Another awsome vid from 12 voltvids. Thankyou for the detailed repair video, always so interesting to watch you disect, repair and re-assemble older tech. Thankyou for sharing.
Super nice video. thnx. Im learning more and more. Finally fixed 2 mode switch problems my self and im ferling real proud. This VCR looks like a new kind of scary sinve it needs soldering, wich i never got the hang of 🙄 I will put my Panasonic VCRs in the bottom of the pile 🤣
Just done a similar Panasonic VCR doing very strange things! like yours, removal & cleaning the mode switch got it sorted. I did not have a problem with the IC, but thanks for mentioning it, will bear it in mind if the machine plays up in the future.
I enjoy the repitition of watching you taking the machine apart. The tricks of the trade that you know. I need to find a good Oscilliscope, too. I've got to find out who out there has the belts. I know someone has got a hoard of them somewhere. I really hope all the VCRs aren't all going to the landfills. There are still many many tapes out there that are still good to play. I have at least five hundred of them and I want to buy more. I've got four machines that I have to repair. Most are just tape eating problems. You've given me hope for my machines.
I'm impressed there are still working VCRs and something watchable on the tapes. The minute gear came out with a hard drive in it i think it took about year before all VCRs disappeared from the stores in my country.
Panasonic stopped selling VHS machines in 2012, I think by then their only ones were VHS/DVD combi ones. The last non-brandname cheapo VHS machines disappeared in 2016. Meanwhile new VHS cassettes are not being made any more. Unused stock VHS tapes can still be found on ebay, the prices for which are rising because the market is drying up. You can obviously buy used VHS machines on ebay too. I've got 7 Panasonic VHS HiFi machines in stock in my cellar so I can continue playing my old recordings for decades. :) Including an S-VHS and two multi standard NV-W1.
why not convert them to digital ? using a USB capture card for PC , but you need a PC that at most is windows 7 to be sure or find a DVD recorder that stil works and connect it to VHS machine , then you can throw the tapes in the garbage and the VCR machines at ebay
Nice video as always. Part of the "Fugitive" movie was filmed in Massac County, Illinois, just a few miles from our house. The fuselage of the plane is submerged Mermet Lake, about 8 miles from my house.
I got 3 Panasonic NV f55 from 1992 the workings one has played a million tapes by the looks of it, the other 2 I need to make into one broken loading mech on one and faulty gears on the other side got a new mode switch but need to strip the good drive mech and re align all gears , there are both UK and us video's on RU-vid to service just going to take me ages to copy the steps In the videos.
Wiz kid as usual. lol. Enjoyed the vid. I've got the Panasonic DVD VCR combo. I fixed the mode switch once,, it worked a pretty long time afterwards,, now the power started dragging down when I'd start a tape or put one in...and it would shut down then I would start it up again and it would run. Weird. I've got to look at it again when I've got time, the DVD part doesn't load half the time and it just sits there and tries, then it'll just say error, no tape or sometimes it'll load and play. I'm working on a old Holms Guitar Amp now, new elecrolytic capacitors, it needed a matching pair of output power BJTs they were off , it didn't have speakers so I just got those in. They look pretty good. 2, 10 inch spkers with a silver cone, black dust cover and black cloth surround ... Looks good through the grill cloth :)). My bench is getting full. I'm rambling. Thanks for the vid.
Ahh that's a good place for that diddy monitor :-D. Some tape recorder rec/play mode switches don't respond to cleaning sprays, a full dissasemble/clean is the only way i've found works. Always the contacts are black.
Diminutive indeed. I have no idea how Dave can even see such a small display (it'd have basically no detail when it's that small, as was shown in the vid).
Colton Rushton, It's a novelty and a cute example of how small they could make crt's :-D Some people think old tech is rubbish, but the old crt's lasted a very loooooong time. Modern displays don't last so well, they eather fail early or the next wizz bang version is on the horizon to be sold to us, Again and again....
@@zx8401ztv Agree. They're more durable than their successors ever will be, but they sacrifice detail at such a low size. Sure, it's a novelty, but you can tell in the vid that almost no detail can be made out from within the small screen.
MMmmm smoker's mecha state! "oh vhs looks bad" - LOL! It won't look so bad on that little crt! Use your home theater speakers with it maybe. I fixed a vcr like that (older emerson version I think) for a relative back in 1994. Needed a belt and the guy at the local shop showed me what to do, he said all of the same things except maybe the re-soldering. I the machine also had a broken cassette mechanism, drive gear would slip on the sliding rack gear in the cassette loader. I ended up jamming something in there to press the plastic frame of the cassette loader toward the drive gear to get it working but it really needed a better fix and I didn't know back then.
I still have a vcr/dvd player combo unit my mom gave me for Christmas in 2002. Haven't used it in a long time, mostly have tapes with camcorder recordings on it. I have to find some time to get that out and transfer them to the computer. Most of the tapes are unmarked. Too lazy I guess to write on a sticker and slap it on the tape!
Great video...thank you...can you please discuss that special technique you used to "desoulder" the mode switch...that was realty really cool how and why u did it this way....!!! Many Thanks!!!! PS luv that ole school Casio watch!!!!!!!!
Years ago I had 2 nv730 machines from 1985 superb reliable machines 1 I lent to a mate when it stopped playing correct he messed about with all the guides only fault was a failed tension band but was to late all our of alignment. My second machine my mum and dad wrecked pepper anoyyed at the time, I will never lend electronics items again .
Just had a thought about your wee monochrome monitor. Find a small piece of that flat Fresnel Lens type sheet plastic and pop it infront for a "Better experience", just like they had in the dystopian scifi 1985 movie "Brazil"... !
see where is Vertical signal controller for vertical blank interval (VBI)problems on VCR where will be situated or what would it look like it would be helpful. picture jitters on pause
I would love to see an LED flat panel opened, disassembled and closed up again. Looks like they are closed up with a press. My panel has a section of intermittent backlights in one corner.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bPGkPrhBvBo.html There you go. Already did that. The panels are not that difficult to open up. I have done 2 of them.
Dave, do you know where the mode switch is located in a JVC HDR-142? Could it be that is not a mechanical mode switch, but an optic one that uses a system similar to that you find in a PC mouse? Because I don't seem to find anything that looks like a mode switch in this model. Although I guess that if it was optical, it wouldn't need cleaning. Thank you.
No don't know the mechanism by model number. Some early JVC did use optical sensors on the cam gear. Others used a linear (slide) switch under the circuit board on the bottom of mechanism which requires removal of reel drive motor to access. Optical units do fail. The led gets weak and doesn't detect the transition.
hey do you have any panasonic topload VCR videos? I've got this cool PV-1230 here I want to get apart to service it and super confused. I can only get at one belt on the bottom, the rest of everything is covered up by the giant motherboard and I have every screw out but there is a transformer and other shananigans in the way. I've worked on a similar one before but this ones got me stumped. I know I sould have no problem getting at the idler which has turned to crust I just need to remove the top silvere piece and the tape door.
Hi I have a JVC HR-S860 SVHS VCR as soon as I insert a tape the VCR powers off, I have noticed there's a 250V/T2AL blow fuse on the powerboard could that be blown, or could the issue be with the mode switch, sometimes the VCR rewinds the tape on by itself even if no button has been pressed, please advise, Thanks
I bought a vcr online. it was working for a bit, I opened it up to clean the head cylinder but now it doesn't work anymore and keep eating the tape. I only cleaned the head and the other little rollers standing up close to the head. what can I do to fix it. Can I send you a video of it. See if you seen this problem before?
For 8mm / hi8 I would pick one of the digital 8 models that have analog playback. Most did but a few were digital only. These all ha e built in tbc and will output a DV signal over FireWire so a FireWire interface is all that is needed. For vhs I would go with a late model. The older ones are usually worn out. I use Toshiba dvr7 for standard VHS and a JVC hrs9911 for svhs. The dvr7 is a DVD recorder / VHS combo. Tapes straight to DVD or into a closer alliance pro to be captured to .mp4 directly.
Love the videos! very knowledgeable its refreshing compared to other videos. What is the name of the pure cleaner is that red contact cleaner? Thanks again I have a DVD Emerson combo VCR that eats tapes that I am going to check out. It feeds the tape in then shuts back down leaving the tape. Then when you eject the tape gets caught. I'm going to be transferring some tapes to DVD.
@12voltvids Do you happen to know what the cause of extremely weak(even with the TV all the way up) audio on the first generation, Panasonic made, top loading VHS VCRs like the RCA badged VCT-200?
Do you know why Panasonic used slightly different mechanisms and chassis on American models than the rest of the world? This one looks like the K chassis of the European models from the same era, but it's slightly different. No aluminium die-cast chassis, no toothed belt etc...
Loading belts very rarely go bad on these. It's not that the unit is going back into service, and if I sell it I will get perhaps 10 for it, so why put a 5.00 belt into a machine that is worth 10 max
Sony SLV-N55. As I was cleaning the heads, "somehow" I broke a piece that has a tape guide attached to a white plastic "flag". Somehow, it sits down in a hole and you rotate it to lock it in place. I just bought three other same model VCR's for parts and just cannot figure out how to pull that tape guide piece out without breaking off that delicate locking tab. Do I have to go underneath the chassis and remove that big pulley that has the rubber belt on it? If so, how do I remove THAT pulley, too. I'm so used to being able to buy repair manuals for any car or truck I've ever owned but Sony just doesn't sell them for their products. Even their repair manual doesn't have a good picture of it. I think it is the Guide Cassette Door & Hook which is right next to the Lever Unit Pinch Assembly. Who the hell made up those names? So, any ideas on how to get that Guide Cassette Door & Hook Assy out?
Dave, I just started testing a PV-S4167. Supposedly it's an S-VHS machine. Turns on, loads tape fine. Plays tape. There's some green spots that appear on the screen regardless of the tape. Is this likely caused by bad caps? I see all of these extra little PCBs sticking up from the main PCBs and wires everywhere. Did they just take a standard VHS machine and add a bunch of modules to make it "SVHS"? Never seen anything like it. Not sure if I even want to attempt to repair it.
PV-S was a super vhs, and yes basically the machine is the same (different head gap on the drum for the higher frequencies required) but you are basically correct, the Hi-Band circuits were on modules that were added to the boards on the svhs models. That is so they could use a standard run board, to keep costs down.
Does anyone know if any of the VCR repair guys here on RU-vid will answer some repair questions? I know time is valuable, so I would try to make it as quick as possible. I'm trying to learn a few things about repairing these beasts. I have about 15 of them and want to avoid having to trash them. They need to live on!...lol.
@@12voltvids hey that's great! Just got back in from the garage. Did my first disassembly and it's a JVC HR-6900U. No audio, so I tore it down and it has cracked solder joints where the 2 RCA jacks are soldered to the board. Looks like I'm going to have to desolder the mode switch too. There's no use putting this back together (or trying...lol) and not cleaning the switch. My questions were about the audio, but I'm sure I will have others. I have about 15 VCR's and 20 or so 8mm, HI8 and digital cameras also. I even have one of those old Magnavox Movie Maker VHS jobs. It's an SVHS with S-Video in and out. It's in decent cosmetic shape, but when I got it, it had been taken apart and they did a half-a** job putting it back together. With power hooked up to it, and I slide the power button over, I have to hold it there for anything to happen. And all that happens is you can faintly hear a motor turning, that's it. Then as soon as you let off the power switch, it stops. Same with the eject button. Hold it down and motor turns, let off and it stops. I'm going to really try to get it going, because I think it's really cool to have S-Video in and out on an old SVHS camera. It's the little things that hold my attention...lol.
Would I be right in thinking that VCRs turned to garbage around the time that they also started making them in silver finish? It seems this way to me anyway...
HDFXH, yes you have a valid point there. However, even the standalone machines made by the likes of Sony and Panasonic were also becoming cheap and nasty.
Hi, I have an AIWA vhs pal/ntsc player, when I plug it to the power supply, it turns on for few seconds and making a weird noise then turns into sleeping mode. Now I have a very important tape stuck inside but none of the buttons seems to work. Do you have any suggestion to troubleshoot or would you able to help me fixing it?
Austin the VHS/Video game lover 05 05 03 McCoy Cleaner like nitro, deoxit, ext. You can use 99 % iPa but you will have to put a lubricant on. Contact cleaners have this.
I have several different types of Deoxit D-5, D-100, D-25 and G. Little bit pissed at that company now in case you didn't notice the last video where their name was taped over.
