A nice easy repair , less stressful than putting back a samsung 55" screen after a back light repair , thanks again for making the video 😊 no idler tyres on this one.
I have a couple of Toshiba V852UKs which had the head cleaning wheel - O removed both a while back, instead five the head a manual clean about once a year - very good machines
I’ve never owned a Toshiba VCR. My first VCR was a Fisher FVH-510 that I got around 1983. It was probably the best VCR that I owned picture quality wise. It’s only issue was when rewinding tapes. It would leave a little slack in the tape so when ejected the tape would get stuck in the machine. So what I would do was when it rewound the tape, before ejecting the tape I would put the machine in fast forward and then rewind it again and it most cases it would apply enough tension to eject successfully.
These head cleaning wheels were a source of clogged heads a few years after the machine was new any left after all these years will leave a righr mess as in this sample. Lucky you caught it in time, i have had to fit new heads with some that were beyond cleaning.
That Toshiba VCR was actually made by Samsung as that's the same mechanism as what Samsung VCRs use. Samsung made VCRs for Sony and Toshiba back in early 2000s. Also I had a Sony VCR and the auto head cleaner had disintegrated which in return destroyed the video heads. As after many cleanings the picture was a snowy mess.
I had a similar Toshiba Hi-Fi VHS recorder and it's on screen menus were identical to a Samsung, so not sure if it was made by Samsung or whether there was a common manufacturer behind both brands eg Funai.
I never had a good experience with that rewinding style, especially with Sony models (late 90's-ish) that stayed threaded up. They would cut the control track portion of the tape to ribbons!
Is it just me or do these late-model VCR brands share similar designs? This one sounds very similar to my 2004 Sony. Those gears look very similar too.
I had one recently, an "Alba" (UK cheapo brand) from the late '90s,which has an Aiwa mech in it (seems to be a TEAC VCR as I've found a TEAC service manual that matches). This had a head cleaner that has turned to a brown goo and I still haven't managed to get that clean. Even after multiple attempts with IPA and even Acetone it's still badly clogged, and seems to contaminate other machines when you move a tape from one to another. Those things were evil. Shame as this is quite a nice deck for a budget brand, it's actually four head despite not saying this on the front. You sure that's a Funai? Seems more like a Samsung from that era.
I was wondering if it was a Samsung down to my own experience with a Toshiba VCR from this era. Never come across a Teac VHS, they seem to be more common in Australia than the UK. A lot of Alba, Matsui, Bush decks were made by Orion.
@@jkmac625 Yup, the TEAC thing surprised me as well, as you say the Alba/Bush ones are generally Orion with some Daewoo and the odd Funai late on. I'm not sure if TEAC actually made it, but it does appear to be Japanese-sourced with Murcon (Murata I believe, commonly used in Toshiba gear) caps. It could actually have been built by Aiwa, I'm not sure, it certainly has an Aiwa TN6500 mech in it (Aiwa themselves were usually Orion in the UK!).
Pretty much all VCRs from every brand were built by either Funai or Orion by the end of the 90's/ early 00's. If you've seen a Samsung from this era that looks similar, then it will have been manufactured by one of the two aforementioned OEMs, as would the TEAC have been.
@@talshayar4279 Nah that's not true. By 2005 sure. But there were still several companies still making VCRs in the late 1990s. There were still factories in the UK building them from Sharp, JVC and Sony (and we had Daewoo and Orion factories building VCRs here as well), Panasonic and Sanyo were still building them in Germany, Philips were still making their higher-end machines in Austria and Belgium and there were several others in the far East. The contract manufacturers (Daewoo, Funai, Orion) only really started covering the major brands a few years later. The arse fell out of the VCR market in around 2002 when hard disk based digital video recorders became available. I was one of the first to buy into TiVo when it came to the UK in 2000 (I literally bought mine the day it came out) but it took a while for these to become readily available to the masses. I know people point to DVD but this format did not allow recording until the early 2000s,and recording at the time was considerably more expensive and less convenient than VHS.
I have a Mitsubishi HS-U80. Winding in either direction works fine. But on playback, the tape is spooled around the drum and it spins, but then the mechanism just stops. I checked the belts they seem OK. The large belt on the bottoms moves with REW/FF. Will try rubber rejuvenator on the idler tire, but apart from that any suggestions? Can I ship it to you? Local in BC. Thank you.
@@12voltvidsHi Dave i have 2 Sony VCR's both display the same symptom, when a tape is played it stops, the counter does not move, neither does it RW or FF. Any idea what the issue could be.
Best part of this video is the part where you rewind the tape. I have never seen a tape rewind at that speed. It says one minute rewind, I am guessing that is for a standard T120 tape but if you have a T180 tape it would take longer than a minute. Either way that deck rewinds faster than any deck I have ever owned.
@@ACommenterOnTH-cam Yea I know what you mean. I guess if you rented a lot of videos from blockbuster and you were in a rush to return them before they closed and you had to rewind 5 tapes then I guess that feature would be good to have LOL
Head cleaner turned into head dirtier... polyurethane foam is notorious for disintegrating like that. It's no surprise that the latest generation of VCR mechanisms would be simpler and more reliable (brittle plastic failure notwithstanding), since they've taken a few decades to reduce the complexity and parts costs.
The last generation were the best vcrs made and yet people want to spend big bucks on these old heavy boat anchors that they are somehow convinced they are better machines.
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A nice easy repair , less stressful than putting back a samsung 55" screen after a back light repair , thanks again for making the video 😊 no idler tyres on this one.
I have a couple of Toshiba V852UKs which had the head cleaning wheel - O removed both a while back, instead five the head a manual clean about once a year - very good machines
I’ve never owned a Toshiba VCR. My first VCR was a Fisher FVH-510 that I got around 1983. It was probably the best VCR that I owned picture quality wise. It’s only issue was when rewinding tapes. It would leave a little slack in the tape so when ejected the tape would get stuck in the machine. So what I would do was when it rewound the tape, before ejecting the tape I would put the machine in fast forward and then rewind it again and it most cases it would apply enough tension to eject successfully.
These head cleaning wheels were a source of clogged heads a few years after the machine was new
any left after all these years will leave a righr mess as in this sample.
Lucky you caught it in time, i have had to fit new heads with some that were beyond cleaning.
Cool tip, my vcr is also from 2003 (Philips VR140), so one day gotta check the head cleaner wheel. Last time I opened it in 2020, it looked ok.
Our first blu-Ray player was a Funai.
Funai they made VHS/DVD combo's, Recorders which were a pile of crap. Breaks down so quickly.
That Toshiba VCR was actually made by Samsung as that's the same mechanism as what Samsung VCRs use. Samsung made VCRs for Sony and Toshiba back in early 2000s. Also I had a Sony VCR and the auto head cleaner had disintegrated which in return destroyed the video heads. As after many cleanings the picture was a snowy mess.
I had a similar Toshiba Hi-Fi VHS recorder and it's on screen menus were identical to a Samsung, so not sure if it was made by Samsung or whether there was a common manufacturer behind both brands eg Funai.
8:40 It's actually made by Samsung, not Funai. The back of the VCR will say "A3L" as the FCC-ID grantee code.
I don't know how I feel about those flash rewind decks. With the aging tape, moving it at that speed seems risky. :D
I never had a good experience with that rewinding style, especially with Sony models (late 90's-ish) that stayed threaded up. They would cut the control track portion of the tape to ribbons!
Is it just me or do these late-model VCR brands share similar designs? This one sounds very similar to my 2004 Sony. Those gears look very similar too.
By this point the number if companies making VCRs was pretty slim.
I had one recently, an "Alba" (UK cheapo brand) from the late '90s,which has an Aiwa mech in it (seems to be a TEAC VCR as I've found a TEAC service manual that matches). This had a head cleaner that has turned to a brown goo and I still haven't managed to get that clean. Even after multiple attempts with IPA and even Acetone it's still badly clogged, and seems to contaminate other machines when you move a tape from one to another. Those things were evil. Shame as this is quite a nice deck for a budget brand, it's actually four head despite not saying this on the front.
You sure that's a Funai? Seems more like a Samsung from that era.
I was wondering if it was a Samsung down to my own experience with a Toshiba VCR from this era. Never come across a Teac VHS, they seem to be more common in Australia than the UK. A lot of Alba, Matsui, Bush decks were made by Orion.
@@jkmac625 Yup, the TEAC thing surprised me as well, as you say the Alba/Bush ones are generally Orion with some Daewoo and the odd Funai late on. I'm not sure if TEAC actually made it, but it does appear to be Japanese-sourced with Murcon (Murata I believe, commonly used in Toshiba gear) caps. It could actually have been built by Aiwa, I'm not sure, it certainly has an Aiwa TN6500 mech in it (Aiwa themselves were usually Orion in the UK!).
Pretty much all VCRs from every brand were built by either Funai or Orion by the end of the 90's/ early 00's. If you've seen a Samsung from this era that looks similar, then it will have been manufactured by one of the two aforementioned OEMs, as would the TEAC have been.
@@talshayar4279 Nah that's not true. By 2005 sure. But there were still several companies still making VCRs in the late 1990s. There were still factories in the UK building them from Sharp, JVC and Sony (and we had Daewoo and Orion factories building VCRs here as well), Panasonic and Sanyo were still building them in Germany, Philips were still making their higher-end machines in Austria and Belgium and there were several others in the far East. The contract manufacturers (Daewoo, Funai, Orion) only really started covering the major brands a few years later.
The arse fell out of the VCR market in around 2002 when hard disk based digital video recorders became available. I was one of the first to buy into TiVo when it came to the UK in 2000 (I literally bought mine the day it came out) but it took a while for these to become readily available to the masses. I know people point to DVD but this format did not allow recording until the early 2000s,and recording at the time was considerably more expensive and less convenient than VHS.
I have a Mitsubishi HS-U80. Winding in either direction works fine. But on playback, the tape is spooled around the drum and it spins, but then the mechanism just stops. I checked the belts they seem OK. The large belt on the bottoms moves with REW/FF. Will try rubber rejuvenator on the idler tire, but apart from that any suggestions? Can I ship it to you? Local in BC. Thank you.
Mode switch likely.
Thank you. Hopefully I don’t have to take part the whole unit to get at it 🫠
@@12voltvidsHi Dave i have 2 Sony VCR's both display the same symptom, when a tape is played it stops, the counter does not move, neither does it RW or FF. Any idea what the issue could be.
Best part of this video is the part where you rewind the tape. I have never seen a tape rewind at that speed. It says one minute rewind, I am guessing that is for a standard T120 tape but if you have a T180 tape it would take longer than a minute. Either way that deck rewinds faster than any deck I have ever owned.
@@ACommenterOnTH-cam Yea I know what you mean. I guess if you rented a lot of videos from blockbuster and you were in a rush to return them before they closed and you had to rewind 5 tapes then I guess that feature would be good to have LOL
The high speed rewind was originally designed by Toshiba in the early-1990s, and Samsung manufactured the mechanisms.
Head cleaner turned into head dirtier... polyurethane foam is notorious for disintegrating like that.
It's no surprise that the latest generation of VCR mechanisms would be simpler and more reliable (brittle plastic failure notwithstanding), since they've taken a few decades to reduce the complexity and parts costs.
The last generation were the best vcrs made and yet people want to spend big bucks on these old heavy boat anchors that they are somehow convinced they are better machines.
Is it ok to leave the auto cleaning arm on the machine if the felt comes off cleanly or should you always remove the whole arm?
If the cleaner wheel is gone the plastic arm won't hurt anything.
Modifying my vhs/dvd player so it will play blu Ray and also watch digital media like mp4 or prime video
Good luck with that. Completely different formats. Different laser, h.264vvs mpg2.
Hi Dave, was this a HiFi vcr?
It is
@@12voltvidsDave is it possible to convert a MONO VCR to STEREO was there anyway around that, Thanks
@@speedyboishan87 not really. Many additional circuits would be needed and different heads.