Thank you for your all your work on these videos. I learned how to fix my Panasonic DMR ES30V that was completely dead with a tape stuck in it. It really helped me when you showed the parts and explained how it works. It was fun and interesting, too.
Yeah I know about those crappy cassette loading mechanisms, I had tried to get into the video repair business more then 15 years ago but every time I saw the insides of a new machine I could see the end was nearer for the repair biz. Seems like the cassette mechanisms would strip gear teeth and break the tabs that held the sliding parts together with the most minor user abuse. And then everything is like that now. Also I managed to get grease on a tape once and when that hit the drum it tried to wind the tape onto the drum rather quickly! Good video, thanks.
wdavem I entered the video repair business in 1984 but actually started in it in 1980 learning everything I could while finishing school. I did that job from 84, and left the business in 2003 and changed careers. Now I just do it more as a hobby, and to make some money from the advertising.
Now there´s a fever for "vintage" VCRs, most when 10 years ago everyboddy scrapped it away.. But problems working is not so bad when compared with "peope who´s never serviced a VCR leaves it worst.
I used to have my 2000 Quasar VV-1300, check them out and see what's in the case about the design of the VCR, and it looks the same component like your VCR except the Head Drum and yeah, it is indeed due to cheapness design, they're not design to fix but to throw it away, but when overusing the VCR, it can cause the VCR to eat the tape. But it's still works but figured that I don't want to use them but to keep them as a history. As for the Screen, it's made by Samsung and it's made in Malaysia and same thing for Coax Cable input that is also made in Malaysia. Oh well, I can use my Quasar VV-1300 TV as a TV Monitor on my work bench to test some certain external VCR's but I rather not bother my internal VCR unless I like to look back the history that I recorded back in 2006 for example like WLKY's Thunder Over Louisville.
The 3 motors, big cam and slider as well as how the whole mechanism comes out as a module looks similar to the common Sony chassis which you can still get parts for, except obviously much more cheaply built. Simplicity and serviceability is good, but making it almost impossible to reassemble is not.
What do you do when p2 and p3 are out of alignment and p2 doesn't extend all the way? I'm trying to repair a JVC HR-VP638U. It is difficult to access the underside. It appears everything is mounted to a steel chassis requiring a lot of disassembling to access and timing marks I can't find......thanks for your videos they are infomative
Truly love your channel. Super great stuff. Question I have is where do you sell the stuff that you fix and how do I send stuff to you to have fixed ? Keep up the great videos
What is the spray for the contacts called? I guess I could order it on line and the dielectric grease, too. How are you on using those fiberglass brushes to clean contacts of the switch?
I search for National NV_390 Em VCR schematic 1984 model , do any friend have it.. It is made by Matsushita Japan the same company known later by Panasonic👍👍
amtpdb1 I was using a q-tip to scrub the lower drum (the part that does not turn) and I wanted to keep the head chips away from where I was cleaning just in case I slipped, that way I wouldn't hit the head and break it.
hello. I have two vhs jvc version HR-D721EN and both play with sound but black image, I already cleaned the heads and it's still the same, if I fast-forward there you can see the rain but then it's black with the play logo. any idea how to repair it or a circuit that is wrong. Thank you
Thanks!!! I´ll chack my NVSD40. Symptoms: Load tape: OK. Starts normal playback Buttons no respond. Display time runs too Fast. You can press REW and FF simultaneosly and threre´s no response.
Greetings 12voltvids, I have a citizen C503DVC VCR/DVD combo player. When I connect the yellow, white, and red RCA wires from it's output to my Sony KDL-32BX310 television's input, the picture is either distorted or there is no picture at all. I also tried it with the green, blue, and red component wires and get the same result however, if I I connect the component wires to the DVD only section of the player, the picture display is good. What do you reconn? Best Regards
i have this exact model vcr and am having a problem with the eject motor not stopping after ejecting a tape. while a tape is in it works fine but when there is no tape it runs back and forth over and over slightly like it wants to load a tape. what could make this happen? it spins the left wheel and a few rotations then restarts over and over. your help would be much appreciated
Hernandi Krammes It really doesn't matter. Good quality cleaner like nutrol leaves a lubricant file behind. This stuff was developed for the telephone company back in the day of strawger and crossbar switches. It lubricates and kept them clean for years.
@@12voltvids Hey look my VHS!! .. The last VHS i buy (JVC J696EN) but is exactingly the same you have there on your workbench screw by screw.. . I changed 3 times to this one.... all three units exactly the same issue.. Eventually at a certain point.. you get a "Pup-Pup" on the Hi-Fi audio.. on both channels.. 🥴 When it record.. it leaves them recorded in the tape.. and then you have double.. "Pup-Pup"... the ones recorded in the tape.. and a couple of seconds later the "normal" crappy "Pup-Pup" add it by the playback.. I changed the first machine in the store where i buy it... they gave me another one... Exactly the same problem.. It was under warranty.. so it went to the official JVC technical service here in the capital city.... they could not repair it..... they gave me a purchase order for another... i get that one in the capital city in a totally different store that same day... the one I still have here today .. and it always did exactly the same "Pup-Pup" shit in the Hi-Fi audio.. I don't use it anymore .. I don't even have it connected.. The best i ever have.... was a JVC J646EN... That one was beautiful with its VFD front... Someone stole that one from me when my car was stolen back around 2003-2004... so i buy this one around 2004... I just looked ... 600 dollars ... a JVC J646EN fully working here in MercadoLibre (the local eBuy)...
can those switches cause the tape to get hung up when it when ejected. kinda hit and miss. sometimes the machine turns off when tape is ejected. erratic behavior...
+12voltvids I have this combo dvd/vhs made by pye. dvd recorder. Nice but the vhs is not workin properly. I think its that switch there but this outfit doesn't seem to lend itself easily to that surgery that you preformed there. looks like the whole board needs to come out . If the switch is linear is the repair basically the same.
@@12voltvids Yes. even Funai Sony from 2003 males the same Sound that 2002 LG (drum slowning down when powered off) Funai Sony was 150 usd against LG For $100 un 2002. But that LG has never failed despite 8 hours working a Day. No broken gears..even mode switch never cleaned.
Ms. Claire... You obviously haven't seen many repair videos on TH-cam, because the camera work performed in this channel is superb. You go through all the repairing steps as if you were there repairing the vcr with him. The picture quality of the videos is also excellent. Try look at other channels and you will know what I'm talking about. Just thank him for his work and stop writing nonsense.
@@josegti84 This was done before I built my jib crane that holds the camera directly over the work bench, so it was shooting over my shoulder. Remember I am a 1 man operation. I do not have a camera operator, however I also have been in the video production industry since the early 80's and my post secondary education was actually in the field of television production. This is what I originally planned to do as a career, but I found out that jobs in the industry are few and far between, and it is mostly gigs. So I went into my fall back career of electronic repair, and started a video production business. I was quite successful too in the avenue I went down, which was industrial / promotional video and event videography. (Weddings, product demonstration, infomercials, training and real estate sales videos)
@@12voltvids Even with "rudimentary" gear, the results are impressive. As I said earlier, until you see all the garbage published all over TH-cam, you don't get to appreciate the hard work put into this channel. These videos are like watching a good series. You haven't finished watching an episode and can't wait for the next one... Keep up the good work mate. Any chance to see some good repairing on a Video 2000 recorder?
Why should you save a filthy tape like that and know better and get Jelly and peanut butter all over the head?????? DAU#!~??? DON'T YOU THINK to through that damn tape in the trash? And now one that's watching this video are going to have you transfer any of there tapes if you use this trash unit for conversions. I had to give a thumbs down.....
Gary Astron This is a garbage machine that I pulled out of the garbage just to make this video. I don't use any of these machines for tape transfer work. I use a JVC hr s9911 for transfer work on vhs / svhs. Slhf 1000 for beta, evs7000 for 8mm and hi8, gvd800 for digital 8 gv hd7000 for DV and hdv, nv9200 for 3/4 ". All top spec machines. The machines I put up on the bench are VCRs that I pull out of the garbage can and they don't need a good tape. A damaged tape is just fine because most of them damage it more. Thanks for the thumbs down.
Look at the date. This was recorded 3 years ago. I used to use this machine for transfer work, I haven't used it in years. Probably since this video was done, as I have acquired newer machines. I use a pvv535 and hrs9911 now for archive work. Service "work" tapes do get chewed up, and contaminated. That is the nature of work tapes. I DO NOT PUT my factory alignment tape in customers machines. I use them to set up my reference recorder, and then use that reference recorder to make my own alignment work tapes that I use to align other machines to. This is perfectally acceptable for consumer grade machines, because consumer grade machines are not that good to begin with, so a slight error here or there isn't the end of the world. If you are aligning professional editors, and the tapes could end up in any machine and alignment is absolutely critical, then a factory alignment tape is a must, and I do have both a VHS and Beta factory alignment tape. That is what I set my machines up with. Seriously though, just how many VCRs do you think I actually fix for people? I do perhaps 2 a year. All these machines I service here are my old machines and ones people give me. With the exception of a few really good machines I have the rest will never be in service again. I don't use tape, I do on the other hand archive tape for people, and the majority of the tapes I get from clients to archive I wouldn't want to put in my good machine anyway, as the majority of them ate in as bad a shape as this test tape. 90% of people took their camcorder tapes and copied them to VHS tapes that had been already used at least 100 times to record soap opras on. Then they copied their baby's first steps onto it, in the 6 hour speed, filled the tapes up to the brim, on tapes that were totally worn out, with 100 dropouts per minute minimum, and then they say, can you fit the entire tape on 1 dvd because I don't want a stack of disks. Not everyone does this but most did. Then they erased the 8mm tape and used it again, over and over until it was worn out. Now myself, a tape was used once. I used camera tapes to record one event, edited the footage to the master. The camera tapes were erased, and then used for personal recordings on basically the 3rd pass. First was the initial recording, second was dumping to computer for edit, and 3rd was the last recording or personal stuff. But the majority just used the same tapes over, and over, and over again.
Man I spent 30 years of my life servicing consumer electronics and VHS decks still have some of my favorite mechanical systems.
I did it for 20 professionally and the last 20 as a hobby.
Thank you for your all your work on these videos. I learned how to fix my Panasonic DMR ES30V that was completely dead with a tape stuck in it. It really helped me when you showed the parts and explained how it works. It was fun and interesting, too.
Parabéns por compartilhar seus conhecimentos!
RJ - Brasil.
YOU MAKE GREAT VIDEOS - ALL THE BEST !!!
Yeah I know about those crappy cassette loading mechanisms, I had tried to get into the video repair business more then 15 years ago but every time I saw the insides of a new machine I could see the end was nearer for the repair biz. Seems like the cassette mechanisms would strip gear teeth and break the tabs that held the sliding parts together with the most minor user abuse. And then everything is like that now.
Also I managed to get grease on a tape once and when that hit the drum it tried to wind the tape onto the drum rather quickly! Good video, thanks.
wdavem I entered the video repair business in 1984 but actually started in it in 1980 learning everything I could while finishing school. I did that job from 84, and left the business in 2003 and changed careers. Now I just do it more as a hobby, and to make some money from the advertising.
Now there´s a fever for "vintage" VCRs, most when 10 years ago everyboddy scrapped it away..
But problems working is not so bad when compared with "peope who´s never serviced a VCR leaves it worst.
The days when Panasonic even used cast-aluminum decks in their camcorders- and I'm talking about consumer models here.
My favorite vcr is sanyo!
I used to have my 2000 Quasar VV-1300, check them out and see what's in the case about the design of the VCR, and it looks the same component like your VCR except the Head Drum and yeah, it is indeed due to cheapness design, they're not design to fix but to throw it away, but when overusing the VCR, it can cause the VCR to eat the tape. But it's still works but figured that I don't want to use them but to keep them as a history. As for the Screen, it's made by Samsung and it's made in Malaysia and same thing for Coax Cable input that is also made in Malaysia. Oh well, I can use my Quasar VV-1300 TV as a TV Monitor on my work bench to test some certain external VCR's but I rather not bother my internal VCR unless I like to look back the history that I recorded back in 2006 for example like WLKY's Thunder Over Louisville.
The 3 motors, big cam and slider as well as how the whole mechanism comes out as a module looks similar to the common Sony chassis which you can still get parts for, except obviously much more cheaply built. Simplicity and serviceability is good, but making it almost impossible to reassemble is not.
What do you do when p2 and p3 are out of alignment and p2 doesn't extend all the way? I'm trying to repair a JVC HR-VP638U. It is difficult to access the underside. It appears everything is mounted to a steel chassis requiring a lot of disassembling to access and timing marks I can't find......thanks for your videos they are infomative
Truly love your channel. Super great stuff. Question I have is where do you sell the stuff that you fix and how do I send stuff to you to have fixed ? Keep up the great videos
What is the spray for the contacts called? I guess I could order it on line and the dielectric grease, too. How are you on using those fiberglass brushes to clean contacts of the switch?
USA Z deck looks very different to UK Z deck. I wonder why that is?
I search for National NV_390 Em VCR schematic 1984 model , do any friend have it..
It is made by Matsushita Japan the same company known later by Panasonic👍👍
Try coffee filter paper for head cleaning - you'll never go back to plain paper. I do wet it slightly with cleaner first...
Thanks for the video. What did you mean when you said to rotate the head away when cleaning the lower head?
Thanks again.
Don
amtpdb1 I was using a q-tip to scrub the lower drum (the part that does not turn) and I wanted to keep the head chips away from where I was cleaning just in case I slipped, that way I wouldn't hit the head and break it.
12voltvids OK I guess I would see the head chip if I was looking at it.
Thanks again (fast reply)! Have a nice rest of the weekend.
Don
hello. I have two vhs jvc version HR-D721EN and both play with sound but black image, I already cleaned the heads and it's still the same, if I fast-forward there you can see the rain but then it's black with the play logo. any idea how to repair it or a circuit that is wrong. Thank you
Thanks!!! I´ll chack my NVSD40. Symptoms:
Load tape: OK.
Starts normal playback
Buttons no respond.
Display time runs too Fast.
You can press REW and FF simultaneosly and threre´s no response.
Greetings 12voltvids,
I have a citizen C503DVC VCR/DVD combo player. When I connect the yellow, white, and red RCA wires from it's output to my Sony KDL-32BX310 television's input, the picture is either distorted or there is no picture at all. I also tried it with the green, blue, and red component wires and get the same result however, if I I connect the component wires to the DVD only section of the player, the picture display is good. What do you reconn?
Best Regards
How to fix no serial clock transmission between ic 6001 and ic 7501?
Where are they? Please advise
Hello 12Voltvids,
I hope you can help me. My Panasonic VCR with z Deck have error code F09 came up.
Can you explain what does it mean?
Im abt to clean a mode switch for first time. What was that lube u used? Neutrol?? Coulndt find it or a good answer on a safe lube
Nutrol
i have this exact model vcr and am having a problem with the eject motor not stopping after ejecting a tape. while a tape is in it works fine but when there is no tape it runs back and forth over and over slightly like it wants to load a tape. what could make this happen? it spins the left wheel and a few rotations then restarts over and over. your help would be much appreciated
Usually the mode switch or the optical sensors. The ir led in the middle gets weak and triggers the tape sensor that detects you are loading a tape.
It would be nice (for the switch) use silicon grease on the rotary switch?
Hernandi Krammes
It really doesn't matter. Good quality cleaner like nutrol leaves a lubricant file behind. This stuff was developed for the telephone company back in the day of strawger and crossbar switches. It lubricates and kept them clean for years.
@@12voltvids Hey look my VHS!! .. The last VHS i buy (JVC J696EN) but is exactingly the same you have there on your workbench screw by screw..
.
I changed 3 times to this one.... all three units exactly the same issue..
Eventually at a certain point.. you get a "Pup-Pup" on the Hi-Fi audio.. on both channels.. 🥴
When it record.. it leaves them recorded in the tape..
and then you have double.. "Pup-Pup"... the ones recorded in the tape.. and a couple of seconds later the "normal" crappy "Pup-Pup" add it by the playback..
I changed the first machine in the store where i buy it... they gave me another one...
Exactly the same problem..
It was under warranty.. so it went to the official JVC technical service here in the capital city....
they could not repair it.....
they gave me a purchase order for another...
i get that one in the capital city in a totally different store that same day... the one I still have here today ..
and it always did exactly the same "Pup-Pup" shit in the Hi-Fi audio..
I don't use it anymore .. I don't even have it connected..
The best i ever have.... was a JVC J646EN...
That one was beautiful with its VFD front...
Someone stole that one from me when my car was stolen back around 2003-2004... so i buy this one around 2004...
I just looked ... 600 dollars ... a JVC J646EN fully working here in MercadoLibre (the local eBuy)...
Please upload a video that show video head repairing to z- machanism
can those switches cause the tape to get hung up when it when ejected. kinda hit and miss. sometimes the machine turns off when tape is ejected. erratic behavior...
+yrulooknatme Yes most definitely.
+12voltvids
I have this combo dvd/vhs made by pye. dvd recorder. Nice but the vhs is not workin properly. I think its that switch there but this outfit doesn't seem to lend itself easily to that surgery that you preformed there.
looks like the whole board needs to come out . If the switch is linear
is the repair basically the same.
What type of spray do you use for Switch Mode?
***** I use a cleaner called NuTrol by MG Chemicals
That manufacture date...02/02/2002 lol..
Fivos Sakellis Actually it is 03/01/02
My 2008 LG has a QR code sticked on loading mechanism.
Got a 2002 LG C299 mechanism and never a mechanical problem
More "TNT"
Your VCR is even cheaper than mine (1996).Even the display is very basic.
Mine from 1996 looks better.
They all got very cheap like this in the end. You should see the funi machines.
@@12voltvids Yes. even Funai Sony from 2003 males the same Sound that 2002 LG (drum slowning down when powered off)
Funai Sony was 150 usd against LG For $100 un 2002.
But that LG has never failed despite 8 hours working a Day.
No broken gears..even mode switch never cleaned.
In pretty much all of your videos your hand blocks the view of which screws you are adjusting
Oh well
Ms. Claire... You obviously haven't seen many repair videos on TH-cam, because the camera work performed in this channel is superb. You go through all the repairing steps as if you were there repairing the vcr with him. The picture quality of the videos is also excellent. Try look at other channels and you will know what I'm talking about. Just thank him for his work and stop writing nonsense.
@@josegti84 This was done before I built my jib crane that holds the camera directly over the work bench, so it was shooting over my shoulder. Remember I am a 1 man operation. I do not have a camera operator, however I also have been in the video production industry since the early 80's and my post secondary education was actually in the field of television production. This is what I originally planned to do as a career, but I found out that jobs in the industry are few and far between, and it is mostly gigs. So I went into my fall back career of electronic repair, and started a video production business. I was quite successful too in the avenue I went down, which was industrial / promotional video and event videography. (Weddings, product demonstration, infomercials, training and real estate sales videos)
@@12voltvids Even with "rudimentary" gear, the results are impressive. As I said earlier, until you see all the garbage published all over TH-cam, you don't get to appreciate the hard work put into this channel. These videos are like watching a good series. You haven't finished watching an episode and can't wait for the next one... Keep up the good work mate. Any chance to see some good repairing on a Video 2000 recorder?
@@josegti84 Never even seen a video 2000 recorder. It was that strange one by Philips that you turned the tape over on wasn't it?
Throw the tape out!
Why should you save a filthy tape like that and know better and get Jelly and peanut butter all over the head?????? DAU#!~??? DON'T YOU THINK to through that damn tape in the trash? And now one that's watching this video are going to have you transfer any of there tapes if you use this trash unit for conversions. I had to give a thumbs down.....
Gary Astron
This is a garbage machine that I pulled out of the garbage just to make this video. I don't use any of these machines for tape transfer work. I use a JVC hr s9911 for transfer work on vhs / svhs. Slhf 1000 for beta, evs7000 for 8mm and hi8, gvd800 for digital 8 gv hd7000 for DV and hdv, nv9200 for 3/4 ". All top spec machines. The machines I put up on the bench are VCRs that I pull out of the garbage can and they don't need a good tape. A damaged tape is just fine because most of them damage it more. Thanks for the thumbs down.
This is not what your telling us in the video. Listen to the first two minutes of the video. What up doc???
Gotcha!!!
Look at the date. This was recorded 3 years ago. I used to use this machine for transfer work, I haven't used it in years. Probably since this video was done, as I have acquired newer machines. I use a pvv535 and hrs9911 now for archive work. Service "work" tapes do get chewed up, and contaminated. That is the nature of work tapes.
I DO NOT PUT my factory alignment tape in customers machines. I use them to set up my reference recorder, and then use that reference recorder to make my own alignment work tapes that I use to align other machines to. This is perfectally acceptable for consumer grade machines, because consumer grade machines are not that good to begin with, so a slight error here or there isn't the end of the world. If you are aligning professional editors, and the tapes could end up in any machine and alignment is absolutely critical, then a factory alignment tape is a must, and I do have both a VHS and Beta factory alignment tape. That is what I set my machines up with. Seriously though, just how many VCRs do you think I actually fix for people? I do perhaps 2 a year. All these machines I service here are my old machines and ones people give me. With the exception of a few really good machines I have the rest will never be in service again. I don't use tape, I do on the other hand archive tape for people, and the majority of the tapes I get from clients to archive I wouldn't want to put in my good machine anyway, as the majority of them ate in as bad a shape as this test tape. 90% of people took their camcorder tapes and copied them to VHS tapes that had been already used at least 100 times to record soap opras on. Then they copied their baby's first steps onto it, in the 6 hour speed, filled the tapes up to the brim, on tapes that were totally worn out, with 100 dropouts per minute minimum, and then they say, can you fit the entire tape on 1 dvd because I don't want a stack of disks. Not everyone does this but most did. Then they erased the 8mm tape and used it again, over and over until it was worn out.
Now myself, a tape was used once. I used camera tapes to record one event, edited the footage to the master. The camera tapes were erased, and then used for personal recordings on basically the 3rd pass. First was the initial recording, second was dumping to computer for edit, and 3rd was the last recording or personal stuff. But the majority just used the same tapes over, and over, and over again.