Thanks for all your knowledge! I always appreciate the great work you do. Just a little humorous (hopefully) note: many times that you described capacitors as leaky, the water droplet SFX on your computer answered you in near perfect timing. Great repair as always!
I thought I remember seeing the name Mitsumi so I googled it and they still exist in Japan and still make power supplies as we as other components. What did surprise me was that Sony were still making VCRs in Japan at that time. Your Pronunciation is perfect. Not that it really matters.
Thanks for another great video! I hope you realize how your repair videos are helping to preserve this technology. Just this week, I repaired my Betamax SL-HF2000 that was eating tapes on eject by following the steps in one of your videos. Thanks! In this video, how do you determine the test points for alignment without a service manual?
Hi, this video helped a lot thanks for posting, my grandad sony betamax sl-T20 works now but still having issue in pic and audio playback which works only when fast forward 😔
I have an HDMI to RCA converter to record stuff on my VCR from streams etc...but I guess I am a vanishingly small minority. In fact, my ROKU was running picture through this converter to my VCR all the time that caused it to die(Running for too many hours). I fixed it and it was working fine, but now it has picture issues 6 months later. So, I guess from watching this, it is more bad caps at the power supply. Heads are clean. Thanks for posting this.
The thing with VCRs that everyone forgets us the heads wear. They ate good for only about 1000 hours before they start to degrade the picture. If you are only playing tapes they will be ok for a little longer as when they start to wear self recordings are the first to go bad. You can't get new heads anymore. So why use a VCR for anything but getting your material off tape and onto DVD or some other digital format. I can see in a few years all the front VCR users all worried and upset that they can no longer okay their tapes. Keep your machine for playing legacy content but don't run up hours putting stuff on tape just for the sake of it.
I really love your videos and how your able to diagnose and pin point a problem in a circuit. i do have a question have you ever work on a Samsung One Connect mini that cause a constant reboot every 9 seconds till you disconnect it from the TV which operates normally after the disconnect with no problems.
Those days capacitors were failed without having any visual signs and the ESR meters were totally unknown.You had to invest money in a LCR meter with dissipation factor function that could check the capacitor in circuit.Capacitors problems were not an easy case as nowadays because even an 1uf capacitor could malfunction or cease the entire set or cause transistor blowns repeately.
@@12voltvids I've been binge watching your videos, as an ex repair guy myself I've been fascinated. I'm still in it as a hobby, but it doesn't pay the rent anymore lol. Keep up thy great work!
I have a SLV-x30, which has a faulty power supply. I changed most of the components (including caps and transistors, excluding transformers). I still can't get it to work. As I saw this video I will go back and give it another look. Thanks.
That opening is awesome! 27:31 there is a project to capture and digitize the tape directly from the RF. It is related to the domesday86 project for LaserDisc. The software is still experimental for vhs-decode but seems promising. The LaserDisc version results are superb. All the software and hardware designs are open source.
Can you link me to that? I had a similar idea in conserving VHS and other tapes directly from the video tape head RF in digital form. It features 4 bandwidth steps between 12 MByte per second to 32 MByte per second. The file format is uncompressed. This way humanity would be able to reconstruct old tapes with new technology and prevent the signals from degrading further. You can find my specification papers on Github under the name Project-Diana.
@@swilwerth github.com/KyodaiKen/Project-Diana Due to time constraints I didn't have time to develop an actual wrapper for it. I also lack hardware and tapes...
I just repaired an R1000 that had a very similar Mitsumi PSU. Almost all the Rubycons spilled their guts. This looks to be a similar PSU but slightly revised. Had to clean alot of the shmoo off the board and heatsinks too :(
I do not know if I am doing it correctly. How do you quickly test a TO92 BJT in circuit to make sure that it is not failed? I had a radio that I was working for a client and it had a good 30 of them in circuit. The radio blew up due to a power surge. I got it working by replacing the power transformer. However, then it had no audio. So, I,, thinking that it had shorts in it because of my DMM check, replaced the audio power amplifier chip. That is all I did. I soldered it back into place nicely, but then the unit was dead. I gave up on it.
TO92 is an interesting transistor. It will either be EBC basing or ECB. American transistors are generally EBC and Japanese ECB. You need to disconnect generally 2 of the leads to check it, as the other components in the circuit will affect readings.
Lemme guess: the power supply had a ton of those Elna LongLife capacitors. (moments later) Oh, nope! Those are Nippon Chemi-con. Of course, such failure may have to be expected considering the age and the application; power supply caps tend to be the most stressed considering their operating conditions, eh? Obviously, you can tell just by the dark discoloration of the solder joints and copper prints on parts of the board that were exposed to electrolyte. And, oh, this is one of Sony's VCRs that used a Shintom transport rather than their own. They're fairly solid and not very difficult to get it back up and running.
It was to allow faster start but the real reason they unloaded the tape in early machines was to reduce stress on the tape. Then they changed the layout to reduce the angles the tape went around to allow FF and rew tape loaded.
I can't get D100 on Amazon Germany, but D100S-2 in a little spray bottle (2 oz). Is that also usable like your D100? Costs 30 EUR by the way, which is around 47 CAD...
Hi I have asked a question before as well but you didn’t respond by your great help ( really appreciate it) I was able to replace the video head drum on Panasonic but the picture has lots of tracking all over the screen and no colors I’m wondering if it could be wrong connection (opposite way should work)?? I will really appreciate your response thanks
Dave, when Sony finally succumbed to making VHS decks over from Beta, who did the OEM?, did they buy in chassis from Matsushita?? I remember back in the day Philips/Grundig vcr models hastily putting third party VHS drives into V2000 decks in the early models of their defunct euro format, so was just pondering if Sony did the same.....keep them great vids coming!
They all have a mode switch of some kind. A few just put some regular push switches on the board and had cams on the control arm that would activate the switches as it slid back and forth, and some of the very old JVC and Zenith models used an optical encoder that read holes drilled in the cam gear.
If you look in a UK dictionary, it will say the pronunciation is "soLder". If you look in an American dictionary, it will say the pronunciation is "sodder". Both are correct. If I was to move to the UK from the US; then I would pronounce it "soLder" - and not until then. But I like my beer - cold; not warm. lol
I'm not American, i am Canadian and I pronounce words the correct way. I also spell colour with a "u" and it is a roof over my head not a ruff. And the letter Z is pronounced "zed" not "zee"
@@12voltvids Correct for Queen's English - yes.. American dictionary pronounces it officially as "saw'-der". Really? So you say 'zedbra' for 'zebra'? My, that is just awful. Perhaps you should get English lessons in the US? Pull the other one . . .
@@MrRadioGypsy Of course it is pronounced zebra. The sound for z is accebted by the following letter. Zulu, zebra, zack ect. But when the letter is spoken as a single letter it is pronounced zed, not zee.
@@icpizzaboy Except at least one thing, and it became unavailable at least 10 yaers ago: the playback/ff-fw clutch under the pendulum gear. It wears out relatively soon, and the VCR will not be able to FF and rewind. Random early failures (not wear-related, like broken actuator arms) were also quite common on these clutches. Oh, and this year I bought a nearly NOS condition Samsung SV-635X with the transport they sold for Sony, and 3 windings out of 6 were open in the stationary part of the rotary transformer. The glue became corrosive, and eaten away the enamel wires. The same issue as Dave shown with a Panasonic, except, that Panasonic was 20 years older than my Samsung.
That was one nasty power supply. I wondered why you left the business? Precognition of the impending wind down of the VCR industry or something else. It would be very interesting to hear about how you entered the biz and memorable things you learned the hard way in the beginning. Some people pass on their knowledge by writing books, or mentoring young candidates. For such a disappearing repair industry I wonder what your thoughts are about the biz. For all the prophecies of VHS tape disintegration.. they are still being converted. And now even DVD recorders are gone and people are rediscovering.. or making the same old mistakes of trying to do conversions and capture with PCs.. before seeking professional help as they probably should. Video transfer doesn't seem to be getting easier, but even more dependent on real experience which doesn't serve the amateur as well as the past.
I left the business in 2003 because I could see the writing on the wall, and didn't want to be the last guy standing. I actually started my planning to get out a few years before, as I was watching the industry transform into a throw away industry, and made the decision right around Christmas 2002 that the time was right. Time to get out before I became too old to train in another industry. I had never intended to get into the business. My formal college education was in video production. My original goal was photo journalism, to be one of the guys running around with a television camera gathering news stories. That is what I went to school for. Camera work, and video editing. I did work at a TV station for a couple of years, an intern for the first 2 and then on staff, master control for a community station. There was very little opportunity to get on full time though. I saw an ad for Sony, looking for a QA technician. I had worked for a few years at a small TV shop when I was in high school and learned the basics, plus I had been building and tinkering with electronics since I was about 8, so I had the basics down. Sony didn't hire me as the QA technician, but they did hire me as a junior video tech, and put me through the Special High Intensity Training course (that spells shit BTW) to learn how betamax worked. After the course I was thrown to the wolves and had to start fixing broken beta recorders. I did that for about a year, and then Sony wanted to move me to the permanent location for me, in Winnipeg. I said thanks but no thanks, as I wasn't going to relocate for a job that paid 9.65 an hour. I left Sony and landed at a self servicing dealer. That is where the fun began. Not only did I work on VCR, but TV and stereo gear too, and the companies we did warranty work for, Sony, RCA, Panasonic, Toshiba, JVC and Nakamichi started sending me to their training workshops where we studied all the new technology that was coming online. Multi day courses with lots of theory and hands on. I had to write exams on everything, and ended up writing the CEASA red seal certification in about 1986. So I basically fell into the repair business because it paid the bills and allowed me to start my video production business which did fairly well in the 80 and 90s, right into the early 2000s I did high end multi camera weddings, and live performances (hired by the performers), and did a number of corporate videos. Product training and sales videos. Real estate sales videos, and even did some stringer news work for CBC and Global TV. To tell you the truth I never really enjoyed the repair business. I did it because I was good at it, and I made allot of money back in the 80's. What I really enjoyed was running around with a camera on my shoulder shooting and editing videos. When I left the business in 2003 I promised myself that I would not repair equipment. I managed to stay away for a number of years. It was Sept 2 2013 that I took on a satellite receiver to fix for an old friend. He wanted me to fix it at his house and I told him that would film it and put up on youtube so he could watch his old satellite receiver being repaired. That video is this one: ua-cam.com/video/Z3XIDwnNZhI/v-deo.html Interestingly I left the TV shop in August 2003, and I fixed my first power supply after than in Sept 2013. I stayed away 10 years. This was the first video that I monetized. I hadn't even considered doing the youtube videos at this point, and the few videos I had up prior to this were about the car I loved, my 2012 chevy volt (hence the name 12VOLTvids) The first handful of videos I published were on this fantastic car. Incidentally I still have that car, it has over 100,000 miles on it, and has not had a wrench touch it yet. A few months after publishing the power supply video I was notified by youtube that I was eligible to become a monetized content creator, so I started looking through my storage unit for old electronics to fix, and started putting them up. I actually enjoy fixing old stuff more now, than I did when I was in the business, and it lets me make videos and share my knowledge and experience, and make some money while I am at it.
@@12voltvids Very interesting story.. was the Volt an early EV like a Leaf? The formal training in VCR repair really shows in your videos.. it looks like you took to it like a duck to water. Strange that you wanted to stay away from it for so long and waded back into it for a friend. It appears you have a natural talent as well as a clever attitude about the subject. I wonder how you never wound up in Television and Movie production there since I thought Lions Gate Studios is around there and there were many special effects shops producing material for many TV and Cable series.
@@joey_after_midnight The volt is a plug in extended range EV. I have 2. Old one goes about 35 miles on battery before switching to gas. New one goes 55 miles on the battery before switching. I went through the tv production course just before Hollywood north took off. A friend of mine 5 years younger got into the the film industry. I was already in the repair business by then and was running my own video for hire company.
@@12voltvids Ahh.. I see. I wondered about those hybrids. Kind of sounds like an inkjet printer situation. Every so often you need to make sure to run the gas engine to make sure nothing drys out or gums up over time. Or vice versa, make sure the battery has a good charge for when you need it. It sounds range flexible though. Running your own business must have been more profitable than working for someone else. I can understand that.
@@joey_after_midnight Maintainence mode runs the engine every 8 weeks if it doesn't use any gas for 8 weeks. It will also force all the gas to be used up after a year. No there wasn't that much money money in video production. If there had been i wouldn't have been working in the repair shop. My costs were so high i made very little in the end. One of my cameras was 20 grand. I was always looking for that big break but it never happened. So much competition all after the same customers. I didn't do it full time. Wasn't willing to take that risk. Repair shop paid well, the video work paid me an extra couple grand a month so i could buy toys.
here in the US we say "soder" without the L, which is how google says it too "/ˈsädər/". just like the number 0, we say "zero" but a lot of people say "zed"
@@12voltvids I bought a cheap ESR meter. For ESR values i googled internet their are so many list but values varies in different list. How is it possible.
@@NunYa953 i'm not sure, but i have a bunch of vcr's etc and seems everytime i pull one apart it needs belts. i'm in alabama, maybe we can do some trading..? thanks
Hey there. My dad is a born & bred Canadian (Montreal, Quebec)....So since that’s the case do I get a pass for saying solder bot the American way & the Canadian way?! 🤣😂🤘🏻
15:19 ahahha it's you hearing! or you got a fancy tongue that can make ol sound.... it's sodder....you're soddering the components to the board...with the soddering iron. Fancy pants all about "saol-der" ....all right back to "SaOLderINg" lol they're words, intended to convey meaning of stuff and things of sorts.......not a pissing match of, not even education, but sound making lol My point is who cares? especially someone in the field of logic. By the way awesome vid as always, from my perspective you're a wizard at this.
Not really. My parents had one without HiFi Stereo from the early 90s. And that one didn't wanna break... So I missed HiFi Stereo back then on VHS... As he said this unit from around 2000.
All these faulty Electronics?? How do they make very reliable Electronis for space and such like? Random question? I know, but i find it bewildering? That they make consumer electronics to fail!
Consumer extronics are built for a specific price. Space craft can not fail for it's designed life or longer. There is a reason a satellite cost 20 million to build. That satellite is nothing more than a radio receiver and transmitter. The reason that my old betamax units still run is because they were 2000.00 machines. Consumers driven by Walmart's demand for the lowest cost required companies to cut corners and use lower cost parts. Lower cost parts are not built as robust and generally don't last as long.
Leading North has taken the intro from "":Play wioth fire get burnt" In his highly stupidly made latest not my video at all project. Tori amos should also file a copyright strike for the illegal use of her muisic.
@@12voltvids better than the ones with the blue loading cogs.. but that's about it.. These arrived about the time I got out of tv repair.. went into computers instead.. and boy.. Mitsumi and bad caps.. damn floppy drives
Actually, you being from Canada, should not pronounce the l in solder. Solder is soudure in French Canadian. So, most Americans got the pronunciation from Canada!
@@12voltvids Sorry, I wasn't trying to offend, just point out the error that Americans make in using the French/Canadian word for solder. I know you are not French/Canadian but you do live in one of their cities.
@@lstein3372 really? Vancouver is a French Canadian city? News to me. Quebec yes, but out west there are not that many Francophones and they are concentrated in mallardville.
Thanks for all your knowledge! I always appreciate the great work you do. Just a little humorous (hopefully) note: many times that you described capacitors as leaky, the water droplet SFX on your computer answered you in near perfect timing. Great repair as always!
Appreciate all your videos. Thank you and hope there's many more to come, from the UK
I thought I remember seeing the name Mitsumi so I googled it and they still exist in Japan and still make power supplies as we as other components.
What did surprise me was that Sony were still making VCRs in Japan at that time.
Your Pronunciation is perfect. Not that it really matters.
Wow.. memories!...I used to love repairing the Panasonic G desks...all them plastic gears !
yeaaaahh lots of plastic gears allright.
love to see a TGIF long format style vid. 1:00 style with skills tips and tricks. super vid on Friday.
Thanks for another great video! I hope you realize how your repair videos are helping to preserve this technology. Just this week, I repaired my Betamax SL-HF2000 that was eating tapes on eject by following the steps in one of your videos. Thanks!
In this video, how do you determine the test points for alignment without a service manual?
Hi, this video helped a lot thanks for posting, my grandad sony betamax sl-T20 works now but still having issue in pic and audio playback which works only when fast forward 😔
I have an HDMI to RCA converter to record stuff on my VCR from streams etc...but I guess I am a vanishingly small minority. In fact, my ROKU was running picture through this converter to my VCR all the time that caused it to die(Running for too many hours). I fixed it and it was working fine, but now it has picture issues 6 months later. So, I guess from watching this, it is more bad caps at the power supply. Heads are clean. Thanks for posting this.
The thing with VCRs that everyone forgets us the heads wear. They ate good for only about 1000 hours before they start to degrade the picture. If you are only playing tapes they will be ok for a little longer as when they start to wear self recordings are the first to go bad. You can't get new heads anymore. So why use a VCR for anything but getting your material off tape and onto DVD or some other digital format. I can see in a few years all the front VCR users all worried and upset that they can no longer okay their tapes. Keep your machine for playing legacy content but don't run up hours putting stuff on tape just for the sake of it.
I really love your videos and how your able to diagnose and pin point a problem in a circuit. i do have a question have you ever work on a Samsung One Connect mini that cause a constant reboot every 9 seconds till you disconnect it from the TV which operates normally after the disconnect with no problems.
Ooo yeah, the days of "bad fish smell" it's a give away of bad caps. Made a lot of money rebuilding SMPS.
Those days capacitors were failed without having any visual signs and the ESR meters were totally unknown.You had to invest money in a LCR meter with dissipation factor function that could check the capacitor in circuit.Capacitors problems were not an easy case as nowadays because even an 1uf capacitor could malfunction or cease the entire set or cause transistor blowns repeately.
OMG that was funny "SOLLLLDER" !!!! Love it.... but yeah I use "sodder" ;-) Love your channel!!!!!
"Sometimes I don't speak right
But did I know what I was talking about?"
Extra points for that quote.
Great machine i seen this vcr
Thanks for posting. You are a Great help. I enjoy watching you, even if you say soder, and not proper (too me)solder.
Well done on the pronounciation of solder from an actual Brit! Great video!
Well, I'm from the same rock, or at least my grandfather was.
@@12voltvids I've been binge watching your videos, as an ex repair guy myself I've been fascinated. I'm still in it as a hobby, but it doesn't pay the rent anymore lol. Keep up thy great work!
@@davidelliott8016
Yup no money in repairs now.
I have a SLV-x30, which has a faulty power supply. I changed most of the components (including caps and transistors, excluding transformers). I still can't get it to work. As I saw this video I will go back and give it another look. Thanks.
congratulations for the excellent work, I have a slv 425 that I care a lot about do you think it is possible to recover the ac board?
That opening is awesome!
27:31 there is a project to capture and digitize the tape directly from the RF.
It is related to the domesday86 project for LaserDisc.
The software is still experimental for vhs-decode but seems promising.
The LaserDisc version results are superb.
All the software and hardware designs are open source.
Can you link me to that? I had a similar idea in conserving VHS and other tapes directly from the video tape head RF in digital form. It features 4 bandwidth steps between 12 MByte per second to 32 MByte per second. The file format is uncompressed. This way humanity would be able to reconstruct old tapes with new technology and prevent the signals from degrading further. You can find my specification papers on Github under the name Project-Diana.
@UC_etCEzK0AffeY7FPqtRqmA Thanks! They might be interested in my simple and relatively compact file format.
@@kyoudaiken can you give me a link to the github you made?
Interesting.
@@swilwerth github.com/KyodaiKen/Project-Diana
Due to time constraints I didn't have time to develop an actual wrapper for it. I also lack hardware and tapes...
hey,
just gor through watching one of your repair videos and was wondering if you ever serviced a harman kardon bds 577 blur ray receiver?
No doesn't ring any bells.
I just repaired an R1000 that had a very similar Mitsumi PSU. Almost all the Rubycons spilled their guts. This looks to be a similar PSU but slightly revised. Had to clean alot of the shmoo off the board and heatsinks too :(
I do not know if I am doing it correctly. How do you quickly test a TO92 BJT in circuit to make sure that it is not failed? I had a radio that I was working for a client and it had a good 30 of them in circuit. The radio blew up due to a power surge. I got it working by replacing the power transformer. However, then it had no audio. So, I,, thinking that it had shorts in it because of my DMM check, replaced the audio power amplifier chip. That is all I did. I soldered it back into place nicely, but then the unit was dead. I gave up on it.
TO92 is an interesting transistor. It will either be EBC basing or ECB. American transistors are generally EBC and Japanese ECB.
You need to disconnect generally 2 of the leads to check it, as the other components in the circuit will affect readings.
Lemme guess: the power supply had a ton of those Elna LongLife capacitors.
(moments later)
Oh, nope! Those are Nippon Chemi-con. Of course, such failure may have to be expected considering the age and the application; power supply caps tend to be the most stressed considering their operating conditions, eh? Obviously, you can tell just by the dark discoloration of the solder joints and copper prints on parts of the board that were exposed to electrolyte.
And, oh, this is one of Sony's VCRs that used a Shintom transport rather than their own. They're fairly solid and not very difficult to get it back up and running.
Nice new intro, reminds me photonicinduction
Speaking of photon, haven't seen anything from him since his trip to India
Akio Morita rolled in his grave when he saw the PSU design of this.
Thanks for the videos, I always thought that with the later VCR's when they stay loaded it was to do with quickstart, correct me if I'm wrong
It was to allow faster start but the real reason they unloaded the tape in early machines was to reduce stress on the tape. Then they changed the layout to reduce the angles the tape went around to allow FF and rew tape loaded.
I can't get D100 on Amazon Germany, but D100S-2 in a little spray bottle (2 oz). Is that also usable like your D100? Costs 30 EUR by the way, which is around 47 CAD...
There are European alternatives.. Can't think offhand of the specific German brand.. Jan Beta uses it.. In UK we use Servisol.. same thing
What video is that PSU explosion on the VCR in the intro from? (0:03)
It doesn't explode in the repair video. That was actually a new cap that failed right out of the gate
good video thank you
Hi I have asked a question before as well but you didn’t respond by your great help ( really appreciate it) I was able to replace the video head drum on Panasonic but the picture has lots of tracking all over the screen and no colors I’m wondering if it could be wrong connection (opposite way should work)?? I will really appreciate your response thanks
If you put the upper drum on backwards it. Will result in a poor picture and no color.
@@12voltvids really appreciate your help such a true genius you are stay blessed
Dave, when Sony finally succumbed to making VHS decks over from Beta, who did the OEM?, did they buy in chassis from Matsushita?? I remember back in the day Philips/Grundig vcr models hastily putting third party VHS drives into V2000 decks in the early models of their defunct euro format, so was just pondering if Sony did the same.....keep them great vids coming!
Sony made their own and they made they right along with the beta decks that continued for years.
Do all VCRs have a mode switch? I opened up a client's VCR and could not find it.
They all have a mode switch of some kind. A few just put some regular push switches on the board and had cams on the control arm that would activate the switches as it slid back and forth, and some of the very old JVC and Zenith models used an optical encoder that read holes drilled in the cam gear.
The new intro is very ElectroBoom ahahah
Power supply is made by Mitsumi...
Yep. Sony had PSUs made by them for many of their VCRs. They also had PSUs made for them by Shindengen, too.
2 thumbs down? They've gotta be left handed and dont appreciate your solderin skills,using your Righty?....lol
The guy that taught me how to solder was from the UK, and he made sure that I pronounced it correctly.
If you look in a UK dictionary, it will say the pronunciation is "soLder". If you look in an American dictionary, it will say the pronunciation is "sodder". Both are correct. If I was to move to the UK from the US; then I would pronounce it "soLder" - and not until then. But I like my beer - cold; not warm. lol
I'm not American, i am Canadian and I pronounce words the correct way. I also spell colour with a "u" and it is a roof over my head not a ruff. And the letter Z is pronounced "zed" not "zee"
@@12voltvids Correct for Queen's English - yes.. American dictionary pronounces it officially as "saw'-der".
Really? So you say 'zedbra' for 'zebra'? My, that is just awful. Perhaps you should get English lessons in the US?
Pull the other one . . .
@@MrRadioGypsy
Of course it is pronounced zebra. The sound for z is accebted by the following letter. Zulu, zebra, zack ect. But when the letter is spoken as a single letter it is pronounced zed, not zee.
Another Sony! 👍
the Slv-701hf was made in 1993 i just looked at a manual for one
Yeah- I just found it myself- the date shows 93. I thought this looked to well put together for 2003
@@wx4newengland if made in 2003 the video drum motor would have been on top all vhs decks went to that by 2003
@@icpizzaboy Yep, and most (if not all) Sony VCRs in 2003 were made by Samsung.
@@mrnmrn1 I do have to admit the Samsung transports are pretty reliable from that era and easy to work on for the most part
@@icpizzaboy Except at least one thing, and it became unavailable at least 10 yaers ago: the playback/ff-fw clutch under the pendulum gear. It wears out relatively soon, and the VCR will not be able to FF and rewind. Random early failures (not wear-related, like broken actuator arms) were also quite common on these clutches.
Oh, and this year I bought a nearly NOS condition Samsung SV-635X with the transport they sold for Sony, and 3 windings out of 6 were open in the stationary part of the rotary transformer. The glue became corrosive, and eaten away the enamel wires. The same issue as Dave shown with a Panasonic, except, that Panasonic was 20 years older than my Samsung.
That was one nasty power supply. I wondered why you left the business? Precognition of the impending wind down of the VCR industry or something else. It would be very interesting to hear about how you entered the biz and memorable things you learned the hard way in the beginning. Some people pass on their knowledge by writing books, or mentoring young candidates. For such a disappearing repair industry I wonder what your thoughts are about the biz. For all the prophecies of VHS tape disintegration.. they are still being converted. And now even DVD recorders are gone and people are rediscovering.. or making the same old mistakes of trying to do conversions and capture with PCs.. before seeking professional help as they probably should. Video transfer doesn't seem to be getting easier, but even more dependent on real experience which doesn't serve the amateur as well as the past.
I left the business in 2003 because I could see the writing on the wall, and didn't want to be the last guy standing. I actually started my planning to get out a few years before, as I was watching the industry transform into a throw away industry, and made the decision right around Christmas 2002 that the time was right. Time to get out before I became too old to train in another industry.
I had never intended to get into the business. My formal college education was in video production. My original goal was photo journalism, to be one of the guys running around with a television camera gathering news stories. That is what I went to school for. Camera work, and video editing. I did work at a TV station for a couple of years, an intern for the first 2 and then on staff, master control for a community station. There was very little opportunity to get on full time though. I saw an ad for Sony, looking for a QA technician. I had worked for a few years at a small TV shop when I was in high school and learned the basics, plus I had been building and tinkering with electronics since I was about 8, so I had the basics down. Sony didn't hire me as the QA technician, but they did hire me as a junior video tech, and put me through the Special High Intensity Training course (that spells shit BTW) to learn how betamax worked. After the course I was thrown to the wolves and had to start fixing broken beta recorders. I did that for about a year, and then Sony wanted to move me to the permanent location for me, in Winnipeg.
I said thanks but no thanks, as I wasn't going to relocate for a job that paid 9.65 an hour. I left Sony and landed at a self servicing dealer. That is where the fun began. Not only did I work on VCR, but TV and stereo gear too, and the companies we did warranty work for, Sony, RCA, Panasonic, Toshiba, JVC and Nakamichi started sending me to their training workshops where we studied all the new technology that was coming online. Multi day courses with lots of theory and hands on.
I had to write exams on everything, and ended up writing the CEASA red seal certification in about 1986. So I basically fell into the repair business because it paid the bills and allowed me to start my video production business which did fairly well in the 80 and 90s, right into the early 2000s
I did high end multi camera weddings, and live performances (hired by the performers), and did a number of corporate videos. Product training and sales videos. Real estate sales videos, and even did some stringer news work for CBC and Global TV. To tell you the truth I never really enjoyed the repair business. I did it because I was good at it, and I made allot of money back in the 80's.
What I really enjoyed was running around with a camera on my shoulder shooting and editing videos. When I left the business in 2003 I promised myself that I would not repair equipment. I managed to stay away for a number of years. It was Sept 2 2013 that I took on a satellite receiver to fix for an old friend. He wanted me to fix it at his house and I told him that would film it and put up on youtube so he could watch his old satellite receiver being repaired. That video is this one:
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Interestingly I left the TV shop in August 2003, and I fixed my first power supply after than in Sept 2013. I stayed away 10 years. This was the first video that I monetized. I hadn't even considered doing the youtube videos at this point, and the few videos I had up prior to this were about the car I loved, my 2012 chevy volt (hence the name 12VOLTvids) The first handful of videos I published were on this fantastic car. Incidentally I still have that car, it has over 100,000 miles on it, and has not had a wrench touch it yet. A few months after publishing the power supply video I was notified
by youtube that I was eligible to become a monetized content creator, so I started looking through my storage unit for old electronics to fix, and started putting them up.
I actually enjoy fixing old stuff more now, than I did when I was in the business, and it lets me make videos and share my knowledge and experience, and make some money while I am at it.
@@12voltvids Very interesting story.. was the Volt an early EV like a Leaf? The formal training in VCR repair really shows in your videos.. it looks like you took to it like a duck to water. Strange that you wanted to stay away from it for so long and waded back into it for a friend. It appears you have a natural talent as well as a clever attitude about the subject. I wonder how you never wound up in Television and Movie production there since I thought Lions Gate Studios is around there and there were many special effects shops producing material for many TV and Cable series.
@@joey_after_midnight
The volt is a plug in extended range EV. I have 2. Old one goes about 35 miles on battery before switching to gas. New one goes 55 miles on the battery before switching.
I went through the tv production course just before Hollywood north took off. A friend of mine 5 years younger got into the the film industry. I was already in the repair business by then and was running my own video for hire company.
@@12voltvids Ahh.. I see. I wondered about those hybrids. Kind of sounds like an inkjet printer situation. Every so often you need to make sure to run the gas engine to make sure nothing drys out or gums up over time. Or vice versa, make sure the battery has a good charge for when you need it. It sounds range flexible though.
Running your own business must have been more profitable than working for someone else. I can understand that.
@@joey_after_midnight
Maintainence mode runs the engine every 8 weeks if it doesn't use any gas for 8 weeks. It will also force all the gas to be used up after a year. No there wasn't that much money money in video production. If there had been i wouldn't have been working in the repair shop. My costs were so high i made very little in the end. One of my cameras was 20 grand. I was always looking for that big break but it never happened. So much competition all after the same customers.
I didn't do it full time. Wasn't willing to take that risk. Repair shop paid well, the video work paid me an extra couple grand a month so i could buy toys.
Watch your videos all the time, But I have a question. Why are electrolytic capacitors such a problem and why hasn't anyone made a better one?
A wise man once said "The reliability of any electronic device is inversely proportional to the number of electrolytic capacitors it contains. "
"Planned obsolescence"
@@kyoudaiken
Built for a price point.
Wonder how many capacitors are in an average car?
@@Sans_Solo_ Automotive parts are generally very high quality.
Спасибо!Класс.
here in the US we say "soder" without the L, which is how google says it too "/ˈsädər/". just like the number 0, we say "zero" but a lot of people say "zed"
Google pronounces it incorrect.
Do ESR values of capacitor varies with ESR Meters.
No. The meter is Zeroed out before measurement.
@@12voltvids I bought a cheap ESR meter. For ESR values i googled internet their are so many list but values varies in different list. How is it possible.
I believe it is called marking stragery.
does anyone know of a good source for assorted belts for vcr and dvd players?
I've got hundreds of new belts. Just depends on what you need.
@@NunYa953 i'm not sure, but i have a bunch of vcr's etc and seems everytime i pull one apart it needs belts. i'm in alabama, maybe we can do some trading..? thanks
Should have cleaned that head; still some artifacts in the display.
But I guess right as being a power supply issue.
Watch the last 30 seconds. He cleaned the heads off camera
Hey there. My dad is a born & bred Canadian (Montreal, Quebec)....So since that’s the case do I get a pass for saying solder bot the American way & the Canadian way?! 🤣😂🤘🏻
15:19 ahahha it's you hearing! or you got a fancy tongue that can make ol sound....
it's sodder....you're soddering the components to the board...with the soddering iron.
Fancy pants all about "saol-der" ....all right back to "SaOLderINg" lol
they're words, intended to convey meaning of stuff and things of sorts.......not a pissing match of, not even education, but sound making lol
My point is who cares? especially someone in the field of logic.
By the way awesome vid as always, from my perspective you're a wizard at this.
That iron tip looks like its on its last legs
Actually it is brand new.
I have sony slv -x55 with no power and a leaky power supply caps .
I prefer the French pronunciation of "solder" with is "souder". 😂
How about the Chinese pronouncing 'sorder'
What happened to your intro?......Meeeoooowwwww!!
Cat is on strike. Is demanding more treats. Cat will return to work some day.
This deck is from the early 90's.
Not really. My parents had one without HiFi Stereo from the early 90s. And that one didn't wanna break... So I missed HiFi Stereo back then on VHS... As he said this unit from around 2000.
@@kyoudaiken I still have the brochures of these series. It's from 1993. The Sony decks from 2000 and later are made by Samsung and Funai.
@@KR1275 When did HiFi Stereo first pop up on Sony VCRs?
@@kyoudaiken Around 82 (BetaHifi).
@@KR1275 i looked this model up on sony.ca and it said Aug 2003.
All these faulty Electronics?? How do they make very reliable Electronis for space and such like? Random question? I know, but i find it bewildering? That they make consumer electronics to fail!
Consumer extronics are built for a specific price. Space craft can not fail for it's designed life or longer. There is a reason a satellite cost 20 million to build. That satellite is nothing more than a radio receiver and transmitter. The reason that my old betamax units still run is because they were 2000.00 machines. Consumers driven by Walmart's demand for the lowest cost required companies to cut corners and use lower cost parts. Lower cost parts are not built as robust and generally don't last as long.
Be careful and stay safe.
Leading North has taken the intro from "":Play wioth fire get burnt" In his highly stupidly made latest not my video at all project. Tori amos should also file a copyright strike for the illegal use of her muisic.
He was struck down again.
The VCR chassis in these is garbage. Hate them.
Yup garbage.
@@12voltvids better than the ones with the blue loading cogs.. but that's about it.. These arrived about the time I got out of tv repair.. went into computers instead.. and boy.. Mitsumi and bad caps.. damn floppy drives
Actually, you being from Canada, should not pronounce the l in solder. Solder is soudure in French Canadian. So, most Americans got the pronunciation from Canada!
I am not French Canadian. I am bloody Scottish and Irish. I speak the Queen's English.
@@12voltvids Sorry, I wasn't trying to offend, just point out the error that Americans make in using the French/Canadian word for solder. I know you are not French/Canadian but you do live in one of their cities.
@@lstein3372 really? Vancouver is a French Canadian city? News to me. Quebec yes, but out west there are not that many Francophones and they are concentrated in mallardville.