Samsung VCR Repair Tape Stuck Will not Eject 

Such a life saver 11 years later but still a hero... Thank you so much

I was about to smash my old machine with a hammer like an idiot. I’m so happy I came across this tutorial! You just saved a 30+yr old home video of my grandmother and other deceased family members. This is the only recording I have of them. I can finally see them again. Thank you for the tutorial!!!

I almost had to break it just to get it out. Good thing I found your tutorial. It worked perfectly. The tape that was saved had very sentimental memories. Thank you so much!!

Thanks for this tutorial; it's great! I have a suggestion if you're having a hard time getting the spiral worm gear to turn. I used my needle-nosed pliers to turn the gear that the spiral worm is attached to. I didn't force it, but with a few firm turns I was able to get the carriage to rise. I found out that one side of the cart flap had come loose, which is probably why it wouldn't eject. Fortunately for me it was an old movie, so I didn't lose any personal treasures. On another note, I'm so glad to see I'm not the only one who still has videotapes. 🙂

Thanks~My granddaughter and I just used your tutorial to remove a tape and now the machine is working! Strong victory for an 8 year old.

Thank you so much for the tutorial, if anyone is having issue with Samsung sv-a120m the gear you need to turn is a big white one below the cassette you'll need to put a little bit of force to turn it but it will unjam your vhs in no time.

Oh my goodness thank you so very much I had this player for like 23 years and you just saved my nostalgia lol mine was stuck due to a damaged VHS tape 📼 (that I didn't realize was damaged) not the player itself!!! Bless you!!!

Thank you sir! I watched three other videos before yours and was about to give up & throw a Multi-System world wide VCR that cost a fortune in the 90's away. I took a pause and looked how much a used one is 400 to 700 dollars & if you could find one new, they were outrageously priced, 1,000 + ! Thank God I found your video! My spiral arm is up & down and I could barely turn it with my pinky finger but it worked, it slowly backed the tape out. I think I'm just going to find somewhere and them service & clean it before I put any tape in it again thanks again!

This was a very short, informative video. Thank you for posting! And the lettering was just fine LOL; ignore those tense people. Still, I couldn't access my white worm gear...most of it was under the stuck VHS tape. I saw an article "Removing a Stuck VHS Tape" on a site called tgrantphoto that showed how some VCRs let you unscrew them from the bottom, and you can turn the worm gear by rotating the shaft next to it and the motor with a 1/16" flathead. That might work for some of you. But not me!! I couldn't get the bottom off; there were no screws, except for the ones under the circuitry. So all I did was remove the stuck tape from the VHS by hand. Then I hit eject and saw some was still stuck. I maneuvered that off somehow, hit eject again, and FINALLY It's a Wonderful Life came out. My situation was basically like a paper jam with a printer. Once the jam was out, the VCR worked great! My apologies for the long comment, but jammed VCRs are so frustrating that I felt the need to post multiple solutions.

Wow, this was so easy and worked perfectly and you saved my videotape of my newborn son. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Thanks so much. I've had a VCR with a stuck tape a while--oddly enough, it was almost new when it ate the tape. I've debated taking it to a repair person, and with VCRs becoming more rare and expensive these days, I almost did. Now I am (very carefully) going to try to do it myself, given I am reasonably adept. Re: the print in the video--it might be best to reduce it in size and delete the ornate effects--relatively trivial, but it would make it a little better to watch. Again, thanks!

Perfect and fast. I also had to give my tape a little tug where I saw it wouldn't raise up above a little pole on the right. Then it came right out. Must have been a safety feature. Thanks again!

thankyou so much for making this video you have saved my 2nd birthday tape that has so many memories of my grandmum i am so grateful to you for having made this clip it helped so much truly a great person

Thanks Leonard, besides the annoying words flying around the screen this method worked for me. Needed wind the worm gear down so the heads moved towards the tape then needed to wobble the tape to help enable the gear to move more so the tape would be ejected

Thanks! I used it to get out a tape that wouldn't eject. Although the cog system had no spiral, it was easy to apply the method to mine. Slowly, the large wheel turned, the tape-housing rose and I took off the sticky tape and pushed out the offending casing. The tape was wrecked, but it was deliberately chosen as it had no value, particularly, in testing the old machine. The next tape was almost as dispensible, but it worked well. Now, just spitting TV interference remains!

Thanx a lot! Firstly I cranket it rightways, nothing happened, but leftways it worked as a dream!

Had an old Sony VHS player which had a tape stuck and this video really helped - Thanks.

Very good. One thing that would help people turn the motor in the right direction is to watch the two pins that actually pull the tapr onto the heads. These will normally be stuck in the outward position holding the tape onto the heads. When you get the right direction the pind start moving towards the casstte tape and when they are level with the front of the cassette the cassette should come out

This was a big help and saved an old family videotape! Thank you!

Thanks for this. I eased out my tape by turning the spiral as shown (this was on a Sanyo) I have to say the nifty effect with the letters was a distraction but you helped me to get the job done so thanks again

Thank you very much 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍,short vedio straight to the target 🎯,no bla bla........

Hey, thanks for the tutorial! Saved one of my wife's favorite tapes because of you!

Thanks my man! The worm gear trick made all the difference for me!

Thank you so much this truly helped me! And saved my family tape!

Thankyou so much for this video....tried it and it worked!!!

Nice video. Unfortunately mine is not Samsung but I do see the spiral thingy in there and it does funny thing (wrapping tape around drum instead of ejecting the tape). So I ended up tearing my entire VCR apart and safely removed the tape. My VCR was about 10 year-old. It's time to go otherwise it will eat other tape even if I fix it.

This was a fabulous video and saved me lots of time and agony!!!!

For me the spindle gets stuck and doesn't turn any further

Useful thank you for the title special effects!

if its a bit damaged dont throw it away, its just a little bit, and it really depends on how you handle the tape

Useful video. Find the floating texts annoying and distracting.

This helped a little. My tapes come out but the tape itself is stuck in the VCR. I can get it loose, but it keeps happening.

Useful, but please spare us from the titles special effects: totally unneeded!

8 years later, thanks for this! I got a VHS-C adapter out of a dead VHS player.

I have the Sharp VC-965. That gear will NOT turn. So the tape is still stuck.

Have a VHS built into my AKAI TV-I have the tape out-however the VHS will not shut down-TV will not shut off. Any ideas?

Wow thank you! Great tutorial 👌

I have to fix my VCR player since it won't eject the tape and I think it may be the pulley belt which is small. If it is broken I will have to look for replacement parts if that is the case or the heads may need cleaning otherwise. Thanks for sharing this information.

You have to move some belts to also save the tape

Unfortunately I didn't see this before removing the tape my self. Didn't wind the gear but managed to encourage (force) the tape out without anything seeming to break. I must have sprained something though because now every tape ejects as soon as it is put in! Any helpful suggestions re how to fix this would be gratefully received!

If tape is damaged, simple open vhs cassette (remove screws) careful careful, take of cover without spilling tape, cut diagonally out the bad section, splice tape with scotch tape, its fixed, done !

What was the purpose of the scotch? Because after you still crush the tape with the lid.

Thanks this saved my tape and several trips n money to the repair shop. Woo Hoo.

if tape is ruined, don't discard it, you can splice it. look on u-tube for splicing tapes. you will lose a few frames.

Trying to fix this too. Very informative. Thank for sharing. Much Blessings to you. 🙏 Lord-Jesus-Christ ✝c✝o✝m

This was very helpful. thank you.

which way do you turn the spiral worm gear

My Hitachi VRC/DVD player will not eject the VHS tape ..I push the on button and the player comes on for about 20 to 30 sec then turns itself off any suggestions ? ?

Thank you very much it helps a lots!

thanks for the share, any chance of how to rebuild the assembly for the tape transit please? samsung general vcr would be helpful, thanks in advance.

I remember one time I was having some issue with the Emerson VCR and when I try to turn the power button on, it keeps turning it off by itself and I don't know how to do it. Can you help me? Please advice me what to do next?

Thank you for the info. My tapes won't work they just tangle up so will try this.

Thank you, thank you thank you. It actually worked!

Thank you for this support

Worked! Thanks Very Much!!!

Which way did you spin the spiral thing?? And there's this cylinder shaped thing blocking the spiral.

This video will help me to fix 2 of my vcr. i have a tv vcr combo bur door doesnt open. can be sleep mode or timer mode? hope you can make a video about vcr stuck door

was helpful, got the tape out thanks

Thank you so much this helped out a lot

Thanks, it's use full

Thank you so much bro

THANK YOU!!!

looked like it was gonna be a good vid, but the way you did the lettering was really annoying i gave up on you video. next time just talk it through and don't get artsy with the words please.

I tried to move that spin gear but it was to hard, strangely enough after opening the vhs and pushing the eject button a few times it actually ejected the videotape.... go figure.

Tank you so much

Lassie aint wanting to come home.

It works! tks

Okay, that's handy to know. But, what if the root cause isn't dirty connections? What would be the cause then?

That was really helpful. Thanks a lot!

You saved my casette!

Thanks for posting...helped me out of a real jam (pun intended) :-)

what is the root cause of a vcr that doesn't eject tapes?

Yeah! it works! thanks

Thanks for the video! (Your titles were good but the special effect was extremely annoying...)

Thank you.

What's the name of the vhs tape?

I cant turn the gears manuelly why is taht?

I learn something new,thank.I want to know how you did that with the words.

it works thx

Thanks

Thanks you!,

Lassie. Nice.

will this work with Sharp VC-H956

On my DVD-V6700 i can remove the front panel and i can turn the capstan belt and rewind the tape into the cassette

the fucking words drove me nuts

I think it's lassie

I'm not usually critical when someone is helping me, but as an educator and a desk top publisher, the method used to put the text on the screen is not at all good. It's too slow and very distracting. Looks like someone was trying to impress with the effects and it backfired. Please use a simple method.

THE TEXT IS VERY DISTURBING ANS OBTRUSIVE

Instead of using this awful text maybe USE YOUR MOUTH AND SPEAK.

भाई साहब अपना नबर दे दो

Are you a mute? People should actually speak when doing these troubleshooting videos. Much easier to understand...

Next time do the talk so much.

THANK YOU !!!!!

Thank you so much!