Thanks for another great video. Such an easy repair. I wish all the repairs were that simple. I did the same thing on a recently acquired D8 camcorder. I didn't have to dissasemble anything. The missaligment was not that big of a deal. It was just noticeable in the last few lines of the image, at the very bottom of the screen. A little tweak on the exit guide with the cassette compartment in the open position and voilà. Didn't even have to monitor the image on the screen. I would keep that camera for parts... a mono 8mm camera without tbc/dnr... doesn't have any resale value. There are better options to digitize your tapes.
I know you love the pain of repairing camcorders with leaking dead capacitors everywhere :) But no joy for you this time, a simple job and it's spot on ! Joking of cause :-D
If i had the todays knowledge back in the years that i owned the repair shop all the unrepaired stuff that thrown away might had been fixed bringing money rather than waisted job hours and transportations for nothing.
Get job on the videos. I have a Sony CCD-TR7 after I insert the tape it tries to run but stops. Then I see a red caution light on so I eject the tape. Have you come across this before? Plus did I hear you do tape transfers, just in case I can't gets this old bird to work. Or do you still have any for sale. Thanks and once again great job.
I still have my dad's TR330. It got killed by overvoltage a long time ago and never worked again, even after jumping the fuse. It just displays garbage on the viewfinder and beeps. So, what could've happened to it? The Sony technician said it was beyond repair.
I really enjoy watching you take this stuff apart. I think that i still have one of these old camcorders somewhere. At what year did they start putting the "good" capacitors in them?
I was given one of these by an uncle, and he said it didn't work, however, I plugged in the charger, I got no power, but then I pushed the battery charger further in, and boom, it powered on, and the rest of the time, I recorded the rest of my trip to Mexico with my ccd-tr54 and my panasonic pv-l353.
The alignment was probably not good for recording on your tape. If you were trying to record and play back on a new tape with the old alignment, I think the recording would have been OK.
The recordings made with this camera would play just fine with this camera but the problem arises when you try to play that tape on another camera/vtr. It doesn't make any sense having a camcorder that can't play back tapes recorded with other camcorders and which tapes are not playable on other equipment.
hello, your videos are very useful. I would have two question regarding the heads. I have found some heads make a very loud mechanical noise while spinning, is there any change to open and grease them ? . Second question: NTSC and PAL camcorders have the same identic head or it is different?
No, the bearing is sealed. If you were able to take it apart it would never work. Eventually it will seize up. Ntsc and pal heads were the same. They spin different speeds.
I just bought one of these cameras from my local thrift for 5$ it turns on and everything works it’s in awesome shape except you can’t see picture through the lens just a little white line and it moves when you open up the tape. Just wondering if you know what might be wrong thank you so much I would love to hear back
It would be better to ask what isn't wrong with it. Pretty much everything. Bad surface mount caps that will have leaked their corossive cap juice all over the board and damaged it.
By any chance do you know how to fix a camera who only shows a blank white screen while playing a cassette and you can only hear the audio? This is driving me crazy!
Probably could depending on what is wrong. I am pretty good at troubleshooting as you will see with the next video, a betamax with 3 totally unrelated faults. The only decision i need make is should it be 2 shorter videos or a single long video.
If the picture is good, capacitors are bad on the audio board. The audio board is the little one at the front beside the lens in behind the front casing. It plugs into the main board.
Good morning, I have the same camera, my problem is that the camera does not play tapes, only the audio, the viewfinder looks black on the screen and when connected to the TV it also looks black and only plays the audio. I tried to do what you do in the video but got no result.
hypothetically if someone hooked up one of these camera's battery "6v" contacts up to a power supply or lithium cell in reversed, providing negative 6.5 volts for a moment, how f***ed is the camera? Would fuses potentially short and sacrifice themselves, or is that something that the power distribution board is simply not designed to deal with?
@@12voltvids thanks. my idea is to connect the camcorder ton a digital recorder for remplace te tape recorder. but no video out for that. it's complicate to install a video out after the sensor ? or before the recorder ? it's just an idea ^^thanks
@@oliviertresson7662 even if you could you wouldn't want to. Those old CCD chips were bloody horrible. They were low rez and needed a ton of light to see anything.
