That hard to find drive belt for Philips N1502, N1700 VCR machines. 

Thanks for your helpful, informative videos Colin. In case any of your viewers need that head drum drive belt, here is the link: gbaudioshop.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=536

Class. Another Super job . Philips the N1500 N1502, N1700 and V2000 Range of vtr,s With the rest ,The Boys at Phillips worked hard on the formats. When right They work very well....loving your stuff... Happy NEW year....

Hi Colin great video

I have never owned one of these so find this fascinating (specially the chunky cassettes!) Have only ever had VHS from day one as we didn’t have a video in our house at all before 1984 when I was 8! But I did know someone with a Betamax and to be fair those owners have had the last laugh when it comes to quality, as when old advert uploads appear on YT the picture and sound have stood the test of time on Betamax whilst VHS uploads have bad sound and dreadful drop outs on the picture in general really meaning beta ages better than VHS! Good video by the way keep up the good work!!!!

Well it’s 01:36 now, but I remember that I used a belt either from a Sony SL-8000 or a Fisher VBS-7000 that worked fine. The N17XX was a VCR longplay. I don’t remember it right now... for obvious reasons Happy new year! The picture quality of the VCR longplay is actually really good!

Putting a head drum belt on can be done without removing any scews. It's fiddly to. ;-) Set the set on the left side panel, open the trapdoor, put the belt on the motor pulley, then you can put it on the drum by rotating it.

What about professional versions of 1500 and 1700? Are there such?

Ooow a nicer belt, sounds like a good company to know :-D Hmm tension, maybe wipe the felt pad with a tiny bit of metholated spirit and the smooth clutch side. My old Jvc hr 3320 has a swaying or breathing picture, i tryed all sorts belts/motors/swearing :-D and messing with the servo board too. That was years back, And since you have shown that capacitors in your equipment are a pain, maybe the ones in my jvc have problems. I have stacks of old boards for it, so one day i might recap a spare board and slap it in, then twiddle. Or it can just sit there with its coating of dust, i like the old beast and learnt from it, so it wont get dumped. Slight editing fail, large blank bit after your video and right at the end a few seconds of you holding a bit of paper and looking slightly fed up ha ha :-D. Colin you are sacked ha ha :-D joke.

hi can you post the web info the names of the places to get to 3 belts it will be easy to post the info i have a 1702 100% working with new belt a wife lost her man left video deck one was a working v2000 brown one german market deck top loader mono with in and out in the back for sony pcm 701 i have been very lucky over the years i lost a OTARI DP2700 bad power unit i have a spare one the bad one will come back for the dead will cost alot to fix

Is that a Techmoan ru-vid.comvideos cup in the background? ;-)