.
Watching you fight to take the drive out brought back memories. And all I wanted to do was clean the rubbery bit of the disc clamp
I have one too. Haven't used it in awhile.
Was a bit of work.
I'm so glad you did this video, I have one of these and the only thing that annoyed me was the display has never been bright enough
I have a Toshiba DVD recorder and the clock display is very dim but I never took it apart to see why's the clock display is so dim
Easy belt fix, but they sure made you work to get to it.
Good thing the Volt oil change is only every two years. We have two cars, so when full synthetic oil changes went over $100, I bought a set of ramps and do my own oil changes. Every other year on my Volt, and whenever the oil life monitor says to in the Buick.
Sticker shock. That's dealer price to change oil.
3:30 Tape conversions in the UK: For more than 10 hours of VHS or Beta, I charge £9/hour with a minimum charge of £4.50, i.e. half an hour charge for short tapes. Then for less than 9 hours, I charge 50% more (but never such that more hours costs less, I'm fair around the 7-10 hour point). Cheaper £8/hour for 8mm and cheaper again £7/hour for miniDV. A single tape is usually £15 minimum. Well that's the way I try to keep things as simple as possible and so avoid misunderstandings.
But some people just read the bit they want to read, oh it's so much per hour so they can give me a pile of 5 minute tapes and I'll run them for pennies each. Or they think it's going to save them money if I hunt around their tapes looking for just some select fragments they want.
I get 10 per tape for VHS and 8mm. Trying to get more is useless because the Facebook crowd offers it cheaper. I deal with many that offer transfers for 7 per tape. Race to the bottom. Amateurs using a dazzle box.
I get more for betacam, umatic, and betamax but VHS and 8mm so many doing it and half don't understand what it is worth.
Race to the bottom. Big difference in quality between a 49.00 dazzle and my 1500 capture card but people see the cost as a factor.
@@12voltvids dazzle can look okay if you know what youre doing. gv-usb2 is probably a consumer's best bet
@@sparrowslovemeI have never seen a dazle look that good. Or any consumer capture for that matter. Most need a tbc to work properly as they are pretty sensitive to jitter. My commercial gear doesn't need a tbc. It also is unaffected by macrovision or any other copy protection including hdcp.
@@12voltvids that sucks, I get $20 up to 90 minutes, and just try to educate or then ignore anyone who wants it for less. I believe I have a quality workflow, tho no doubt it pales to yours (and it's upkeep).
The other issue with 'professional' oil changes is they use the cheapest discount oil available . With synthetic, it makes a considerable difference. Especially in older cars. DIY and use Castrol or something if you want to get the highest mileage from your engine.
Castrol 0w20 is what they put in.
its been non stop rain in Clacton only about 3 sunny days but mostly rain hear
You can Barley hear the A/C - Sounds real good ...Keep cool Dave Keep cool...
It's pretty quiet.
@@12voltvidsI have a Sony Dat Walkman that works but sometimes when I plug it into ac it gets stuck but does not happen on batteries could it be a bad ac plug ? It’s fine on batteries no issue and evantually on ac it Wil unstick it self after a few mins I’m using a real Sony ac plug
@stpworld
Umm, its kinda bad form to ask for a diagnosis in the Comments.
The majority of techs and engineers, the ones that know what they're talking about, will not answer a question like yours unless there is some previous arrangements. Its one of those "unwritten rules".
One of the ppl in the Comments may answer your question.
@@snakezdewiggle6084 If I didnt ask you then be quiet...
Oh poor thing, you'll get over your boundary issues, eventually.
I've got the same model. The user interface is identical to Pioneer except it doesn't do DVD-RAM.
I just love your vids and commentary :). I have a Teac single cd player with door that won’t open. Cd tray assembly seems fine mechanically, no missing teeth gears, belt is good. When open button is pushed the Sanyo SF-P101N laser lens mechanism only drops down halfway and thus wont allow door to open. When I try to engage by hand it will drop down all the way. Would u think it’s a board problem or possibly still mechanical? The tray transport is a Sony cdm kills-2130ccm. Thx Dave for all you provide 😊
I have no idea
Check for a microswitch or leaf switch in the tray mechanism, and give it a good clean with contact cleaner or iso.
@@peterlarkin762 thank you! there are two I think, was wondering if they are in wrong positions. When I got the unit it wouldn’t open. Has a Burr Brown dac so would like to keep it out of the trash.
Just by curiosity was the hard drive ok in that unit? as you said that some units have a catch 22 scenario where the drive would be erased if serviced? Thats quite alarming knowing that they can do that😳.
Yes it's fine. Watch him showing off his vintage coin collection on it. Hdd is fine.
I use my DVD recorders all the time. Not as much as I used to but they still get used. Have 10 tapes in that I will be making 2 copies of one on USB and the other on DVD this week. I scored over 500 blank DVDs for 20 bucks about 6 months ago and am slowly working my way through them. That's why i burned a disk in this to verrify it's working properly.
The Pioneer units require a specific service disc and special service remote to reinitialize the unit if you were to ever simply disconnect and reconnect the DVD drive.
Yesterday I I had to fix a Sony boom box that wouldn't read a CD. The laser would not go back to the home position. I then unhooked the sled motor and with bench supply I ran the motor in both directions. After that I put the boom box back together and it played a CD without skipping.
I wonder how much the hdd is used? Just a buffer, or can it hold a lot for later? This device is new to me
It can hold a ton. Depending on the selected record quality. Will store probably 100 hours of video on the hard drive.
I didn't check how full it was. I picked up the same unit for 2.00 a number of years ago. Missing remote. Bought an original remote for about 90.00 only to find the hard drive was completely full of porn. Took me awhile to delete it all one title at a time.
@@12voltvids that's kinda cool and makes me think of buying one and swap the HD.. I do old vhs digitize etc here too.. thinkIng.. lookin ebay.. seems these weren't sold in the states.. Canada n UK is all I'm finding
Cant swap drives on them thw drive serial numberof the drive has to match the firmware of the chip plof the unit prbthe unit fails to boot up@@dobroplayer7
Don't let people like that ruin your mood. Just note him down to never ever do businesses with him ever again. Wish him good luck to find another person who digitizes tapes. I'm commissioning artists for over 10 years and you pay what they ask you or you pay a little more. Never argue about the price with weird rules that you make up yourself.
He is done. All his tapes are converted now.
Do you have a video of replacing the hand strap on a Sony handycam 460x Hi8? If not are you interested in doing something like this for me?
I don't have a video
Interested in replacing mine?
Hello. I have a sony slv-x30ps vhs player. I have been using it actively for 5 months. When I first bought it, the capacitors on the power stage were leaking. I replaced all of them, then after using it for 1 month, the problem started again. This happened 5 times, I always do it, 1 month passes and it breaks again, I wonder if it is normal. The problem is that the screen does not appear when connected to power, but the head and motors are constantly rotating.
Not normal.
👍👍👍
Speaking of oil changes my buddy's got a 67 Chevelle hot rod with a 555 big block it takes special oil and if you don't use the special oil the warranties void on the engine it's $40 a quart it takes 12 quarts that's crazy but what are you going to do he's an old timer like me thinking about selling it it's really cool but it cost a lot to keep going have a great day keeps me inspired I keep fixing stuff
Much of that is also snake oil.
I know what's wrong with it. It doesn't work. Ha ha! Great video!
Seriously, I stopped using a Blu Ray player because the drawer wouldn't open at times. I don't think it's a belt. It was like something was jamming. Well, I already bought a new one after that started acting up. So I didn't really try to find out the problem.
6:16 If you own a BMW and decide to take it in to the stealers it will cost you north of £350 ($600 Canadian) for a fluid change (brake and oil) and those are 2015 prices - that's a Stage 1 service; a Stage 2 service would be more like £500. I started going to the independents when I decided that annual warranty charges were uneconomical and I had the freedom to choose who serviced my car.
Well that's the first mistake, buying a BMW. Did you not know the letters stand for "Bring Money Weekly"
The oil was changed at an independent oil change shop. They are just as bad as the stealership these days.
@@12voltvids To be fair it (a Z4) has been reliable, which is more than can be said for its predecessor (BMW Mini Cooper - first gen) fun to drive, but boy was it a money pit. I wrote the Mini of whilst coming into a roundabout too hot in wet weather, best thing that ever happened to my wallet.
I had an MB many years ago and it was the same. Money pit.
We called them "money burner"
Looks like the same model as mine
Engine oil should actually be replaced every 12 months, espesially if you live in climate where temperature variance can be 40C or more. like here from -25 to +25. Water tends to get in the oil and if the engine never gets much use = never gets in to operating temperature in winter time = bad. Yes it is expensive, but not as expensive as a new engine
In EU FIAT Professional Diesel vans (there no gas option here) are oil serviced every 48K Km or two years. And the companies using those vans follow their intervals and one of the reasons they follow those intervals is because the engines are going to last even to 400K Kilometers without major breakdown. It's part of the reasons FIAT was asking premium for their model with their Diesel engines.
There might be exceptions like taxis with engine running pretty much 10 hours straight or repeated start-stops without the engine ever getting warm but very few should need servicing sooner with the modern all synthetic crud they put in. Actually I believe it's pretty good stuff... you just don't buy it from FIAT at 35 Eur a liter.
On the volt the engine seldom runs. It can be 6 weeks between starts (it forces a start and warm up every 6 weeks if now used.) The computer keeps track of how many hours of run time plus how many days it has been in. % indicator ticks down regardless if used or not. I change when it gets to 5% life.
So what fixed the issue.? Was it just the belt and a clean / lube.?
AC seems to be working ✅ what does a column of hot air weigh. Remembering hot air holds moisture.
I thoughy you guys were into the whole HVAC thing.?
Easy peasy chicken dinner.😆
The belt was weak. I don't know if it was the clamp was not clamping fully or if it was all the dust bunnies in there. I cleaned it up and changed the belt and it worked. Yes I know the hot air will be very humid that's going up into the attic because the evaporator pulls moisture out of the air dumps it into a tank in the back where does then pumped up and sprayed onto the condenser which is the hot side the water which is cold because it comes off the evaporator then vaporizes and is sent up the exhaust pipe into the Attic which then vents to the outside via this soffit. There's no insulation in this part of the attic over the garage so any moisture that gets up there will just go out of the soffit
People are actually paying $$$ to get DVD recorders fixed?
Sure are. Got about 1/3 what it cost to get an oil change. Pretty sad for repairs.
I mean, at the end of the day it's fixable but man oh man, makes you wonder if it is worth all the hassle to take it apart and do that kind of micro surgery. Sometimes "well built" and "complexly built" step on each other. Sony does this a lot. Higher quality? Sometimes yes. now the repair price point thing happens. will the customer be willing to eat the cost of your labor to have it fixed? I suppose it depends on the person.
I made 60 on this. not much considering it cost me $160 to have the oil changed on my car and it took them all of 10 minutes but the reality is that's what people are willing to pay to have their electronic serviced. there's a reason why all the shops closed their doors it's because there's not enough money in fixing this crap to run a business, and the only reason I do it is because it gives me content for my CZcams channel that's where I'll make the money. I've gone for quantity on my channel because each video makes me a little bit of money every month when you've got 2500 plus videos. Old content according to metrics accounts for about 45% of views. Some videos have done really well. Even after all the taxes get deducted I made almost as much from the ad revenue than i did when I was fixing TV's and vcrs full time. Now if only people would not block the ads i could make even more and Uncle Sam would too because CZcams homes back over 30% for taxes. For that matter so does PayPal. So I have to inflate shipping costs to cover the fees I pay. If someone sends me 100 via PayPal i end up with about 85 after all the deductions are done.
@@12voltvids I suppose if not for youtube yea, there is little to no money in this kind of thing. and you are spot on, this is why all the shops closed. things are so cheaply made now they are not fixable. and the thins that are fixable are pushing 30 to 40 years old. Parts not available, lots of hack repairs... Truly we are living in a disposable society now :)
Most customers are asses like that, think they always can flip it and change the conditions in their advance.
I find that certain cultures are worse than others. I will leave it at that.
You give customers written estimates why do always complain about customers. I was considering to have you do some conversions. I'll pass
I tell customers the price up front. It's pretty simple formula. Problem is some people like to grind on price. It's right there on my ad. Sone think they deserve a quanaty discount. There are no discounts. 1 tape or 100 it's the same price. 5 minutes or 2 hours same price. It's a pretty simple formula.
He was told the price and he decides that if i only transferred half the tape it would be half price and offered me that. That was the problem.
@@12voltvids what is yours price for 5 6 hours vhs tapes or a link were I can see your pricing . Thanks Dave I been watching your channel for years now
O no your not going to have him do your conversions boy I hope he can pay his mortgage 😏
What's a mortgage? I have no idea what that is because i don't have one.
I don't give written estimates. For Conversions its pretty simple. For VHS its 10 per tape up to 2 hours. That's really not that hard to understand. 10 tapes is 100, and it doesn't matter is there is 10 minutes on t he tape or 120. I get people that think some how that if they give me 10 tapes and have me just record 10 minutes from each, that adds up to less than 120 minutes so it should be 10.00 and they try to bargain after the work it done. Like today when a customer is picking up his old radio and thinks I will want his old TV in trade. Nope that's not the way it works.