I seen you do the finger nail trick a few years ago now and I tried it on my Samsung camcorder and the trick worked, was a bad picture and came back perfectly, another great video and educational video thanks, and have a great New year
@@12voltvids i used to fix domestic washing machines, & its much the same for that in uk, most new stuff is made to be "unfixble" now, or parts so expensive your better off buying new machine. . i still fix & sell a few 2nd hand machines tho, but its more beer money than a living now, thankfully i work fulltime in a diff job now
I know you said that in D8 mode the tape goes twice as fast. Is that the only difference that makes the quality of the video recording? Or is there a difference in the way it is recorded onto the tape that makes it digital?
Digital 8 is digital. Video 8 and hi8 is analog. When the 8mm format was devoloped the tape was wrapped 220' as opposed to 180 that regular VCRs. That extra 40' of real estate was used for PCM digital audio that was optional on the 8mn format. This is what made 8mm perfect for digital recording. When the video signal is digitized the full width of the tape is used. (Analog used only 6mm the remaining 2mm was used for PCM sound, time code ect. ). Analog recording the drum spins 1800 rpm (NTSC) bit for digital 8it is 4500 rpm and mini DV 9000. Higher head drum speed needed to record digital information. Higher drum speed requires faster tape speed to record all this data.
Maybe contact cleaner also damages the glue used to attach the stiffner plastic piece on the edge connectors. Used to clean in the past and some time later had to work on it again and those stiffner pieces just came off. What a slap...no glue seems to work and to get it back again...a nightmare. Thanks for sharing all the tricks of the trade with us.
Interesting indeed about those Allsop wet video head cleaners. Any thoughts if they were as bad on cassette deck heads? I have a tape deck where the door doesn't remove for cleaning, and I cannot clean the pinch roller/capstan very well without using a wet type cleaner. Greetings from Newfoundland!
Cassette cleaners completely different. Just a wet pad that rubs the head and capstan / pinch roller. Video cleaner a wet tape that is pulled out and wrapped around a spinning head.
I have a TRV308 and a TRV330 Digital8 as well as a TRV900 with matching GV D900. Also a few DVD HDD camcorders and the HDR HC3 I got recently. My oddest one I still use it occasionally is the CCD-SC55 Video8 now that's a weird mechanism going on there...
I scored a 42" Plasma at an estate sale recently. Comparing it to my OLED other than the OLEDs far better resolution the pictures are really similair, at least viewed head on. Is it worth it to take off the back and check the screws if it's working or do i just wait until i hear the humming get loud?
Tighten the screws, check the box caps on the power transformer for bad solder. If you wait till it pops it may be too late. I need to do my plasma in the studio as it shuts off once in awhile.
Want to hear something funny? I thought boxing day was about the sport involving gloves. It was just about a decade ago I found out what it was really about. Great video, I like camcorder repairs.
Well it was originally the day you took all the boxes that Xmas gifts cane in and disposed them or in the case of my childhood burned them in a fire pit in the back yard.
My digital 8 is not charging, if i plug in the charger the charging yellow light goes on for less than a second and then goes off. I tried to charge the battery but the same thing happens, what do you think the problem is?
Battery fault. There us a chip in the battery where it checks the cell health. If the battery was left on the camera in storage it will have over discharged and not it will not charge again. Never leave the battery in camera when not in use. I ruined a few years ago doing that. Make that expensive mistake only once.
I still have a Sony CCD-TRV26E with extended battery and a fish-eye lens attachment, I paid £3 for it, it does work but the mech is clacky and the noise is recorded to the tape.
I am curious if those bad flex connectors is why my old trv-260 started having issues..it started having worse and worse video playback issues..It would also randomly stop the tape deck and flash some error icon on the screen..I had tried cleaning the heads and it never got better. Then the power connector failed and back then I had no job or money to replace it so it was put in storage. No idea where the camera is now it was put in the garage and vanished at some point.
Another sony camera recovered, happy customer. Sony must have known the connectors would fail, maybe they are shit on purpose. Designed to fail, shame on them.
No they didn't know. Much had to do with storage. Camera bags caused it. The nylon abd other materials off gassing in the camera bag with the camera zipped up inside perfect conditions for metal contacts getting attacked. Same type connectors used in other components like stereo gear, computers, phones, CD players. They didn't act up. My cameras haven't had the failure. Mine are not stored in camera bag they sit on a shelf. Open a camera bag and give it a whiff and smell the off gassing from the materials in the bag.
I seen you do the finger nail trick a few years ago now and I tried it on my Samsung camcorder and the trick worked, was a bad picture and came back perfectly, another great video and educational video thanks, and have a great New year
so nice to have someone like you that still gives a shit & repairs stuff for people, its getting harder & harder to find ppl, esp in the uk !
I keep busy enough. No money on it anymore unfortunately. With the exception to old betamax and some stereo components.
@@12voltvids i used to fix domestic washing machines, & its much the same for that in uk, most new stuff is made to be "unfixble" now, or parts so expensive your better off buying new machine. . i still fix & sell a few 2nd hand machines tho, but its more beer money than a living now, thankfully i work fulltime in a diff job now
I know you said that in D8 mode the tape goes twice as fast. Is that the only difference that makes the quality of the video recording? Or is there a difference in the way it is recorded onto the tape that makes it digital?
Digital 8 is digital. Video 8 and hi8 is analog.
When the 8mm format was devoloped the tape was wrapped 220' as opposed to 180 that regular VCRs. That extra 40' of real estate was used for PCM digital audio that was optional on the 8mn format.
This is what made 8mm perfect for digital recording. When the video signal is digitized the full width of the tape is used. (Analog used only 6mm the remaining 2mm was used for PCM sound, time code ect. ). Analog recording the drum spins 1800 rpm (NTSC) bit for digital 8it is 4500 rpm and mini DV 9000. Higher head drum speed needed to record digital information. Higher drum speed requires faster tape speed to record all this data.
Yea wonderful fix with the finger nail trick!
Maybe contact cleaner also damages the glue used to attach the stiffner plastic piece on the edge connectors. Used to clean in the past and some time later had to work on it again and those stiffner pieces just came off. What a slap...no glue seems to work and to get it back again...a nightmare. Thanks for sharing all the tricks of the trade with us.
Interesting indeed about those Allsop wet video head cleaners. Any thoughts if they were as bad on cassette deck heads? I have a tape deck where the door doesn't remove for cleaning, and I cannot clean the pinch roller/capstan very well without using a wet type cleaner. Greetings from Newfoundland!
Cassette cleaners completely different. Just a wet pad that rubs the head and capstan / pinch roller. Video cleaner a wet tape that is pulled out and wrapped around a spinning head.
I have a TRV308 and a TRV330 Digital8 as well as a TRV900 with matching GV D900. Also a few DVD HDD camcorders and the HDR HC3 I got recently. My oddest one I still use it occasionally is the CCD-SC55 Video8 now that's a weird mechanism going on there...
What about dielectric grease? Might that prevent oxidation? Same for mode-select switches in VCRs.
It's taken 20 years to act up. It will last another 20. No dielectric grease made no different. That's what we used and some came back within a year.
I scored a 42" Plasma at an estate sale recently. Comparing it to my OLED other than the OLEDs far better resolution the pictures are really similair, at least viewed head on. Is it worth it to take off the back and check the screws if it's working or do i just wait until i hear the humming get loud?
Lots of plasma sets here
Tighten the screws, check the box caps on the power transformer for bad solder. If you wait till it pops it may be too late. I need to do my plasma in the studio as it shuts off once in awhile.
Want to hear something funny? I thought boxing day was about the sport involving gloves. It was just about a decade ago I found out what it was really about.
Great video, I like camcorder repairs.
Well it was originally the day you took all the boxes that Xmas gifts cane in and disposed them or in the case of my childhood burned them in a fire pit in the back yard.
My digital 8 is not charging, if i plug in the charger the charging yellow light goes on for less than a second and then goes off.
I tried to charge the battery but the same thing happens, what do you think the problem is?
Battery fault. There us a chip in the battery where it checks the cell health. If the battery was left on the camera in storage it will have over discharged and not it will not charge again. Never leave the battery in camera when not in use. I ruined a few years ago doing that. Make that expensive mistake only once.
@@12voltvids oh my god, so my camera would not charge again?
@@f8mh634 not with a bad battery it won't. Need a new battery and these days they are getting expensive depending on the battery.
I still have a Sony CCD-TRV26E with extended battery and a fish-eye lens attachment, I paid £3 for it, it does work but the mech is clacky and the noise is recorded to the tape.
I got 2 dcrtrv730 and 2 dcrtrv240 for free.
@@12voltvids Nice
I am curious if those bad flex connectors is why my old trv-260 started having issues..it started having worse and worse video playback issues..It would also randomly stop the tape deck and flash some error icon on the screen..I had tried cleaning the heads and it never got better. Then the power connector failed and back then I had no job or money to replace it so it was put in storage. No idea where the camera is now it was put in the garage and vanished at some point.
Another sony camera recovered, happy customer.
Sony must have known the connectors would fail, maybe they are shit on purpose.
Designed to fail, shame on them.
No they didn't know. Much had to do with storage. Camera bags caused it. The nylon abd other materials off gassing in the camera bag with the camera zipped up inside perfect conditions for metal contacts getting attacked. Same type connectors used in other components like stereo gear, computers, phones, CD players. They didn't act up. My cameras haven't had the failure. Mine are not stored in camera bag they sit on a shelf. Open a camera bag and give it a whiff and smell the off gassing from the materials in the bag.
That bird didn't stand a chance. 🐦
It lived
You are the fifth Fantastic
I see that youtube is silencing you as well, the intro "oh crap" is gone
That was just a clip, no voice over on that clip. It was also cropped.
Also people returning gifts that are not working!
They don't take returns till January.