I have the HR-S3500U and mine has that same thing with the spring that you said was kinda janky. To me that does not look right but I guess it did come from the factory like that. I have had mine since the day I bought it back in 1998. Only issue I am currently having is the video output, the svideo and composite is not working. It comes and goes. I have to put some resistance or bend the cables some to get some tightness and then it works. I need to find out how to fix this.
Hey I have a HR-S4600U, and one of the guide pins seems to have fallen out. However the machine is still playing tapes just fine, so I don't know where the pin goes. It doesn't seem to be required for operation but I still want to put it back. It seems to be for the takeup or supply tension? I am not sure. I think the mechanism in mine is the same as the 3800.
mechanism of many videos have a wear, so the tape move to up or down on tracking and audio mono head. If you need discovered it, listen with attention mono audio, you will listen the audio quality down after play. Less treble on audio indicate that tape out of correct position on audio/ctrl head.
@@probnotstech I used to molycote and wow what a difference. When I load and eject a tape it is so much more quiet. The machine is 25 years old so that old grease was dried up
I have a very similar VCR, did you see my video? The model is HR-S3600U. Last summer I bought a Titanic VHS tape at the thrift store so I can watch the movie, and when I went to play it, it did the same exact issue as your tape, the tracking would go in and out. I tried it with another VCR and it worked well. Then, I tried with many of my VCRs, and the issue happened on some VCRs and some not. I noticed the bottom part of the tape was slightly folded as well so the tracking data on the tape is damaged.
Interesting. It seems like some VCRs are more sensitive to the control track pulse than others. I haven't seen your HR-S3600U video, I'll check it out.
13:30 I've seen VCRs that don't even have a plastic piece there, it's empty. Which means the entire width of the tape is erased with the one erase head
Fivos Sakellis commented below that it was used to bridge the gap at between the full erase head and the audio record head, when a recording is first started. You should test on one of those VCRs to see if you get audio crosstalk (audio from old and new recordings) for a few seconds at the beginning.
You probably wouldn't notice the crosstalk on later machines without the separate audio erase head as most of them were Hi-Fi and linear audio was probably only kept for compatibility with older recordings. The bias signal was probably good enough to erase some of the old audio. (Can't see the comment from Fivos - maybe it's been deleted)
I have a few very worn Betamax tapes that won't track on some machines but will track fine on others. The audio erase head is needed because there is a distance between the audio erase head and the full erase head. So if that head wasn't there and you went to record over an existing recording, I guess the linear audio track would be messed up during the first few seconds of the recording.
Thanks for the explanation. It seems so obvious in hindsight, not sure how I didn't figure that out. I may try disconnecting it to see what the results are like. It would probably just sound like 2 audio tracks together for a few seconds.
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I have one of these, still works fine, it once damaged one of mi tapes but it didn't happen again, very nostalgic machine!
Just unpacking mine that I bought in 2003
I have the HR-S3500U and mine has that same thing with the spring that you said was kinda janky. To me that does not look right but I guess it did come from the factory like that. I have had mine since the day I bought it back in 1998. Only issue I am currently having is the video output, the svideo and composite is not working. It comes and goes. I have to put some resistance or bend the cables some to get some tightness and then it works. I need to find out how to fix this.
Hey I have a HR-S4600U, and one of the guide pins seems to have fallen out. However the machine is still playing tapes just fine, so I don't know where the pin goes. It doesn't seem to be required for operation but I still want to put it back. It seems to be for the takeup or supply tension? I am not sure. I think the mechanism in mine is the same as the 3800.
mechanism of many videos have a wear, so the tape move to up or down on tracking and audio mono head. If you need discovered it, listen with attention mono audio, you will listen the audio quality down after play. Less treble on audio indicate that tape out of correct position on audio/ctrl head.
Got this guy today for 8 dollars. Thanks For the video
You should clean all the heads when you get those errors
I have the 3500U and it just turned 25 years old last Friday. I was curious what type of lubricating grease can I use on this unit?
I just use generic Super-Lube multi-purpose synthetic grease. I've also heard 12voltvids here on youtube recommend molycote.
@@probnotstech I used to molycote and wow what a difference. When I load and eject a tape it is so much more quiet. The machine is 25 years old so that old grease was dried up
I have a very similar VCR, did you see my video? The model is HR-S3600U. Last summer I bought a Titanic VHS tape at the thrift store so I can watch the movie, and when I went to play it, it did the same exact issue as your tape, the tracking would go in and out. I tried it with another VCR and it worked well. Then, I tried with many of my VCRs, and the issue happened on some VCRs and some not. I noticed the bottom part of the tape was slightly folded as well so the tracking data on the tape is damaged.
Interesting. It seems like some VCRs are more sensitive to the control track pulse than others. I haven't seen your HR-S3600U video, I'll check it out.
13:30
I've seen VCRs that don't even have a plastic piece there, it's empty. Which means the entire width of the tape is erased with the one erase head
Fivos Sakellis commented below that it was used to bridge the gap at between the full erase head and the audio record head, when a recording is first started. You should test on one of those VCRs to see if you get audio crosstalk (audio from old and new recordings) for a few seconds at the beginning.
You probably wouldn't notice the crosstalk on later machines without the separate audio erase head as most of them were Hi-Fi and linear audio was probably only kept for compatibility with older recordings. The bias signal was probably good enough to erase some of the old audio. (Can't see the comment from Fivos - maybe it's been deleted)
I have a few very worn Betamax tapes that won't track on some machines but will track fine on others. The audio erase head is needed because there is a distance between the audio erase head and the full erase head. So if that head wasn't there and you went to record over an existing recording, I guess the linear audio track would be messed up during the first few seconds of the recording.
Thanks for the explanation. It seems so obvious in hindsight, not sure how I didn't figure that out. I may try disconnecting it to see what the results are like. It would probably just sound like 2 audio tracks together for a few seconds.
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