Thank you for your great video. There are not thrift or Godwill strores in Argentina. You are lucky there. I am an old man and serviced many valvular and first transistors electronics in the 50´s. Cheers from Patagonia, Argentina.
Thank you for commenting on the video all the way from Argentina. I would love to visit your part of the world eventually. I am also retired and getting older but I enjoy the hobby of repairing vintage electronics.
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@@mguess it wii be an honour. I collaborated with The Planetary Society and NASA in Sciene Outreach, many visited us. You are invited. Gracias.
I have a SONY VHS tape player. Unsure how many years old. But I got it from my Stepdads mums house. But the tapes played really well and hasn't eaten any tapes for sure The only thing is that are like 3 box full of Star Trek TV show volumes which some are dirty (in need of cleaning). But they all work well though Much appreciation from England, UK
Thanks for commenting. Glad to hear that you have put another vintage VCR back into operation. Hang on to it. They're not making any new ones and it may eventually be cool to play old vhs tapes.
The product that I used is a contact cleaner that does have some lubricant in it. If you can't get Deoxit then you can probably substitute any good electronics contact cleaner. There is a guy that I follow on UA-cam that works on many VCRs. He uses a stainless steel brush to clean the mode switch contacts and then applies dielectric grease to protect the contacts. His channel is called NorCal715. Here is a link to one of his VCR mode switch videos. ua-cam.com/video/Rmc4f1B0pT0/v-deo.html
Brandless VCR/DVD player suffering this, was inspired to take the cover off and get to the mode switch... ended up taking so many components out and still failed to get to the underside of the cassette carriage. Tossed it! My fail.
Great video 👍 My JVC vcr has the tape indicator on where no tape inside but when i insert a tape it works fine and when i unpluge it the tape indicator is on again trying to go in play mode and hearing to motor working .. is it a mode switch problem ?
It could be. Dirty mode switches can cause many unusual problems. Also check the emitter and sensors which detect tape movement and end/beginning of tape.
I didn't see the Funai name on any label but I guess they could have had a hand in it. I really liked the way that you can remove the VCR chassis without removing any cables. Good design for maintenance.
@@mguess The thing is these were manufactured by Funai under many names. If you look up Funai VCRs on UA-cam, you'll see some with this mechanism under the Symphonic, Sylvania, White Westinghouse, SV2000, and right here, Hitachi. There's also an older version of this VCR mechanism under other brand names but I'm only talking about the newer version of the mechanism like this one here.
I prefer to manually clean the heads. It's not hard to do. Here is a link to another one of my videos where I demonstrate cleaning the entire tape path. ua-cam.com/video/xVqMG3Cu0II/v-deo.html
Thank you for your great video. There are not thrift or Godwill strores in Argentina. You are lucky there. I am an old man and serviced many valvular and first transistors electronics in the 50´s. Cheers from Patagonia, Argentina.
Thank you for commenting on the video all the way from Argentina. I would love to visit your part of the world eventually. I am also retired and getting older but I enjoy the hobby of repairing vintage electronics.
@@mguess it wii be an honour. I collaborated with The Planetary Society and NASA in Sciene Outreach, many visited us. You are invited. Gracias.
Badass! I have a sylvania from around that era- bout to work on it tomorrow 😄😄😄
It is a early Funai mechanism for sure. I worked on a few.
Im going to try this on a player in the morning. Thnx for the tip 👌
Very helpful 👌 thank you
Good video, helped me a lot!
Glad it helped!
@@mguess I think that funai vcr design is the best. Its all compact with more parts then other cheap vcrs of that era.
I have a SONY VHS tape player. Unsure how many years old. But I got it from my Stepdads mums house. But the tapes played really well and hasn't eaten any tapes for sure
The only thing is that are like 3 box full of Star Trek TV show volumes which some are dirty (in need of cleaning). But they all work well though
Much appreciation from England, UK
Thanks for commenting. Glad to hear that you have put another vintage VCR back into operation. Hang on to it. They're not making any new ones and it may eventually be cool to play old vhs tapes.
I thought this thread was about connecting the BHS ??
Wonder why he couldn't go to Goodwill. Banned for some criminal michief? 🤔
Nothing nefarious. In the early days of the pandemic all my local thrift stores were closed.
Is there no lubricant needed in the mode switch? I live in Sweden so i have no idea about the product your cleaning with. Thnx for the video.
The product that I used is a contact cleaner that does have some lubricant in it. If you can't get Deoxit then you can probably substitute any good electronics contact cleaner. There is a guy that I follow on UA-cam that works on many VCRs. He uses a stainless steel brush to clean the mode switch contacts and then applies dielectric grease to protect the contacts. His channel is called NorCal715. Here is a link to one of his VCR mode switch videos. ua-cam.com/video/Rmc4f1B0pT0/v-deo.html
Brandless VCR/DVD player suffering this, was inspired to take the cover off and get to the mode switch... ended up taking so many components out and still failed to get to the underside of the cassette carriage. Tossed it! My fail.
It happens. I've tossed a few also. You can't save them all.
Great video 👍 My JVC vcr has the tape indicator on where no tape inside but when i insert a tape it works fine and when i unpluge it the tape indicator is on again trying to go in play mode and hearing to motor working .. is it a mode switch problem ?
It could be. Dirty mode switches can cause many unusual problems. Also check the emitter and sensors which detect tape movement and end/beginning of tape.
That Hitachi VCR was unfortunately a Funai
I didn't see the Funai name on any label but I guess they could have had a hand in it. I really liked the way that you can remove the VCR chassis without removing any cables. Good design for maintenance.
@@mguess The thing is these were manufactured by Funai under many names. If you look up Funai VCRs on UA-cam, you'll see some with this mechanism under the Symphonic, Sylvania, White Westinghouse, SV2000, and right here, Hitachi. There's also an older version of this VCR mechanism under other brand names but I'm only talking about the newer version of the mechanism like this one here.
I realize I am pretty off topic but do anybody know of a good website to stream newly released movies online ?
@Joel Thiago Try FlixZone. You can find it on google =)
@Darwin Ellis Yea, I've been watching on flixzone for since april myself =)
i have this vcr.
Does yours eat tapes?
@@mguess not yet lol
You need a VHS head cleaner tape to clean your VCR!
I prefer to manually clean the heads. It's not hard to do. Here is a link to another one of my videos where I demonstrate cleaning the entire tape path. ua-cam.com/video/xVqMG3Cu0II/v-deo.html
Useless ..
I just wasted time on listening to NOTHING !!!