A few months ago I found a Blaupunkt RTV-316 (Panasonic NV-G7) from 1986 in the garbage and it had beer spilled into it and the head drum was corroded as hell. After taking it completely apart for cleaning like you did, it worked. Good old Panasonic D1 decks...
So THAT'S why the whirring sounds so bloody familiar to me. I used to own a different model VHS, a Blaupunkt Hifi deck. And many of the noises this Omnivision model makes sound eerily familiar to that model. So knowing now that many Blaupunkt VHS decks were pretty much rebadged Panasonic decks has now basically made me a guy, who's had nothing but Panasonic units for my VHS needs.
@@pHD77 Yes. All Blaupunkt VHS VCRs were rebadged Panasonics, at least those from the late 70s up to somewhere in the 90s. When you come across a VCR from the mid 80s, you can tell if it's a Panasonic-made by hearing the noise of the motor during fast forward and rewind. Panasonic D1 decks have a very distinctive FF/REW sound. :)
I have a GE 9-7500 built by Panasonic and the mechanism sounds exactly the same, the design is quite similar to those Panasonics you showed at the beginning of the video. I bet my GE is just a rebranded Panasonic. 21:13 holy crap! The remote for my GE is exactly the same as that on but in black!
Thank you for posting this. I always look forward to your videos. I knew Goldstar, Funai and Samsung made VCPs. I had no idea that Panasonic made one too. Oh man, it had that switching power supply issue that I told you about a few months ago. That was so common in 1986/1987 Panasonic decks. Can I see a video about the massive 1985 JVC that is on the bottom at some point? Thank you in advance.
Yeah, though it's different from the portables of the earl 80s that had a battery and could record. This one seems like it was meant as a 2nd VCR (kids room, cottage, etc) or as a rental unit for stores to rent out to people.
I have a Philips 6443 from 1989. Visually its in great physical condition. I opened the cabinet and its looks VERY clean. But when I put a VHS in, the rewind is slow, the forward is slow and when i press play, the spools drag the tape half way, and cant go any further, and tries a bit, then the VCR goes to standby. (maybe a protect mode)? I was looking for grease and its looks empty...whatever is there is dry completely. Is that the reason? from 2 decades or so of no use? I dont hear any bad noise or anything...just seems like the VCR struggling to rewind, forward and play. The head spins effortlessly however.
Did you try to see what happens when you press "record" on the mostly compatable remote? Even with no AV inputs or tuner, it might still have enough of the circutry* and firmware programming to cause the heads to try to record something on tape, provided that the contacts on the board where the tab sensor connects on a recording model is shorted Just don't try it on a tape that's valuable to you because it will mess up the recording already on tape. *It's likely that some of the record circutry is in there because companies often use the same board and mechanisms for several different models. I had a circa 1993 RCA vcr which was a basic two head monural model. There was also another VCR in that same line (same style case, etc) that was 4 head with Hi-Fi stereo. Both had remotes that were almost identical except on my model, the frame advance (F-ADV) button was missing and there was blank plastic wherr the button would've been. Curious, I opened the remote, and discovered that the contacts for F-ADV were still there. So I 'stole' a rubber contact button from another device, tried the F-ADV, and amazingly it worked. Well, sort of; It worked fine on tapes recorded in SLP, but not so well on SP, as two head VCRs don't freeze frame well in that mode. But it was still 100% functional. Here is the remote I'm talking about (with F-ADV) www.ebay.com/itm/143913846504
Nope, this appears to be a stripped down chassis. Not only does record do nothing from the remote, but pause also does nothing. I would love to know what the original remote looked like, because it probably only had 5, maybe 6 buttons.
Check the power supply. It's a very simple one (12v dc only). If your don't see 12v then there's a good chance capacitors will fix it, or just wire in an external 12v power adapter.
@@probnotstech Interesting, thanks! I wasn't sure what voltage to check for so that's great info. I'm hearing coil whine from the transformer in there (okay more like coil "hiss" to my damaged ears) so at least part of it is working (I was really hoping it was just a blown fuse, but alas). Such a neat little machine and it's so weird that yours is literally the only other example I've seen online.
