Bloody brilliant mate. I really like your simple, no fuss walk throughs. Watching your videos teaches me a lot. I'd love to see a video on the most common causes a VHS machine refuses to load a tape, and the remedies to fix it. I have collected a few old decks from rubbish heaps and try to practice on these machines. And the most failures I see are they don't load tapes but just lowers the tray when the tape is inserted. Then after a few seconds ejects the tape again. Thank you
One suggestion: Make intro loudness lower, and/or put some compression on your audio output for the whole video to get it louder... Thank you for those precious repair videos ! Right to repair forever!
I'm one of those weirdos, LOL! I record off of MTV 90s and MTV 80s and use it sometimes as background music when I have guests. The sound is fantastic in hi-fi stereo and I don't care much about the picture quality, so it's all good. As a kid I used my family's VCR so much that I guess there's something in me that still loves those things.
When this happened to me, I just put a drop of superglue on that long shaft of the top piece that holds everything together. That way everything turns as it should AND the clutch does not fall apart anymore (Sony SLV-E1000)
i have a JVC HR-S7800U. It has a constant tape diet. i am thankful the machine's metabolism is in good shape, as it doesn't eat all tapes all the time. i will need to open up the VCR and maybe i can make the machine a little anorexic, where tapes are not on the menu! thanks for sharing your know-how in your video!
I was always paranoid that things like that would fail again, so I bought all new parts. My boss hated it when we had a repeat failure. I know that new parts aren't an option for you, but you are so good at improvising. Something I'm learning with my old truck. I enjoy your videos so much. Great fix!
Watching this because I have an old Mitsubishi VCR I came across and the heads are spitting the tape back out. If it’s in play it only spits a tiny bit, if I fast forward it’s a mess!
I just cleaned the heads on a Samsung dvd-9700 dvd-vcr combo and its working really well now, thanks for the simple quick tutorial. I have been testing the capture cards i have to see if any of them bypass Macrovision. so far only my Hauppauge colossus pci-e capture card can.
I just bought a dvd, VCR combo at a thrift store really really hoping for vcr to work but it didn't. I had to hide it before my 9 year old autistic child who is obsessed with vhs tapes got home from school and be disappointed. I hope I can fix it 🤞Thank you!
Bloody brilliant mate. I really like your simple, no fuss walk throughs. Watching your videos teaches me a lot. I'd love to see a video on the most common causes a VHS machine refuses to load a tape, and the remedies to fix it. I have collected a few old decks from rubbish heaps and try to practice on these machines. And the most failures I see are they don't load tapes but just lowers the tray when the tape is inserted. Then after a few seconds ejects the tape again. Thank you
This must be a nightmare to fix with the crt tv vcr combos.
One suggestion: Make intro loudness lower, and/or put some compression on your audio output for the whole video to get it louder... Thank you for those precious repair videos ! Right to repair forever!
Always nice to see another VCR failure type and how to fix it. These are quite complex machines, at least from amateur like me, point of view :)
I'm one of those weirdos, LOL! I record off of MTV 90s and MTV 80s and use it sometimes as background music when I have guests. The sound is fantastic in hi-fi stereo and I don't care much about the picture quality, so it's all good. As a kid I used my family's VCR so much that I guess there's something in me that still loves those things.
I'm glad someone still cares about repairing these machines, they are still usefully.
When this happened to me, I just put a drop of superglue on that long shaft of the top piece that holds everything together. That way everything turns as it should AND the clutch does not fall apart anymore (Sony SLV-E1000)
i have a JVC HR-S7800U. It has a constant tape diet. i am thankful the machine's metabolism is in good shape, as it doesn't eat all tapes all the time. i will need to open up the VCR and maybe i can make the machine a little anorexic, where tapes are not on the menu! thanks for sharing your know-how in your video!
Other great video repair i think one time i
I was always paranoid that things like that would fail again, so I bought all new parts. My boss hated it when we had a repeat failure. I know that new parts aren't an option for you, but you are so good at improvising. Something I'm learning with my old truck. I enjoy your videos so much. Great fix!
hey as long as chewie is off a tape eating diet then count me a happy man.
3 D print it! 😂😂
Smashing, the owner will be happy :-D
I record on cassette tapes, so I am a weirdo....
Watching this because I have an old Mitsubishi VCR I came across and the heads are spitting the tape back out. If it’s in play it only spits a tiny bit, if I fast forward it’s a mess!
I just cleaned the heads on a Samsung dvd-9700 dvd-vcr combo and its working really well now, thanks for the simple quick tutorial. I have been testing the capture cards i have to see if any of them bypass Macrovision. so far only my Hauppauge colossus pci-e capture card can.
Dave, would a 'c' clip work to hold the clutch assembly from coming apart again? Thanks for the great video!
That machine reminds me of a blaunkpaunt (i dont remember how this german brand is written) vcr which has almost same board and tape mechanism.
I just bought a dvd, VCR combo at a thrift store really really hoping for vcr to work but it didn't. I had to hide it before my 9 year old autistic child who is obsessed with vhs tapes got home from school and be disappointed. I hope I can fix it 🤞Thank you!
Hi Dave, I would change that red washer that holds the clutch, because I saw these get weak and pop out almost instantly.