Well done, someone will be very happy to transfer there tapes :-D Yep those ribbon connectors are in all sorts of equipment. Apart from the corrosion there are dents in the ribbon where the connector pins sat. Sometimes i've been able to push the dents out and it works, other times i trim the end off the ribbon so the connector pins sit on a different part of the conductive strips. Bodgy yes, but the pressure on the connection is back and no corrosion. Plastic moulded bands were a pain in the arse on philips car radio/cassette players of millions of years ago. The band around both flywheels always cracked/snapped, stupid design :-(
We have a Sony CCD TR-44 that was working as we we trying to watch tapes, until it tried to eat a tape. Now the drum just spins and spins and then the unit reopens. Were thinking we might send it to you if you were interested in repairing it and reselling it. Please let us know if you are interested.
@@NossyDrelich I don't use ebay as I had a bad experience with a buyer many years ago that I will not go into details about, and I am not on facebook. I sell most to viewers right here on the channel. They get to see the unit repaired and working so they know what has been done and know that it is working.
@@12voltvids ok that makes sense, and that's a smart idea! How much are you selling it for? Also do you fix Hitachi camcorders? I have a broken one that also plays 8mm that you may like.
Hey Mon Ami , Great video as always , I got a jvc gr-d750u that keeps giving me a error code or 2 .... Safeguard mode and want's me to eject the tape or take the battery out , Even when a tape is not in there .... Maybe a connection issue ??? ......... I don't really want record tapes on it , since it has a pretty good picture on the screen .... Can I use this unit as a camera only when I go live on my channel ??? I am subscribed to you on both of my You Tube channels BTW ..... I also have a few friends in your area that watches your channel also .... Darren Lowe is a musician in your area , great bass player BTW...
It was done by desgin, "fuse gear" ... LOL I was told that on the gears of the Technics low end RSTR deck when complaining ot an authorized dealer and service shop (for Panasonic) .... fuse gear .....
Can I use my JVC GR-D750U as a camera only when I go live on my streams , as in hooking the A/V plug to a USB cord going in my PC or laptop ????............ I do a lot of live streams on my coin channel... I am not camera savvy with PC's , Merci for any info and input ....
You can probably do it if your capture card outputs the correct format for streaming. I have never streamed anything live. I am sure it wouldn't be hard to do, but it is something I have never had much interest in doing. I like to edit first.
@@NossyDrelich well as I said I started out hanging out at the neighbor's place when I was a kid picking up what I could. I studied electronics in school but did not go to university for electronics as by the time I finished high school I really didn't have an interest in pursuing your career in electronic repair. I took TV production instead. I had worked at a TV shop while in school and I've learned lots on the job from the engineer that ran that shop he taught me a lot I actually completed an apprenticeship at that shop. When I work for Sony they put me through their factory training course special high intensity training or shit for short. Spent several months just studying betamax inside and out. then when I went to work at the service department that I worked at I took constant courses every couple of months I was sent to factory training seminars where we did a lot of theory and Hands-On. I actually filmed one of the betamax courses and put the theory part on my channel if you look it up it was pretty dry and pretty boring but we did get hands on in the classroom. This continued constantly the entire time that I was in the business, manufacturers would put on seminars for all the new products that they launched and we would get hands on to play with them create faults troubleshoot and they highlighted all of their new technologies drilled it into our brains and tested us to make sure that we learned what the instructors were teaching us. Make no mistake the training I got well in the business was no different than anyone taking an electrical engineering course we had to do calculations measure waveforms and figure out how these devices work down to component level. In many cases this is even more difficult than designing something because an engineer designing a circuit knows how it's going to behave, and engineer troubleshooting doesn't know how it's going to behave when there's a defective part in the circuit that throws everything out of balance so it can make troubleshooting very challenging. These days I won't even bother to try to troubleshoot to component level because the modern equipment has gotten so complex, but in the analog days things were much simpler you could look at an input look at an output and you knew what to expect based on how the circuit was supposed to operate. I'm glad to be out of the business as today devices are so complex that you just can't repair most of them.
@@12voltvids Very interesting insight! Thanks for all of that info, that was very interesting to learn.Those were the days where you could get places just with a good work ethic and willingness to learn. Today you need 100 degrees, 200 references, and 300 years of experience, before you even get a call back! Where do you sell these when you're done? I have a digitizing business and am always on the lookout for these.
I get them as donations from viewers as their way of supporting the channel. They are mine to sell when repairable. This one came from the guy that brought me his tape deck that was thrown from a truck!
@@12voltvids well, let me know when you do, I'd be happy to check your inventory. I think you could also advertise your services as a tech and fix stuff for a fee, I think many would be interested.
@@NossyDrelich I just sold 2 8mm cameras this past month. Have 1 more ready to go. I do get paid work all the time. Just did an 8mm camera and another one came in today.
@@NossyDrelich I used to do them all, but these days mainly Sony. I avoid the VHS-C cameras like the plague. They are just not worth the hassle. The only reason I work on 8mm and hi8 cameras is so people can play their old tapes to archive them, and this is not required with VHSc. Just go get an adapter and play them in a VCR
