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Vintage Rare JVC HR7300 Top Loader VCR 1 last service before it gets sold
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 พ.ย. 2020
- I sold my very old 1982 JVC VCR to a collector. 1 Last service and new belts installed to make sure it runs for another 30 years.
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A blast from the past. I remember owning a Sears vcr that had the tuning wheels.
I haven't seen those in years!
Love these VCR videos.. never fails to entertain!
Very similar to the Ferguson (Thorn) 3V series. I remember my later father repairing and servicing many of them. We owned two 3v30's they lasted for years and years with servicing. We always thought the picture was a lot sharper than on the later machines. Very well built and like you say built to be maintained.
I love how you brought this collector's item, the "old beast!" back to life. Like you said, it may have never seen the light of day again, but now will be appreciated and treasured, by it's collector, in it's new home. Keep up the good work!
Just happy to find it a new home as I slowly unload my old cache of old equipment.
This video really puts my mind to ease, I was recently lucky enough to find one of these and I've been worried of the day I'll have to work on it as I've never worked with a top-loader before. Great work!
Someone paid me 200 more than i paid for it.
Great machines these, very popular in the UK but more commonly seen as Ferguson 3V30 than the original JVC version.
I used to have a stack of ex rental Ferguson/baird/der branded ones. Both mono and stereo versions, some even with the wired remote! All went in the skip about 18 years ago.
yep, i have 3 3v30 variants, a 3v30, 3v29, and baird 8940, nice machines, but loading belt can give trouble when it gets old/stretched ..
i still have one spare head drum for these models, but dont think i have any belt kits left
Back from the days of Debbie Does Dallas.
Chompin' at the bit to watch his collection
Wish I could get old of a VCR now to back up old vids but our old one gave up after running 8hrs every night 7 days a week 52 weeks a year for about 4or 5 yr for CTV so they didn't do bad for cheap LG ones, great vid again Dave, even tho its 0250 am in UK I still will watch you,
1979 wow, considering that my teac 144 4 track cassette recorder came out in 1979 to kickstart the home recording genre as it was in full swing by the 1980's. so the JVC HR7300 was well into it's lifecycle by 1982.
These were solid 'workhorse' machines and hence very popular in the UK rental market (badge-engineered as Ferguson, Baird, DER, Multibroadcast etc, etc). The flagship JVC model for 1980 was their first front loader, the HR7700 - more popularly known here as the Ferguson Videostar 3V23. We owned one and it was an absolute beast! Lasted well into the nineties..
I have the AKAI-branded HR-7700 (VS-10). Love the full metal chassis and big PCBs everywhere! Over-engineered machine that even has a feature where it retains the pitch of the audio in X2 playback mode.
@@crashbandicoot4everr I remember that feature well. Hours of fun! :')
Another great video !
That's a decent looking VCR, I like how the tape is loaded
yep, these only thread the tape on the heads when actually playing or recording, not while rewind or fast forward, unlike most/all? later machines which leave it threaded most of the time, increasing head and tape wear..
I they like that old vcr it hard to find those that still work at all.
This one works perfect as you can see. On its way to the USA.
I would say 1982 as well. It is very much like the first VCR my parents had. They couldn't afford to buy it so rented it. I was the one who used it as I worked evenings so had to record what I wanted to watch. If I remember it only recorded one programme over 7 days, so I had to choose which show I wanted to watch the most. It was a very good picture, better than the Hitachi VCR we had next.
Neat old vcr!
Not to contradict you, I'm just super proud of it. I have a Sony KV-25th which is a 5" Trinitron CRT. They ran a really limited number of them (2500) Supposedly, they were made for a model of car from the same era but they didn't do well so they made some consumer TVs out of them.
Smallest i remember in Canada was the 8. Next one down indextron.
Hi, great machine, however may not last years if still has incandescent lamp. Back in the day I replaced literally hundreds of this type with a little mod kit consisting of led, holder, and higher value resistor to reduce supply voltage to suit led. Great stuff as always.
Big deal, incandescent panel lamps are readily available. When it burns out just get another one. I believe it is either a 9v or 12v lamp. It just plugs in, with the blue plug and wires.
@@12voltvids Sure are, but customer has to pay someone to replace it, mod was long term reliability solution.
@@72notout13 change it yourself. Take top off remove screw that holds bulb, unplug old , plug in new and put new bulb in holder. Replace screw and cover.
@@12voltvids Not every owner is capable of doing that. that is why we had service shops.
Hey! Do you have a link or reference for the kit? My VCR is a JVC HR-7100u the model just before this one, by the way @12voltvids this is a 1984 VCR you have there 😉
We used to have customers complaining about the lines on Trinitron tubes too in UK
Once you see them you can't unsee them and they become annoying.
That's such a collector's item there,,,almost a 40 year old machine! Imagine how good they were well built back then!
I may have an old sharp vcr of that era in storage somewhere,,,,but i know it,s a front loading tape insert type,,,not top loading.
Good stuff! I have the HR-7700 (rebranded as AKAI VS-10) which was the first front loader and it has a bloody chain in the front loading mechanism to spin the rollers that pull the tape into the machine. Mine also has a seconds display on the clock. :)
Here in europe sold as saba, telefunken, thomson, thorn, ferguson, nordmende.
Very very reliable machines.
Repaired a lot of these and the only problems are belts, idler video head and the burnt out tape sensor bulb...
Hi in the old days I used to work for a rental company and we had the rental version of the unit and the common problems we had baring the head drum were the cassette damping and the loading motor belt and also replacing the remote cable as the plug would crack at the base
Mike
The last few vcrs of this type that i repaired had problems in the loading gear mechanism and the sliding rail of the tape drivers due to the plastics worn out and were coming back a couple of times every two or three months until the customers finally replaced them.Cant give to every retromaniac enthusiast a promise that the ancient machine he just bought will continue to operate the same as it was a brand new one because its a new toy to him but in fact maybe it is +20 years older than him.People that had these machines in that era they dont have nostalgia at all like return the tape tomorrow but tonight the vcr shows nothing due to a dirty drum head and have to get it also to the technician to fix it.
I've had a few of those machines to fix, a looooong time ago.
Like that one, mostly belts and the odd one with a dirty static wiper on the drum.
Didn't have any problems with the psu, good old linear supply.
A good reliable machine as far as i can remember :-D
I've got a few of these and their variants, mainly in Ferguson and Baird guise. Very reliable, just lamp and rubber parts. They're not that rare, at least in the UK anyway.
@@nowt1002 Oh yes i forgot the tape end detect bulb.
I would also imagine there are a fair few piano key blocks of metal sitting in peoples sheds from the 1980's Hr3320 and similar.
Most i've seen were worn out by people copying tapes with them, they were not affected by the copy protection.
I still have a Jvc one, but i don't bother with tv now so it just sits there looking heavy lol :-D
Perfect, i would and need to learn how to repair vcr, i still have got one here, have work but the mechanisme broke down this beginning of this year.
These were very reliable and well-built machines. They're essentially identical to the Ferguson 3V29, the best-selling VHS recorder in the UK in 1982. There are still thousands of these and the equally reliable Sanyo VTC5000/5150 Beta machines (which was the best-selling machine overall in 1982-3 in the UK) kicking around here. Both models far better than the stuff Sony, Panasonic or Philips were churning out at this time (for longevity/reliability at least - particularly compared to the nasty Philips V2000 units which had some very nice features but simply didn't last well).
I don't think it's any coincidence that both of these designs despool the tape during fast forward/rewind. Why they thought it was a good idea to keep the tape spooled up all the time just to save five seconds on playback is beyond me.
I gave my 3V29 away in 2011.. to a collector. I was moving from a house to a flat and some things had to go. Only repair since getting it second hand in 1989 was the bulb.. once.. the only design fault on these excellent machines.. plug the power in with the power and function switch on and it blew the bulb. My repair book showed a mod for that.. a 100 ohm resistor in series with the bulb, but I found any more than 50 and it played up on the current sensing circuit.. I believe the 3V32 had that.. the earlier ones before they went to the LED.
Do all modern vcr's do the keep-it-spooled-up thing? I only have 1 that is not from the '70s but that one also has a bunch of editing functions for which this feature makes sense at least.
@@stragulus Yeah I think all VHS machines made at least since the early 1990s do this. The last VHS machine I had that despooled was a Samsung unit, bought new in 1987 (another good machine but the buttons on the front fell apart physically making it unpleasant to use with no remote) . As did all the Sony/Toshiba Beta recorders - Sanyo went their own way with the 5000/5150 in a number of areas, creating a machine that was nearly half the price and weight of competitor machines, but hardly ever went wrong - only the idler tyre needing semi-regular replacement (or given a dose of rubber renew).
I have a Sony EV DT-1 with a 5 inch trinitron display and built in video 8 recorder. Works excellent from 1989 :)
I think the very first VCR I bought was one of those, except it had Ferguson on it, but I came across Japanese Victor Company somewhere on it. Built like a tank and weighed a ton. Clock was easy set, so was the timer and it was set not with an end time it was minutes to record, then it just stopped. I can't remember if you could only record only one programme as you had to set the channel, but I think you could record the same channel every day or week. Can't quite remember, but there was something odd about the timer! I'm sure I had a spare head and set of belts for it, but they may have went when the VCR moved on for a newer model(S) with LP and one I could edit with. Just family holidays etc, so all it had to do was pick up from the last bit of film so there was no break in picture.
Nice
Bonjour je dépannais ces magnétoscope il y a maintenant 35 ans au tout début de ma carrière un bon souvenir
thanks
Now I have to find a trinitron and look for the wires...
The first VCR we had (early 80's) was a top loader with physical push down button (not electrical switches). Had wood grain too. Wish I remembered the brand.
could of been a Panasonic or Magnavox , Quasar, RCA, which they are all Rebranded Panasonics. The one I had was a Panasonic PV-1200
RCA and Panasonic had the fake wood panels as did sanyo beta.
@@12voltvids Might have been one of the Hitachi "double zero" deadfinger machines.. Those were reliable as anything.. even with the 3 million belts
@@Hi-Tech-Ray Yep, looking at some pictures I think it was the Panasonic PV-1210. I remember the tuner dials on the front and front panel clock. Could never get that to record something on a timer, there was always something not set right. Nothing more disappointing than coming home to find your show was not taped. How things have changed.
vintageelectronics.betamaxcollectors.com/panasonicvhsvcrmodelpv-1210.html
@@12voltvids Yep, Panasonic PV-1210.
HR-7300, huh? I've never heard of this one, more familiar with the HR-7100 with its famous brightly colored big chunky buttons.
Here are the Belts used in this machine: SCA3.2 Load, SCY4.0 Ctr ,SCY5.2 T/UP ,SCY7.5 Ctr
FRM10.7 Cap from PRB VKT116 Kits which there are some old new stock found on Ebay at your own risk!
I see 4 video heads. Maybe these are for super long play? Certainly not stereo.
(btw. I have one of these early JVCs that only have 2 motors including the head drum which is also belt driven. Everything's mechanical on that machine)
(also my problem is that I have a roughly 2m stack of old to ancient VCRs but I can't give away any of them because none of them are working reliably for an "end consumer" aka 12 o'clock flasher, they have faults like "you have to rewind for a second before you press play" or "you have to insert the cassette exactly like /that/" or "this only works reliably when you set it on its side" (like a Tower PC) or "this one has trouble playing recordings made by some machines" or "this one takes 15 minutes until the picture is clear and it's not a dirty head" - all like faults that don't keep me from using these but fixing them would be a major PITA)
Hi there 12voltvids.
First time ever commenting on your channel. I’ve watched your videos for many months now. I wish we had more amazing professionals like you in this world. I have a question. Which vcr provide the best picture out there? I have a hitachi dvd/vhs combo that has auto tracking on it & Hifi & does a pretty good job. Because of your videos I was able to save it from the dumpster. But if I can possibly upgrade to something a little better quality I’d love to hear from you.
Thanks.
@16:44, is there a way to brighten the VFD? I got an old JVC HRS8000U and the VFD is dim, I heard you can "burn it off" with a higher voltage blast and maybe brighten it a little? Only thing' wrong' with it. Thanks, fascinating that these old things can still work with all their gears and pulleys!
VFD is a vacuum tube and they do wear out.
In like Flynn. Both are Daves after all. :)
That Flynn he is a sneaky bugger.
Hello, I would like to ask you a question since I follow you here and you are a great technician in vhs and other electronic devices. I have a vhs that works but it doesn't revive anymore and I also have another one but it's already very old and I didn't catch the tape when I clicked play. Could you explain me a greeting and like.
That 1982 JVC VCR won't have Macrovision. That makes it quite valuable.
Ya but it also doesn't have hifi
@@12voltvids Nor is it SVHS but still a great and expensive unit for the time
@@12voltvids Thank you for this great video ..Curious,, was the storage unit climate controlled or non climate controlled
Macrovision protection causes synchonization pulses to fail while recording so the recorded tapes have no screen and if this one will copy a macrovision tape will do the same thing as every other VCR machine.
@@evergriven7402 it is heated to 7c
What do you think of Go Video duel VCR machines? I have one HI-FI & suppose to copy copy-protected tapes & it does not any way to fix that?
They don't copy copy protected tapes. That would be illegal to sell.
@@12voltvids Mine does and it doenst have the vhs logo I got it at circuit city way back it seems they were in stores for a awhile. It does copy protected tapes. It has a different company for the hifi circuitry to
Is it possible I can get ahold of you somehow about fixing an amp for me? Be really neat if you made a video of it too. I’d ship it I don’t mind.
in new zealand it was a national 110 and lastest years
Do you happen to have a older (like late 80s/early 90s) Sony VHS Hi-Fi unit and how much would you want for one of them? I am looking for a well built HiFi unit to transfer my tapes on.
I will have a look and see what I gave. I might have one.
Here i have some old VCRs that won't run very well on flatscreen TVs yet run great on CRTs, i wonder if its Due to how they scan picture or if its some thing else, but all work great on CRT sets but don't seem to like The flat screen sets But DVDS all work on every type set, i know that theres nothing wrong with the VCR's other than the Issues with these newer TVs, old some times doesn't like new i guess.
Try using a Sima Color Corrector box to fix the vertical blank sync pulse.
Some flat screen TVs don't handle interlaced video well
There's not much you can do about it. It depends on the quality of the upscaler in the TV's image processor. The latest TV sets often don't even have analog inputs.
@@12voltvids Yeah i figured that out, but i still use my old CRT set every day here but in room the flat screen only way i can use with a vcr is going through avi or some thing, as won't on the cable or tuner inputs, or it gets like snow or lines in picture but if going avi or through an analog to digital box then its fine, so its gotta be that the newer tv's just won't interface well with some older technology, why i prefer CRT sets over these new types of tvs here my self.to me its better for what i use, i'm still in dinosaur age yet.
Repaired many of thid vintage from '79 to '89 and beyond Hard to beat the mechanics of these units
Cut my video tape experience on Sony reel to reel video recorders
Haha yes, except for the plastic loading gears that cracked on the early models. Always baffled me with an otherwise heavy duty mechanism.
@@stragulus Most things had a weak link. Replaced many of the RP switches too
Dam, Don't they have something to hold up the board while working on it?
I always used a long shafted screwdriver as a prop rod.
The tooth brush lying next to the unit would have worked probably, I was thinking that while I was watching it
Post the serial number and I'll tell you when it was made.
How do you find out the manufacturing date from JVC's serial numbers?
You have to do a bit of slightly weird maths on the number. I'm an ex JVC employee and I've promised I won't reveal how, but you may be able to find it somewhere on the Internet.
@@GaryB007OK. I have an HR-3330TR with a serial number 12601008. Can you decode that?
@@crashbandicoot4everr That would be July 1981.
Where did all the JVC fanboys come from all of a sudden? I thought I was the only one and that it was mostly a Sony thing?!