10:56 I'm sure I can speak for most of the people who watch these - but I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge and experience on these machines.
Well you break your own promise and i'm glad you did because i don't know any better men for that kind job to fixing old electronics like VCR, DVD, TV's R to R, keep up with good work i love your videos and enjoy very much thank you
this brings back nightmarish memories of the decades that I spent fixing this shit and getting mentally sick, but having no choice but to do it just to make money. then i eventually finally retired and stopped and just hated the sight of any of this obsolete garbage, and anything with motors, i hate motors! i threw away all my motorized electronics and felt such relief. i now see these items as neanderthal, so seeing you do it brought back those memories, except that i now can smile about it because i'm over it and feel liberated. i appreciate your sharing and kudos for having found the problem and gotten it to work. yes, the color shit is basically a dead end unless you have the s/m, as you said, and even then it's hours on end to fix that. the best solution is to go to the highest bridge in town and throw it down into the rocks as you have some popcorn.
I picked up one of these at a thrift store for USD$6. I cleaned the heads and when I put in a tape to test it, I got sound but no picture. Sure enough, that ribbon connector beneath the shield in back was unplugged. I plugged it in and got a picture, but it was noisy as hell… for a few tries, and then it stopped threading the tape properly. The tape is riding too high up along the guides for some reason. It tries to rethread it, then ejects it. The guide to the right of the drum left a slight crease halfway up the tape as a result. I’m not sweating it, I just thought me having a series of problems on the same model and also deciding it’s not worth the trouble was kinda funny. (The machine was also buggy - as in quite a few dead flies and carapaces inside.)
Dave, its not possible that the head drum is 180 out? I put a head drum on the wrong way around once, all tapes showed monochrome, but recording with the heads on wrong produced a good colour picture. See if recording gives colour?.
I was thinking about that as well. But if you watch carefully as he puts the drum back together, you will see that there's a small notch on the PCB where the grounding spring sits on, so I believe he did put it back together correctly.
@@crashbandicoot4everr Ahh i'm a twit lol :-D I was thinking about the old machines, like my ancient jvc hr3320ek piano key. Ahh well, the chroma processing is hidden in a beast chip, shame.
@@zx8401ztv One time I accidentaly installed the drum flywheel on my HR-3330TR incorrectly and the result was incorrect head switching and the picture was all messed up lol.
@@crashbandicoot4everr Sorry for the 4 day later reply, youtube is being silly again. LOL it's one of those mistakes that you can't believe you did. i've done some bloody silly things and later wondered how the hell did i do that :-D It's like the brain was on holiday and the arse was in control lol :-D
It's interesting, I have a number of local techs who "fix" electronics inc vintage stuff yet none of them replied to my email asking if they could fix my cassette deck. I fixed it myself thanks to the help from people online and watching your videos :) The right channel level was very low only when recording. Was a blown inductor.
If the HiFi stereo audio record/Play still worked, I'd keep it to play around with since I have a couple cassette decks as well as various ADC/DAC pieces and some MIDI stuff. It's a hobby as I'm too nice a guy to subject the public to the stuff I produce. :)
Hi watching all your videos and learning a lot thanks for all the info you share :) I want to put some newer modern films onto SVHS "that i own", I have a nv-fs90 Panasonic atm and a few for spares, What would be a good recorder to get the best picture quality of a film onto the svhs tapes ? on the 90 on playback is seems a little grainy but after a while it kinda gets better, not sure if its just the old original pre recorded tapes, So my idea is to refresh my favourites and keep the sleeves onto nicer svhs.
Why would anyone today want to record anything to tape? I can not recommend using such an outdated obsolete medium. These old machines are being fixed for people to get their personal stuff archived.
@@12voltvids Not unless you're out in the boonies and need something to watch when you're out at some grandma's house where that's all they have still (would still be sucky by today's standards, though, I'm lucky my tapes survived for so long as-is) I agree though, archiving these is about their use nowadays
I hate those things. The brother-in-law had one, it started doing the same as that one did, I looked at it and decided that I didn't like him enough to spend hours on it. So I told him I would need a manual before I could fix a Sharp VCR. I didn't like him much, or his choice of VCR so I needed very little excuse not to repair it. I knew he wouldn't bother to get a manual, so I never saw it again. He is no longer with my sister, she says "I have no idea why I even thought about marring him" I told her "I told you not to, but you didn't listen!" Such is life! I don't like him and I don't like Sharp! Strange how he always bought Sharp stuff! 8-l
We were using them for audio 35 years ago. I should haul out some of my subcarrier logs off satellite. Like "The New Age of Jazz off galaxie 5 tp11 3.4 and 4.4 MHz discrete. These were commercial music services on satellite analog FM subcarroers called SCPC and I have many tapes 8 or 10 hours long. BASF T200 tape. Just audio only. On the AFM hifi track.
I never liked the later mid mount decks i have a 1985 panasonic nvf730b one of my favorite machines an nv f55 from 92 an nv f75b with no audio only slight distorted audio ,and a jvc svhs that is working fine but watched a video recently and it has dodgy made caps on an awkward to remove audio board ,so i may sell it on .
The OCD in me wants so badly for you to put those screws in some sort of container or on a silicone repair mat, rather than just down on your messy work bench!
It is what it is. Was hopeful when I got it to play it would be good but no color and then the owner rembered the color went out 10 years ago. Gee thanks.
Very much what? Content? Personally, I always learn from the non repairable stuff as well as the successful repairs. You need to know when to cut your losses and bail.
@@zulumax1 I think he meant not very much inside that VCR. Basically an empty box. There was something in the video content wise. I just had a second fault not worth fixing. It's mine now so perhaps a second look when i have time before i gut it for a few parts.
I used to sell Sharp. Thought of them as junk, but some of their products were surprisingly high spec, even though the appearance wasnt great. I never remember working on them either. So they can't be as bad as we assume. They invented the first Ever Sharp pen and the first camera phone.
I have an old sharp computer monitor that displays the security cameras at my place in my office. It has over 61000 running hours in it now. Runs 24/7, I never turn it off. Going strong.
@@12voltvids I'd be interested in you doing a video on what your process is as regards capturing Firewire. I've struggled with it. I can capture s-video, composite, but I've never done SDI - which to me seems the obvious thing to do if you have DV / HDV VTRs with SDI. Ive just bought Dvd-R with Firewire. So, I'm going to try that out and see how good/bad it is to edit from the dvd image. My SONY DSR20P VTR has s-video and composite out, but I get no joy with Firewire since moving to Win 10. Although I do have a win 7 desktop hanging around, because I'm now loathe to ditch gear. I'm going to see if i can get that running dual boot with XP to see it that resolves the problem. To be honest, I did momentarily get the firewire going, but win 10 doesn't recognise my camera or vtr, and I thing this is where the problem lies. I've tried loads od drivers. Legacy is said to be the driver that will work for some people with SONY gear. Another suspicion is my pc. It has problems even with usb 3. Our technician just switched it off as it causes crashes. I was £400 lighter after he finished working on my pc and it still isn't doing what it should. Anyway, I'm not looking for solutions. I've spent over a year on it. But I'm interested in the gear you would use if someone (you) want to archive a MiniDV tape. Enjoying seeing you work on old gear. I was told BetaCam can't edit drop in edits that are very short. I had done an edit and I was abruptly told to re-edit it, as I had left a "breath noise" in the edit. I was told I couldn't edit it out, that I'd have to do a new edit. Ten minutes later, I presented the new version, as I was able to drop into the audio and take the breath out. I found BetaCam good to work with.
@@fusion-music I can do that but it is pretty straight forward. My PC is a windows 7 box. I use a gy- hd7000 but I can also plug in my hdrfx1 or hdrhc3 camera into the FireWire port on computer. I open the capture window in premiere and select dv or HDV mode. Never had any issues. That's one of the reasons i am in no rush to upgrade my PC.
Sorry ,you good i other things not on VCR's , this is to bee my job for 30 years into the stupid DVD was invented , i know the problem in this one , ,,,,, just a sensor,,,,,
10:56 I'm sure I can speak for most of the people who watch these - but I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge and experience on these machines.
Well you break your own promise and i'm glad you did because i don't know any better men for that kind job to fixing old electronics like VCR, DVD, TV's R to R, keep up with good work i love your videos and enjoy very much thank you
Would definitely see a video about you fixing your oscilloscope!
Uh oh. Looks like we got a scope repair video coming up.
Daaannggg. I tuned in cuz I am having this exact problem with this exact model haha. Got a couple of years out of it and it was only 5 bucks.
8 months ago had a video on a Sharp VC H820 with similar problems, changed out some sketchy caps in the power supply and all was well.
this brings back nightmarish memories of the decades that I spent fixing this shit and getting mentally sick, but having no choice but to do it just to make money. then i eventually finally retired and stopped and just hated the sight of any of this obsolete garbage, and anything with motors, i hate motors! i threw away all my motorized electronics and felt such relief. i now see these items as neanderthal, so seeing you do it brought back those memories, except that i now can smile about it because i'm over it and feel liberated. i appreciate your sharing and kudos for having found the problem and gotten it to work. yes, the color shit is basically a dead end unless you have the s/m, as you said, and even then it's hours on end to fix that. the best solution is to go to the highest bridge in town and throw it down into the rocks as you have some popcorn.
Yeppp i know. I felt the same way. Got out before it made me crazy. Now I don't have to do it. No pressure.
I picked up one of these at a thrift store for USD$6. I cleaned the heads and when I put in a tape to test it, I got sound but no picture. Sure enough, that ribbon connector beneath the shield in back was unplugged. I plugged it in and got a picture, but it was noisy as hell… for a few tries, and then it stopped threading the tape properly. The tape is riding too high up along the guides for some reason. It tries to rethread it, then ejects it. The guide to the right of the drum left a slight crease halfway up the tape as a result.
I’m not sweating it, I just thought me having a series of problems on the same model and also deciding it’s not worth the trouble was kinda funny. (The machine was also buggy - as in quite a few dead flies and carapaces inside.)
Dave, its not possible that the head drum is 180 out?
I put a head drum on the wrong way around once, all tapes showed monochrome, but recording with the heads on wrong produced a good colour picture.
See if recording gives colour?.
I was thinking about that as well. But if you watch carefully as he puts the drum back together, you will see that there's a small notch on the PCB where the grounding spring sits on, so I believe he did put it back together correctly.
@@crashbandicoot4everr Ahh i'm a twit lol :-D
I was thinking about the old machines, like my ancient jvc hr3320ek piano key.
Ahh well, the chroma processing is hidden in a beast chip, shame.
@@zx8401ztv One time I accidentaly installed the drum flywheel on my HR-3330TR incorrectly and the result was incorrect head switching and the picture was all messed up lol.
@@crashbandicoot4everr Sorry for the 4 day later reply, youtube is being silly again.
LOL it's one of those mistakes that you can't believe you did.
i've done some bloody silly things and later wondered how the hell did i do that :-D
It's like the brain was on holiday and the arse was in control lol :-D
It's interesting, I have a number of local techs who "fix" electronics inc vintage stuff yet none of them replied to my email asking if they could fix my cassette deck. I fixed it myself thanks to the help from people online and watching your videos :) The right channel level was very low only when recording. Was a blown inductor.
That vcr was sent to you straight from hell hahaha, keep it up love your content
If the HiFi stereo audio record/Play still worked, I'd keep it to play around with since I have a couple cassette decks as well as various ADC/DAC pieces and some MIDI stuff. It's a hobby as I'm too nice a guy to subject the public to the stuff I produce. :)
audio cassette player deck Sony tc-k35 running experience tell me sar
8.5 minutes in after no mode switch - well duh, it HAS to be a capacitor! heh heh I make a joke. :)
I had this model back in the day, but I ended up getting rid of it soon after. It was replaced by a Sony VHS player.
Hi watching all your videos and learning a lot thanks for all the info you share :)
I want to put some newer modern films onto SVHS "that i own", I have a nv-fs90 Panasonic atm and a few for spares, What would be a good recorder to get the best picture quality of a film onto the svhs tapes ? on the 90 on playback is seems a little grainy but after a while it kinda gets better, not sure if its just the old original pre recorded tapes, So my idea is to refresh my favourites and keep the sleeves onto nicer svhs.
Why would anyone today want to record anything to tape? I can not recommend using such an outdated obsolete medium. These old machines are being fixed for people to get their personal stuff archived.
@@12voltvids Not unless you're out in the boonies and need something to watch when you're out at some grandma's house where that's all they have still (would still be sucky by today's standards, though, I'm lucky my tapes survived for so long as-is)
I agree though, archiving these is about their use nowadays
Look at 8:00. There is three trim potentiometer at the motherboard, at top left near RCA. Is it possible to tune them and affect the color?
Those are for audio levels I believe.
All three of them? Thanks for uploading Btw.
Do these late-model VCRs have adjustable AFC and APC for the chroma circuit like the older ones do?
@@crashbandicoot4everr No
I'm getting unsolicited inquires for service recently from E bay (Do wood work as well)
I hate those things. The brother-in-law had one, it started doing the same as that one did, I looked at it and decided that I didn't like him enough to spend hours on it. So I told him I would need a manual before I could fix a Sharp VCR. I didn't like him much, or his choice of VCR so I needed very little excuse not to repair it. I knew he wouldn't bother to get a manual, so I never saw it again.
He is no longer with my sister, she says "I have no idea why I even thought about marring him" I told her "I told you not to, but you didn't listen!"
Such is life! I don't like him and I don't like Sharp! Strange how he always bought Sharp stuff! 8-l
I don''t care if he reads this or not, he knows I don't like him!
Dave have you heard of people now using VCR's as audio playback only....like a long play cassette deck?
We were using them for audio 35 years ago. I should haul out some of my subcarrier logs off satellite. Like "The New Age of Jazz off galaxie 5 tp11 3.4 and 4.4 MHz discrete. These were commercial music services on satellite analog FM subcarroers called SCPC and I have many tapes 8 or 10 hours long. BASF T200 tape. Just audio only. On the AFM hifi track.
I never liked the later mid mount decks i have a 1985 panasonic nvf730b one of my favorite machines an nv f55 from 92 an nv f75b with no audio only slight distorted audio ,and a jvc svhs that is working fine but watched a video recently and it has dodgy made caps on an awkward to remove audio board ,so i may sell it on .
What model SVHS do you have?
I'm pretty sure vhs-decode can recover the chroma from it.
analouge tuner only would of been good to put a digital tuner in these videos so best of both worlds!!!!
Hahaha, trying to fix it by banging stuf. My wife does that.
Good old Quake
The OCD in me wants so badly for you to put those screws in some sort of container or on a silicone repair mat, rather than just down on your messy work bench!
Sucks 2 B U
16:37 percussive maintenance works every time.
Aparantly so.
Nice. Do you want to see my camera collection?
Do you want to see mine? Didn't think so.
Oh, now I remember... lol
there aint very much in the newer video's is there
It is what it is. Was hopeful when I got it to play it would be good but no color and then the owner rembered the color went out 10 years ago. Gee thanks.
@@12voltvids haha 10 years ago
Very much what? Content? Personally, I always learn from the non repairable stuff as well as the successful repairs. You need to know when to cut your losses and bail.
@@zulumax1 I think he meant not very much inside that VCR. Basically an empty box. There was something in the video content wise. I just had a second fault not worth fixing. It's mine now so perhaps a second look when i have time before i gut it for a few parts.
maybe the cpu of your scope needs to be reflowed
I used to sell Sharp. Thought of them as junk, but some of their products were surprisingly high spec, even though the appearance wasnt great. I never remember working on them either. So they can't be as bad as we assume. They invented the first Ever Sharp pen and the first camera phone.
I have an old sharp computer monitor that displays the security cameras at my place in my office. It has over 61000 running hours in it now. Runs 24/7, I never turn it off. Going strong.
@@12voltvids I'd be interested in you doing a video on what your process is as regards capturing Firewire. I've struggled with it. I can capture s-video, composite, but I've never done SDI - which to me seems the obvious thing to do if you have DV / HDV VTRs with SDI. Ive just bought Dvd-R with Firewire. So, I'm going to try that out and see how good/bad it is to edit from the dvd image. My SONY DSR20P VTR has s-video and composite out, but I get no joy with Firewire since moving to Win 10. Although I do have a win 7 desktop hanging around, because I'm now loathe to ditch gear. I'm going to see if i can get that running dual boot with XP to see it that resolves the problem. To be honest, I did momentarily get the firewire going, but win 10 doesn't recognise my camera or vtr, and I thing this is where the problem lies. I've tried loads od drivers. Legacy is said to be the driver that will work for some people with SONY gear. Another suspicion is my pc. It has problems even with usb 3. Our technician just switched it off as it causes crashes. I was £400 lighter after he finished working on my pc and it still isn't doing what it should.
Anyway, I'm not looking for solutions. I've spent over a year on it. But I'm interested in the gear you would use if someone (you) want to archive a MiniDV tape.
Enjoying seeing you work on old gear. I was told BetaCam can't edit drop in edits that are very short. I had done an edit and I was abruptly told to re-edit it, as I had left a "breath noise" in the edit. I was told I couldn't edit it out, that I'd have to do a new edit. Ten minutes later, I presented the new version, as I was able to drop into the audio and take the breath out. I found BetaCam good to work with.
@@fusion-music
I can do that but it is pretty straight forward. My PC is a windows 7 box. I use a gy- hd7000 but I can also plug in my hdrfx1 or hdrhc3 camera into the FireWire port on computer. I open the capture window in premiere and select dv or HDV mode. Never had any issues. That's one of the reasons i am in no rush to upgrade my PC.
LMFAOO can you post the video of you blowing it up on patreon? i would die to see that you have no idea 😂
Why did you start fixing things again after promising yourself you wouldn't?
@@12voltvids understandable, do you still get a buzz when you get something working?
Sorry ,you good i other things not on VCR's , this is to bee my job for 30 years into the stupid DVD was invented , i know the problem in this one , ,,,,, just a sensor,,,,,
You sure about that? I fixed it didn't i?
SCOPE VIDEO NOW
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