Keep them running.....that was The radio repair man motto during WW2 years when radio parts were hard to come by due to the war effort. A lot of improvisation going on the home front. When VCRs and Beta systems started selling in around 1980. The selling point was not to play pre-recorded tapes but to record your favorite shows off TV! I still use mine to do that to this day! And yes I am not on your repair level...but I keep it going... Thanks for all your great tips!!
I'm giving you a thumbs up because you fixed an item that would just as well been used as a door stop. Now, it's useful to someone for a little while longer.
Absolutely brilliant as always, On a machine that otherwise would have been trashed, You again show your Great ability to Save these Machines, Thank you.
I'm an Electronics technician that ended up in the field of Photocopiers and Laser printers, been doing it now for 40 years. I'm retired now and only service units for friends ... funny how so many manufactures put their names on someone else's machines (Re-Branding) and how many parts and sub assemblies were the same between manufactures, and sometimes a new model year machine was the same machine as last years with a slightly different case or paint scheme, sometimes an enhanced feature or two. I love your videos as I do the same thing ... always tinkering with something ... and if you thought VCR's were complex ... try the gearing and drive systems of a Color Laser printer or an Inkjet printer where a single motor was used to power several assemblies by rotating both directions and powering a second drive system thru a one-way clutch. Many times the little motors or gears would break due to the stress of turning so many different parts, we termed this "Planned Obsolescense" the makers engineered it to fail. Of course ... the Manufacturers only goal was to sell Supplies ... because that's where they made their money - Toner is cheap !! the chips they put on the cartridges are what lock consumers out of using competitive (cheaper) ink or toner. HP and Epson are the most vicious, pursuing law-suits against third party ink and toner. Keep up the good work !! those who have never done will criticize those who do ... and have done, our work is an art and a science !!
You got that right. Yes color laser printers, and double side printers are a nightmare. I have been lucky. My old samsung clp510 is at least 15 years old and runs like a champ.
Got a brother b&w wireless laser copier 10 years old going strong. Toner only changed once, next year replacing it again. Toner ladts about 5 to 6 years. Drum srill is 67%
Great repair dave, that was a horrible mess to clean up. i hope your frend does actually give you some money. I've never seen that type of belt death in a vcr, but philips tape recorders and reel to reels were a bugger for it. My mates reel to reel belts did the same, i had to scrape it off as nothing seemed to dissolve it.
Thank you for being so honest-after watching your video I threw mine away and bought another one that I needed to digitize my old vhs tapes. Thanks again because you saved me a lot of time.
You do such great work and show and give such good instruction you are a great CREDIT to the profession of the service industry - Keep up the awsome work, And SHAME On those who have nothing better to say. If they cant say something nice { and YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE} then leave this person alone and go and sulk somewhere else But This Awsome service technition needs and deserves all our Respect for the profession he is in. It would be such a unbearable shame if you stopped teaching. I cant say enough how much your vids mean to all of us who need insiration guidence and who want to learn - We who appreaciat you for what you do and teach think you are absolutly WONDERFUL - take courage from us and dont give up.. The Lord Bless you Dave Cheers
Another great video that helped me to fix mitsubishi hs-551v which very very similar, european model of the same.. Belts were melted so I had to go through the same pain and my hands were all in this black shit.. was lucky to put this back so the timing did not fail but because of your video
I started out with basic copiers that used cams and switches and occasional sensors, either liquid toner or coated paper that was charged, then exposed to light and fixed in place with high pressure rollers. The first plain paper copiers were known for occasionally catching on fire from the heat lamp fusing assemblies. Gradually more electronics and then microprocessors, the first document feeders were next, as well as Sorters, Duplexers used to be very complex as they had to stack the copies and wait for the second side to be scanned ... it was a long complex paper path and each copy was an individual scan (slow). The optical system was complex as well as the the focal length had to be maintained as the scanning light and mirrors moved. I loved Electro-Mechanical systems so I fit right in !! unfortunately like you I had Skin-Flint bosses that didn't understand that they needed to serve the customer and not just bill them ... but that also taught me to fix the impossible with less than nothing.
At the 25:30 mark you say that you are pulling the guide pin out. Where is that? I pulled my mode switch out to clean it and I'm having trouble getting it all to work the same way yours has in the the video. I assume you have to pull out the guide pin to ensure that the tape loads (or at least the mechanism moves) when you are spinning the small rollers on the bottom. When I have it all together and I try to turn the loading motor, it only goes so far and certainly doesn't move the mechanisms that load the tape onto the head.
I’m Ginny to be an opposite troll and tell you that I’m giving you a thumbs up fri teaching my such great things. I fixed my old toshiba VCR that had a perished belt in, (no bad mode switch due to one of those photo sensor things not a switch) and I digitalised all my old vhs tapes using a wintv card in an old computer I was given.
2:25 "There's 2 screws below here, but as you can see, there's a tape in the machine" Well that looks like a good opportunity to roll the credits haha.
Hi enjoy watching your videos, if you can get flash all purpose crisp lemon cleaner yellow colour, it gets rid of the gooey belts easily and of your hands its cheap and works perfectly.
Worst is when something small gets a mussy belt. I've had to repair a few walkmans in states like that. Feel your pain and don't know how anyone manage to last 30 odd years repairing such things!
The material used for those small belts would almost have to be based on poylbutadiene. Other materials are added to control elasticity or strength. All deteriorate in the presence of oxygen, oxides of sulphur or nitrogen.
@12voltvids Hi! i have a few questions about my Sony camcorder, I'm from the UK so unfortunately i cant send it off to you. The camcorder is a Sony TRV15E it's about 25 years old, the 8mm tapes are playing but the sound and video are crackly and some tapes run with a blue screen, i actually watched one of your videos on a Sony being repaired and i managed to open the camcorder and clean it a lil and it worked for a little while but has gone back to how it was, also it's eating some of the tapes and has the error message "C:31:22" very frustrating. any advice would be appreciated! Thank you.
Just throw that thing in the garbage, it's not worth your time. These camcorders are a pain in the ass to get working right, and once they do, they're still a ticking time bomb that could blow at any time. If you need to get some tapes dubbed, I recommend you take them to someone who has the proper (working) equipment to do so.
Btw I have three of these camcorders; one is totally dead, the other doesn't work and throws random error messages and the last one has playback and recording issues. These things are just super delicate, and they will fail no matter how much you take care of them (as in the case of the second camcorder, which still failed despite never being hit or dropped).
Enzo Perruccio thank you for your reply, yes you’re right they are a pain in the ass I spent 3 days trying to fix it, I managed to borrow a similar Sony off my friend but the tapes were being eaten! Maybe it’s my tapes they are 20+ years old, I will get them dubbed like you said, I think it’s easier and less time wasted so it may be worth the money
Some people get PTSD from piffling little things like war, injuries or childhood abuse... Having rebelted loads of CarryCorder 150s, we get it from seeing British Petroleum - Louisiana Division belts... The horror... The horror... Scrubbing Bubbles Basin Tub & Tile cleaner really works a treat on that glorp...
I remember a teacher from school giving me a broken Mitsubishi VCR with that same purple sticker only it made a noise and shut off. She gave it to me back on 9/20/13. The belt was broken in it my neighbor said. Not the same, but pretty familiar to what she gave to me.
Of all the later model HiFi VCR's which ones would you obtain used? In terms of ease of repair and current availability of mechanical parts? I'm thinking later model Panasonic and maybe Sony? I know that Emerson, Symphonic and ( Can't think of the name, but they made VHS machines for anyone and everyone there at the end.) are kind of crummy. I do use my Panasonic HiFi for recording high quality audio, and watching the occasional movie but I'd like to acquire some spare units that might need belts or cleaning.
Thanks for this mate. I don't know if you are still looking at your videos but I have a question. I have a similar VCR to this by Mitsubishi. It's the MS11v. I have replaced the belts which went like yours did. But when I load the tape, it's sometimes won't come all the way out and takes a few goes. Also, the tape wraps around the head as it should when the tape goes in, but hitting the play button, the rewind, all the fast forward button doesn't actually spin the winders at all. On the display, it shows fast forwarding and rewinding is taking place, but all that happens is the head keeps spinning while the tape is wrapped around the head. Is this a timing issue or something else? I thought it could be the timing issue that you corrected, I'm not sure. Any suggestions? Thanks very much for putting this video up. It looks identical to my VCR.
@@12voltvids Thanks very much! This is my go-to video for fixing the mode switch. I'll take all of this into consideration. Thanks for coming back despite the fact that your video is 4 years old.
This machine mode switch was hard to get. I have dvd+vcr combo, where mode-switch was inside close system. All connections was soldering no fast connections. It will got time :D Machine is EuroLine. When start dvd, welcome screen is FUJI... That machine was 2€ in shop.. so is bad.
Just had a strange temporary problem with my Philips VCR from 2003. One day, out of blue the image was faulty, lots of interference in the image, audio was good. It was not the cassette as I tried with multiple known good tapes. Then, the next day, at first the problem stayed the same, but then I rewinded one tape from end to end, and after that, the image returned to normal. Wondering if it's possible, that the tape rewinding did something, or was it just a coincidence, and some other temporary problem just happened to fix itself then. As of right now, it's still working. Just wondering how long, as I didn't find out the actual fault, that caused the image problem.
Great video!! I have a HS-U510 and used your video to set up all the alignment after my belts dissolved into goo. But, once tape is loaded, the drive will not turn and advance the tape? Any thoughts? Motor is free to turn, and new belts. And pulleys are not cracked! Am I missing something or is motor possibly fried?
very good video ! what is the red liquid you use to clean the switch mode part ? ( after cleaning what grease to put ? ) what grease to use on these mechanism ? for the metallic parts ? for the plastic parts ? for the desk ? ( the plastic parts ) the first gease was transparent green.
@@12voltvids Thank you. I own the same VCR mechanism for the Mitsubishi HSFS-5601-V ( it's almost the same mechanism except for one detail, without the small roller cleaner for the upper head ) probably a model made for the European market ( it's the Pal Secam version ) I try to repair it since many years but I failed... so far , that VCR gives a very good quality of analog pictures for a VHS technology ( on " pause " a frozen picture is clean without parasite ) it gives also a good stereo sound. the long play mode video " rec + play " is also good in comparaison of other VCR I owned or I tried. Your video will help me to fix the problems on the mechanism I did in trying to repair it.
Greetings 12voltvids I am getting a 1985 Mitsubishi VHS VCR HS-3281UR. These Newer VCR's are Okay I wonder if older ones last longer? 1977-1989 Era or 1990's? I had a 2000's Era Sharp VCR with Rapid Rewind. I never quite yet had the Funds for Betamax or Laserdisc hate to lose Picture Quality!. Can you enlighten me on Betamax and Laserdisc? Do the Tapes still get eaten like VHS?
Any notification from 12voltvids with "VCR" instantly it grabs my attention. You did an Amazing job, and continue to mystify me how you get those timing gears and sliders in alignment. I can't spot or recognize the markers. But even then you have an intuitive sense of exactly what to do. It speaks volumes of your experience. Does your repair business have an online form to submit requests for repair?
Repair business? No I am not really in the business anymore. It is more of a fun thing to do now. I don't make any money doing this work. Just for the fun and challenge. I hung up my professional technician lab coat in 2003. Back then I was like the rest of the guys in the trade. I held my secrets close especially against the junior techs at the shop. Didn't want them learning too much.
@@12voltvids That's really sad to hear, you do good work. I understand the need to hold secrets close in a competitive environment. Revealing them at this point shows a lots thought towards mentoring the future and caring about it. You make good videos though. Is Patreon the only method of help you accept, or do you have some more direct less costly methods available?
@@joey_after_midnight at this point I don't do this for a living so it is more to teach others how these old devices work and hopefully help others get things working. When I was in the business I was in a tech group that had professional techs from across the country. We used to share tips all the time but these guys were not the competition. They were in other cities. I guarded my secrets from the junior guys that worked in the same shop that were being paid 1/3 what I was. Unfortunately in a non union shop, if the owner thought that the new guy could do everything I could, what use was I. This happens in many businesses. The young workers are eager to please and perhaps don't have the financial responsibilities and will come in and work for lower wages just to get the job. Those of us with the knowledge did not want to teach any of the young guys anything because that could put our work in jeopardy. This happens to me personally. When i left the repair business i went to work for a satellite installation company for a year, then to the phone company. Within a year I got to find out first hand what going through a nasty 5 month labour dispute was like. I went back to the satellite company as they called me asking if I would be iij interested in working for them while i was locked out at work. I said sure as I had a mortgage and 2 young kids to feed. The owner of the satellite install company offered me half what I had been paid before. I said no way I can do that and his response was "I have 10 guys that are working for that rate so if you want to work that is the rate". I declined the offer at the new rate which would have had me paying the company to work for them . By the time I paid for gas, supplies and the level of insurance they required me to carry I would have been working for 7.55 an hour. I made more than that walking the picket line. As far as donations to the channel, paypal works. PayPal.me/12voltvids
Tape stuck in video deck , display gone mad , lift the lid , capacitor blew its top . Replace the cap with identical little 16V , works now , tape comes out . Replacement cap gets too worm for my liking . Deck runs for 2 days and then it goes again . Take note that replacement cap has been standing detached for many years . Apart from gently narcing the cap priming with low voltage first which I did not do , is it wise to refit a higher voltage cap than 16V ? this cap was heating up a bit
If the original voltage of the cap was 16 V, you can easily use a 25 or 50 V of same capacitance value in its place. With VCR power supplies, you have to work out _WHY_ a part is overheating. In this case it sounds like elevated DC voltage being fed through the new cap and I'd bet some other caps connected to it which have NOT already been replaced, are likely to be leaky and/or out of tolerance. I assume the rest of the machine is OK and the overheating cap is in the power supply section.
I have exactly the same problem. I have the HS-M50V but the drive looks identical. I found out that with Isopropanol its very easy to get this liquid belts mess clean. I bought the service manual but in there (157 pages) no hint how long those two belts have to be? Can you help me with that so i can get my personal vcr almost 25 years old running again. That would be very nice. Thank you!!
Hi thank you very much. The longer one is about 270mm and the shorter one about 75mm. Next question where to get them. Are they round, square oder v profil? And how thick? Thank you. Best Regards!!
El cheapo? F--' OFF. This was a free repair. I got nothing for it. Zero. I even had to supply the belt so why would I put in parts i have to buy. I did this just to show the procedure. The only thing i make is what i get from advertising and then you a holes call me el cheap.
Hi, Your vedios are very educational and informative. Perhaps helping lot of these stuff not ending up in dumpsters. Have a quesion? Do you have any vedios on RCA/CURTIS DRC8335? Thanks for all your work, time and effort.
Because they is what trolls do and then they have to leave a comment as to why they did. A sign of a true troll. Then they get upset when their troll comment is deleted.
let them do a repair job on there vcr and see how far they get before wrecking there vcr then you hear there crying comments that they stuffed up there vcr i give 5 stars thumbs up your are old school tech and you are good at your job dave from south africa
Its rewarding when fix something and it works quite a while ago fixed my tv remote and it still works and i took appart a sat ricever and cleand it with meths it cleaned the componants nicely and all connections including hdmi put it together and its performing tip top condition
Anything post-96/97 for Mitsubishi or almost any other major VHS VCR manufacturer at the time is considered good for garbage if it no longer works or if a part breaks.
I can never see the point of a thumbs down if I don't like a video I just go watch another, except for the ones that gave false facts on UVC lights from China I did give them a thumbs down :-)
Ok i will wave my magic wand and one will appear so I can make a video on it. 🎉🎉 Shit didn't work 😢 Guess you will have to pretend I made a video on a piece of equipment i don't have.
I'm not a troll but i give you a thumbs down because you pounded the front onto the vcr..... LOL Just kidding I always give you a thumbs up. keep up the great work. looking forward to your next upload. :D
12voltvids thanks for the video ! Have you tried disposable gloves so you don't get your hands dirty ? Anyone from Perth,WA in the comments? Jaycar are selling video/audio drive belts at the moment as a mixed lot :) Cheers.
I have boxes full of nitrile gloves in my work truck, we use them because of the covid thing, and I hate them. Try to do fine work wearing gloves. It takes 4x as long to do simple tasks. The trick is baby oil. Wash your hands with baby oil, and that tar like stuff comes right off in a few seconds with no scrubbing. Then some dawn dish soap and your hands are squeaky clean in about a minute.
If you remove the bottom cover first, you can access the loading motor with your finger to remove the tape. These belts are such a bitch when they do this. Hate it.
You are a truly a master technician. We are thankful to learn from you...big thumbs up!!!!
Keep them running.....that was The radio repair man motto during WW2 years when radio parts were hard to come by due to the war effort. A lot of improvisation going on the home front.
When VCRs and Beta systems started selling in around 1980. The selling point was not to play pre-recorded tapes but to record your favorite shows off TV!
I still use mine to do that to this day! And yes I am not on your repair level...but I keep it going...
Thanks for all your great tips!!
My repair level is about 1/10 what it used to be.
I'm giving you a thumbs up because you fixed an item that would just as well been used as a door stop. Now, it's useful to someone for a little while longer.
And not yet cluttering up a landfill somewhere.
I love watching your videos when you repair VCRs. Greetings from Serbia, from Europe.
Nice work! Big thumbs up for getting it up and running in half an hour!
Congratulations! You have reached your 100th VCR repair video!
Is that all? Dam seems like more than that.
Well I made a playlist of every VCR repair video you've uploaded. Feel free to check it out.
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Absolutely brilliant as always, On a machine that otherwise would have been trashed, You again show your Great ability to Save these Machines, Thank you.
I'm an Electronics technician that ended up in the field of Photocopiers and Laser printers, been doing it now for 40 years. I'm retired now and only service units for friends ... funny how so many manufactures put their names on someone else's machines (Re-Branding) and how many parts and sub assemblies were the same between manufactures, and sometimes a new model year machine was the same machine as last years with a slightly different case or paint scheme, sometimes an enhanced feature or two. I love your videos as I do the same thing ... always tinkering with something ... and if you thought VCR's were complex ... try the gearing and drive systems of a Color Laser printer or an Inkjet printer where a single motor was used to power several assemblies by rotating both directions and powering a second drive system thru a one-way clutch. Many times the little motors or gears would break due to the stress of turning so many different parts, we termed this "Planned Obsolescense" the makers engineered it to fail. Of course ... the Manufacturers only goal was to sell Supplies ... because that's where they made their money - Toner is cheap !! the chips they put on the cartridges are what lock consumers out of using competitive (cheaper) ink or toner. HP and Epson are the most vicious, pursuing law-suits against third party ink and toner. Keep up the good work !! those who have never done will criticize those who do ... and have done, our work is an art and a science !!
You got that right.
Yes color laser printers, and double side printers are a nightmare. I have been lucky. My old samsung clp510 is at least 15 years old and runs like a champ.
Got a brother b&w wireless laser copier 10 years old going strong.
Toner only changed once, next year replacing it again. Toner ladts about 5 to 6 years.
Drum srill is 67%
Great repair dave, that was a horrible mess to clean up.
i hope your frend does actually give you some money.
I've never seen that type of belt death in a vcr, but philips tape recorders and reel to reels were a bugger for it.
My mates reel to reel belts did the same, i had to scrape it off as nothing seemed to dissolve it.
Old belts should been call rubber-weapon :D if you got it to your fingers, you need to spend 2h to clean them...
As long as it has value to someone, it's all that should matter. Thanks for another entertaining and educational video.
I just repaired my vcr. Thanks to You !
Thank you for being so honest-after watching your video I threw mine away and bought another one that I needed to digitize my old vhs tapes. Thanks again because you saved me a lot of time.
I’m giving you a thumbs up, because if I opened that up, and found that rubber snot, I woulda chucked the whole damn thing in the garbage can.
There are no thumbs down, only Australian thumbs up. Any user interaction is favorable. But, I'll leave a legit thumbs up regardless.
Did my share of liquefied rubber cleanup; like you, did exactly what had to be done to get the VCR running.
You do such great work and show and give such good instruction you are a great CREDIT to the profession of the service industry - Keep up the awsome work, And SHAME On those who have nothing better to say. If they cant say something nice { and YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE} then leave this person alone and go and sulk somewhere else But This Awsome service technition needs and deserves all our Respect for the profession he is in. It would be such a unbearable shame if you stopped teaching. I cant say enough how much your vids mean to all of us who need insiration guidence and who want to learn - We who appreaciat you for what you do and teach think you are absolutly WONDERFUL - take courage from us and dont give up.. The Lord Bless you Dave
Cheers
Another great video that helped me to fix mitsubishi hs-551v which very very similar, european model of the same..
Belts were melted so I had to go through the same pain and my hands were all in this black shit.. was lucky to put this back so the timing did not fail but because of your video
You have a point, why spend a fortune on something nobody wants. I agree, Mitsubishi used to make excellent electronics way back.
I started out with basic copiers that used cams and switches and occasional sensors, either liquid toner or coated paper that was charged, then exposed to light and fixed in place with high pressure rollers. The first plain paper copiers were known for occasionally catching on fire from the heat lamp fusing assemblies. Gradually more electronics and then microprocessors, the first document feeders were next, as well as Sorters, Duplexers used to be very complex as they had to stack the copies and wait for the second side to be scanned ... it was a long complex paper path and each copy was an individual scan (slow). The optical system was complex as well as the the focal length had to be maintained as the scanning light and mirrors moved. I loved Electro-Mechanical systems so I fit right in !! unfortunately like you I had Skin-Flint bosses that didn't understand that they needed to serve the customer and not just bill them ... but that also taught me to fix the impossible with less than nothing.
only ever given you a thumbs up great repair job true professional nice to watch.
Honestly, I'd be completely happy with the fix you did, I mean it's a VCR, alot of them aren't made to be high end
You are really an engineer with very great experience
hi i am form auckland new zealnd you are good to wach i gave you thumps up 12 voltvids
Extraordinary skills.. great video.. Congratulations..
At the 25:30 mark you say that you are pulling the guide pin out. Where is that?
I pulled my mode switch out to clean it and I'm having trouble getting it all to work the same way yours has in the the video.
I assume you have to pull out the guide pin to ensure that the tape loads (or at least the mechanism moves) when you are spinning the small rollers on the bottom.
When I have it all together and I try to turn the loading motor, it only goes so far and certainly doesn't move the mechanisms that load the tape onto the head.
I’m Ginny to be an opposite troll and tell you that I’m giving you a thumbs up fri teaching my such great things. I fixed my old toshiba VCR that had a perished belt in, (no bad mode switch due to one of those photo sensor things not a switch) and I digitalised all my old vhs tapes using a wintv card in an old computer I was given.
Right on, but 7 so far and counting think I am wasting my time. The 273 and counting are the only ones I care about.
2:25 "There's 2 screws below here, but as you can see, there's a tape in the machine"
Well that looks like a good opportunity to roll the credits haha.
Great video - thanks! Any recommendations on where to get a replacement set of belts?
The customer rarely appreciated the effort we put into these repairs.
It is so interesting to watch and i thank you for sharing your expertise.
This is the NADIR of Japanese engineering. The joy of not fully vulcanized rubber.
Hi enjoy watching your videos, if you can get flash all purpose crisp lemon cleaner yellow colour, it gets rid of the gooey belts easily and of your hands its cheap and works perfectly.
Worst is when something small gets a mussy belt. I've had to repair a few walkmans in states like that. Feel your pain and don't know how anyone manage to last 30 odd years repairing such things!
Let's just say I am much happier installing security systems now.
El cheapo or not el cheapo, always great watching your videos.
These are the ones I was on about. The HS U70 and the HS U80 are commanding huge prices on eBay... For audio!
The material used for those small belts would almost have to be based on poylbutadiene. Other materials are added to control elasticity or strength. All deteriorate in the presence of oxygen, oxides of sulphur or nitrogen.
Watching Dave do repairs is only one part of the learning. Thanks for the chemistry/materials composition lesson too.
@12voltvids Hi! i have a few questions about my Sony camcorder, I'm from the UK so unfortunately i cant send it off to you. The camcorder is a Sony TRV15E it's about 25 years old, the 8mm tapes are playing but the sound and video are crackly and some tapes run with a blue screen, i actually watched one of your videos on a Sony being repaired and i managed to open the camcorder and clean it a lil and it worked for a little while but has gone back to how it was, also it's eating some of the tapes and has the error message "C:31:22" very frustrating. any advice would be appreciated!
Thank you.
Just throw that thing in the garbage, it's not worth your time. These camcorders are a pain in the ass to get working right, and once they do, they're still a ticking time bomb that could blow at any time. If you need to get some tapes dubbed, I recommend you take them to someone who has the proper (working) equipment to do so.
Btw I have three of these camcorders; one is totally dead, the other doesn't work and throws random error messages and the last one has playback and recording issues.
These things are just super delicate, and they will fail no matter how much you take care of them (as in the case of the second camcorder, which still failed despite never being hit or dropped).
Enzo Perruccio thank you for your reply, yes you’re right they are a pain in the ass I spent 3 days trying to fix it, I managed to borrow a similar Sony off my friend but the tapes were being eaten! Maybe it’s my tapes they are 20+ years old, I will get them dubbed like you said, I think it’s easier and less time wasted so it may be worth the money
@@Hannwilliams I would just get a new camcorder. These days they are tape free!
Mitsubishi this looks like one of the more knit picking brands of vcrs.
is there a brand design wise which is easyist to work on for access etc.
Meticulous work my friend.
I learned from following you from some devices
Some people get PTSD from piffling little things like war, injuries or childhood abuse... Having rebelted loads of CarryCorder 150s, we get it from seeing British Petroleum - Louisiana Division belts... The horror... The horror...
Scrubbing Bubbles Basin Tub & Tile cleaner really works a treat on that glorp...
So the question is, are these synthetic or natural rubber belts.
sciencestruck.com/difference-between-natural-rubber-synthetic-rubber
Best a cursory Googling brings up...
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! Thumbs up obviously, very valuable video.
where does one obtain good belts?
I have no idea these days. Every time I order on fleabay I get crap, thin, high wf garbage.
I remember a teacher from school giving me a broken Mitsubishi VCR with that same purple sticker only it made a noise and shut off. She gave it to me back on 9/20/13. The belt was broken in it my neighbor said. Not the same, but pretty familiar to what she gave to me.
Of all the later model HiFi VCR's which ones would you obtain used? In terms of ease of repair and current availability of mechanical parts? I'm thinking later model Panasonic and maybe Sony? I know that Emerson, Symphonic and ( Can't think of the name, but they made VHS machines for anyone and everyone there at the end.) are kind of crummy. I do use my Panasonic HiFi for recording high quality audio, and watching the occasional movie but I'd like to acquire some spare units that might need belts or cleaning.
Oh man, I can’t believe you have to desolder the dang mode switch just to access it to clean the thing. Designed by a sadist, no doubt.
Thanks for this mate.
I don't know if you are still looking at your videos but I have a question.
I have a similar VCR to this by Mitsubishi. It's the MS11v.
I have replaced the belts which went like yours did. But when I load the tape, it's sometimes won't come all the way out and takes a few goes. Also, the tape wraps around the head as it should when the tape goes in, but hitting the play button, the rewind, all the fast forward button doesn't actually spin the winders at all.
On the display, it shows fast forwarding and rewinding is taking place, but all that happens is the head keeps spinning while the tape is wrapped around the head.
Is this a timing issue or something else? I thought it could be the timing issue that you corrected, I'm not sure.
Any suggestions? Thanks very much for putting this video up. It looks identical to my VCR.
Belts miss switch and lubricatiib were most common problems with these.
@@12voltvids Thanks very much! This is my go-to video for fixing the mode switch. I'll take all of this into consideration. Thanks for coming back despite the fact that your video is 4 years old.
thank you
How often do you get Chassis that cannot be repaired or are beyond repair which cannot be repaired..
This machine mode switch was hard to get. I have dvd+vcr combo, where mode-switch was inside close system. All connections was soldering no fast connections. It will got time :D Machine is EuroLine. When start dvd, welcome screen is FUJI... That machine was 2€ in shop.. so is bad.
does the HS-U70 and HS-U80 take apart to replace belts in almost the same way?
Just had a strange temporary problem with my Philips VCR from 2003. One day, out of blue the image was faulty, lots of interference in the image, audio was good. It was not the cassette as I tried with multiple known good tapes. Then, the next day, at first the problem stayed the same, but then I rewinded one tape from end to end, and after that, the image returned to normal.
Wondering if it's possible, that the tape rewinding did something, or was it just a coincidence, and some other temporary problem just happened to fix itself then.
As of right now, it's still working. Just wondering how long, as I didn't find out the actual fault, that caused the image problem.
You are the best !!
Great video!! I have a HS-U510 and used your video to set up all the alignment after my belts dissolved into goo. But, once tape is loaded, the drive will not turn and advance the tape? Any thoughts? Motor is free to turn, and new belts. And pulleys are not cracked! Am I missing something or is motor possibly fried?
If the belt does its job as it's supposed to, then it is the correct belt. Simple as that.
very good video !
what is the red liquid you use to clean the switch mode part ? ( after cleaning what grease to put ? )
what grease to use on these mechanism ?
for the metallic parts ?
for the plastic parts ?
for the desk ? ( the plastic parts ) the first gease was transparent green.
Deoxit.
@@12voltvids Thank you.
I own the same VCR mechanism for the Mitsubishi HSFS-5601-V ( it's almost the same mechanism except for one detail, without the small roller cleaner for the upper head ) probably a model made for the European market ( it's the Pal Secam version )
I try to repair it since many years but I failed...
so far , that VCR gives a very good quality of analog pictures for a VHS technology ( on " pause " a frozen picture is clean without parasite ) it gives also a good stereo sound.
the long play mode video " rec + play " is also good in comparaison of other VCR I owned or I tried.
Your video will help me to fix the problems on the mechanism I did in trying to repair it.
Greetings 12voltvids I am getting a 1985 Mitsubishi VHS VCR HS-3281UR. These Newer VCR's are Okay I wonder if older ones last longer? 1977-1989 Era or 1990's? I had a 2000's Era Sharp VCR with Rapid Rewind. I never quite yet had the Funds for Betamax or Laserdisc hate to lose Picture Quality!. Can you enlighten me on Betamax and Laserdisc? Do the Tapes still get eaten like VHS?
Any tape machine can eat.
Any notification from 12voltvids with "VCR" instantly it grabs my attention. You did an Amazing job, and continue to mystify me how you get those timing gears and sliders in alignment. I can't spot or recognize the markers. But even then you have an intuitive sense of exactly what to do. It speaks volumes of your experience. Does your repair business have an online form to submit requests for repair?
Repair business? No I am not really in the business anymore. It is more of a fun thing to do now. I don't make any money doing this work. Just for the fun and challenge. I hung up my professional technician lab coat in 2003. Back then I was like the rest of the guys in the trade. I held my secrets close especially against the junior techs at the shop. Didn't want them learning too much.
@@12voltvids That's really sad to hear, you do good work. I understand the need to hold secrets close in a competitive environment. Revealing them at this point shows a lots thought towards mentoring the future and caring about it. You make good videos though. Is Patreon the only method of help you accept, or do you have some more direct less costly methods available?
@@joey_after_midnight at this point I don't do this for a living so it is more to teach others how these old devices work and hopefully help others get things working. When I was in the business I was in a tech group that had professional techs from across the country. We used to share tips all the time but these guys were not the competition. They were in other cities. I guarded my secrets from the junior guys that worked in the same shop that were being paid 1/3 what I was. Unfortunately in a non union shop, if the owner thought that the new guy could do everything I could, what use was I. This happens in many businesses. The young workers are eager to please and perhaps don't have the financial responsibilities and will come in and work for lower wages just to get the job. Those of us with the knowledge did not want to teach any of the young guys anything because that could put our work in jeopardy.
This happens to me personally. When i left the repair business i went to work for a satellite installation company for a year, then to the phone company. Within a year I got to find out first hand what going through a nasty 5 month labour dispute was like. I went back to the satellite company as they called me asking if I would be iij interested in working for them while i was locked out at work. I said sure as I had a mortgage and 2 young kids to feed. The owner of the satellite install company offered me half what I had been paid before. I said no way I can do that and his response was "I have 10 guys that are working for that rate so if you want to work that is the rate". I declined the offer at the new rate which would have had me paying the company to work for them . By the time I paid for gas, supplies and the level of insurance they required me to carry I would have been working for 7.55 an hour. I made more than that walking the picket line.
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Tape stuck in video deck , display gone mad , lift the lid , capacitor blew its top .
Replace the cap with identical little 16V , works now , tape comes out .
Replacement cap gets too worm for my liking .
Deck runs for 2 days and then it goes again .
Take note that replacement cap has been standing detached for many years .
Apart from gently narcing the cap priming with low voltage first which I did not do , is it wise to refit a higher voltage cap than 16V ? this cap was heating up a bit
If the original voltage of the cap was 16 V, you can easily use a 25 or 50 V of same capacitance value in its place. With VCR power supplies, you have to work out _WHY_ a part is overheating. In this case it sounds like elevated DC voltage being fed through the new cap and I'd bet some other caps connected to it which have NOT already been replaced, are likely to be leaky and/or out of tolerance. I assume the rest of the machine is OK and the overheating cap is in the power supply section.
@@RoughJustice2k18 YESS thanks for that
I have exactly the same problem. I have the HS-M50V but the drive looks identical. I found out that with Isopropanol its very easy to get this liquid belts mess clean. I bought the service manual but in there (157 pages) no hint how long those two belts have to be? Can you help me with that so i can get my personal vcr almost 25 years old running again. That would be very nice. Thank you!!
You need to measure the belt. Thread string around pully. Tie right. Cut and then measure. Deduct 10% from length and you now have the size.
Hi thank you very much. The longer one is about 270mm and the shorter one about 75mm. Next question where to get them. Are they round, square oder v profil? And how thick? Thank you. Best Regards!!
@@hideki7831 square medium size.
El cheapo does it again lol love ur work i always do good jobs
El cheapo? F--' OFF. This was a free repair. I got nothing for it. Zero. I even had to supply the belt so why would I put in parts i have to buy. I did this just to show the procedure. The only thing i make is what i get from advertising and then you a holes call me el cheap.
Hi, Your vedios are very educational and informative. Perhaps helping lot of these stuff not ending up in dumpsters. Have a quesion? Do you have any vedios on RCA/CURTIS DRC8335? Thanks for all your work, time and effort.
Got a copy of Red Lite XXX stuck in my VCR but I'm too embarrassed to send it in! 😊
Saw my share of those tapes jammed in vcrs. Some were home movies.
My goodness, I can only imagine! xD
Hello again sir I'm trying find schematics for my Toshiba 49L621U. Where do you get your diagrams from?
I really don't understand the logic behind giving a thumbs down. Why not just leave and go look at something else?
Because they is what trolls do and then they have to leave a comment as to why they did. A sign of a true troll. Then they get upset when their troll comment is deleted.
let them do a repair job on there vcr and see how far they get before wrecking there vcr then you hear there crying comments that they stuffed up there vcr i give 5 stars thumbs up your are old school tech and you are good at your job dave from south africa
Its rewarding when fix something and it works quite a while ago fixed my tv remote and it still works and i took appart a sat ricever and cleand it with meths it cleaned the componants nicely and all connections including hdmi put it together and its performing tip top condition
Anything post-96/97 for Mitsubishi or almost any other major VHS VCR manufacturer at the time is considered good for garbage if it no longer works or if a part breaks.
I can never see the point of a thumbs down if I don't like a video I just go watch another, except for the ones that gave false facts on UVC lights from China I did give them a thumbs down :-)
Is that the same VCR that had the Frosty tape in and needed new belts that you repaired a few years ago?
No, this one came in yesterday. Never worked on this one before. Looks like it had never been repaired before.
@@12voltvids The Mechanism looks the same though
Can you make a video on how to repair mitsubishi synthesized Am Fm receiver
Ok i will wave my magic wand and one will appear so I can make a video on it. 🎉🎉
Shit didn't work 😢
Guess you will have to pretend I made a video on a piece of equipment i don't have.
I've watched enough of these videos to say to myself "is he gonna clean the mode switch?" Sure enough...
Needs to be done. Number 1 fault.
@@12voltvids Even on a cheapie $25 repair...
nice video and work
I'm not a troll but i give you a thumbs down because you pounded the front onto the vcr.....
LOL Just kidding I always give you a thumbs up. keep up the great work. looking forward to your next upload. :D
I gave you a thumbs up! So im not a troll!
Do you ever fix owners vcr. I have Panasonic ag-7500. No one will help
I work on the odd one. Mostly svhs,beta and multisystem as these are hard to replace.
$25.00 is not worthy. A little bit more.
Can you fix my Panasonic av 1730 ? Please
What could have caused both belts to turn to mush - at the same time?
Customer tried to clean it with the wrong chemicals?
Probably cheap, crap material that degrades quicker and messier.
I use lighter fluid to clean the rubber mess.
Well I don't smoke so have no need for lighter or fluid.
@@12voltvids I don't smoke too but the lighter fluid sure does a good job cleaning.
Thanks
Hitachi also used this kind of belts that turned into goo.
i had a toshiba from 1990 and the belts had turned into goo aswell
@@byaku83 Sanyo had that problem with the belts in some of their VCRs as well.
12voltvids thanks for the video ! Have you tried disposable gloves so you don't get your hands dirty ? Anyone from Perth,WA in the comments? Jaycar are selling video/audio drive belts at the moment as a mixed lot :) Cheers.
I have boxes full of nitrile gloves in my work truck, we use them because of the covid thing, and I hate them. Try to do fine work wearing gloves. It takes 4x as long to do simple tasks. The trick is baby oil. Wash your hands with baby oil, and that tar like stuff comes right off in a few seconds with no scrubbing. Then some dawn dish soap and your hands are squeaky clean in about a minute.
@@12voltvids Hey thanks for the tip - I must admit wearing gloves for electrical repair work is crap :)
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Goodness, I hate working on equipment with belts that turn into that state.
My fingers are still black.
If you remove the bottom cover first, you can access the loading motor with your finger to remove the tape. These belts are such a bitch when they do this. Hate it.
I have an HS-U770 that needs repair
damn even thou it's not worth the money I would pour a rain of alcohol all over the mechanics. I can't stand all that dirt
Sorry Panasonic pv 1730
I have one of those. It's a piece if crap
Jvc VCR model No. -HR 217MS TIMEING WORKING VEDIO
He has no magic wand 🪄