OMG , what a find. Did so many of these, that had been badly worked on !! Customers didn’t mind spending a lot of money to have them repaired or serviced. Anyone out there from the SES Staines days !! 👍🏼
Definitely and amazing piece if kit in this condition and truly amazing to work on. They were certainly abused as they got older and Betamax went out of favour but it is surprising how many good units are still out there.
What a find! I used to have one of these as a kid. Either the c6 or c7. Very similar and can't remember but I was the first kid in the street to have my own vcr and be able to record movies off the TV 😁
I had one of those! Bought it in 1981, gave it to a mate 6 years later when I replaced it with an Amstrad all-in-one TV/VHS jobbie. I never had any problems with the C7, last I heard of it it was still working fine in the late 90s.
That's a great story - they were really very reliable considering how early these machine's were in the development of consumer video recorders. I guess it no longer exists now?
@@MrBetaByte I lost contact with my mate 25 years ago, but I doubt the C7 still survives. They were reliable, but nothing is immortal. It'll have either died of old age or gone the way of the rest of its technological generation, consigned to the dustbin of history by DVR. That said my mate was an electronics engineer (he'd built his own TV completely from scratch, including making a wooden case for it, along with a couple of remote controls, the first one cabled, the second was infra-red) so who knows...
What a wonderful discovery in that condition. Lovely to see a C7 being worked on. I owned one and repaired hundreds (including doing head disk replacement with the concentricity adjustment!). Always amazed me the amount of technology crammed into one of those.
The head disk replacement is quite a magical thing! lol! I do have a C6 that I'll be doing the head disk on so the gauge will be featuring in that one plus the upper drum alignment tool. really an amazing machine for the time and this one is so clean it's really a trip down memory lane!
I sold so many of these in my early days at Dixons. The other way you can tell that this is the early model is the later ones had Betamax C7 & the beta logo in white on the panel above the tracking control etc. I had both versions when they were new, I wish the one I have now was in cosmetically as mint condition as this one is. Such a wonderful machine, I loved the sounds the solenoids made when the transport functions were changed. If this is an untouched early example, they had an inherent fault, which you didn’t notice until you played a “letterbox” recording of a widescreen film. As the white content changed the picture bounced horizontally, the stability was so poor it was hard to watch. My first machine had this problem but I can’t remember what the modification was, I’m sure it’s something you’ll have dealt with though. My second one didn’t exhibit the fault, so Sony had obviously corrected it. The one I have now is a later one & doesn’t have the problem. Really enjoyed this video, I look forward to the next instalment. Regards, Rob.
Repaired many of them for SonyNL. That's around 40 years ago. First problems occured where the timer / clock set (as far as I remember) buttons beneath the semi transparent lit on the upper deck left side. Can fix them if it was like yesterday. Love it. This almost unused one should belong to a Sony Museum. Hope one day you get the AG-7 Betamax videocassette changer as well.
I have the changer! Just not had the later C7 to use it with although I did briefly have one in for re4apir ages ago and it was a joy to watch! Interesting on the timer switches - were they unreliable quite early on?
One of my two caps just blew on one I picked up that was powering up but no tapes to test further, as soon as I put a tape in the motor ran to lace up but took longer than shoukd have(didn’t have the lid off to see what was or wasn’t moving) and then one of those caps blew. Is it worth doing all while there or is it ok to do the two like you did here?
What makes me so sad is how well built machines of the past were compared to now. Most 4k blu ray players are so badly built and so flimsy that just picking them up you think they are going to break.
So true but it is ultimately down to making a profit for the manufacturers. In the early days they really needed these machines to be as solid as they possibly could make them but it was early days so fundamentally they were good but those Sanyo capacitors and oh so many belts did give them a certainly life span relative to making them worth repairing. Today, things are designed to within an inch of working in so many cases!
They were used on a lot of late 70s and early 80s kit and they are now all failing. the metal dome section inside corrodes and eventually sticks shut/ flat.
Really very great machines and seeing the playback from this C7 it is definitely that much better than VHS at the time. Head disk alignment and upper drum alignment to come on the C6 machine project...
@@nickloughrey9841 The brackets are a bit interesting as none of the one's I have in the Sony kit appear to actually work with the C5/C6/C7 but thankfully we do have 3D printing so I should be able to fabricate something for when I change the heads on the C6 Mk 1 I'm working on...
OMG , what a find. Did so many of these, that had been badly worked on !! Customers didn’t mind spending a lot of money to have them repaired or serviced. Anyone out there from the SES Staines days !! 👍🏼
Definitely and amazing piece if kit in this condition and truly amazing to work on. They were certainly abused as they got older and Betamax went out of favour but it is surprising how many good units are still out there.
I know the world have moved on from Physical Media - but these machines are a sight to behold
So true...
What a find! I used to have one of these as a kid. Either the c6 or c7. Very similar and can't remember but I was the first kid in the street to have my own vcr and be able to record movies off the TV 😁
Super cool kid! I was in the same position having repaired a Toshiba V9600 which a liberated from my local TV repair shop.
These machines are incredible. There´s so much going on everywhere. Fascinating ingots and very substantial in their presence.
Oh so true.
I had one of those! Bought it in 1981, gave it to a mate 6 years later when I replaced it with an Amstrad all-in-one TV/VHS jobbie. I never had any problems with the C7, last I heard of it it was still working fine in the late 90s.
That's a great story - they were really very reliable considering how early these machine's were in the development of consumer video recorders. I guess it no longer exists now?
@@MrBetaByte I lost contact with my mate 25 years ago, but I doubt the C7 still survives. They were reliable, but nothing is immortal. It'll have either died of old age or gone the way of the rest of its technological generation, consigned to the dustbin of history by DVR. That said my mate was an electronics engineer (he'd built his own TV completely from scratch, including making a wooden case for it, along with a couple of remote controls, the first one cabled, the second was infra-red) so who knows...
What a wonderful discovery in that condition. Lovely to see a C7 being worked on. I owned one and repaired hundreds (including doing head disk replacement with the concentricity adjustment!). Always amazed me the amount of technology crammed into one of those.
The head disk replacement is quite a magical thing! lol! I do have a C6 that I'll be doing the head disk on so the gauge will be featuring in that one plus the upper drum alignment tool. really an amazing machine for the time and this one is so clean it's really a trip down memory lane!
I sold so many of these in my early days at Dixons. The other way you can tell that this is the early model is the later ones had Betamax C7 & the beta logo in white on the panel above the tracking control etc. I had both versions when they were new, I wish the one I have now was in cosmetically as mint condition as this one is. Such a wonderful machine, I loved the sounds the solenoids made when the transport functions were changed. If this is an untouched early example, they had an inherent fault, which you didn’t notice until you played a “letterbox” recording of a widescreen film. As the white content changed the picture bounced horizontally, the stability was so poor it was hard to watch. My first machine had this problem but I can’t remember what the modification was, I’m sure it’s something you’ll have dealt with though. My second one didn’t exhibit the fault, so Sony had obviously corrected it. The one I have now is a later one & doesn’t have the problem. Really enjoyed this video, I look forward to the next instalment. Regards, Rob.
Repaired many of them for SonyNL. That's around 40 years ago. First problems occured where the timer / clock set (as far as I remember) buttons beneath the semi transparent lit on the upper deck left side. Can fix them if it was like yesterday. Love it. This almost unused one should belong to a Sony Museum. Hope one day you get the AG-7 Betamax videocassette changer as well.
I have the changer! Just not had the later C7 to use it with although I did briefly have one in for re4apir ages ago and it was a joy to watch! Interesting on the timer switches - were they unreliable quite early on?
One of my two caps just blew on one I picked up that was powering up but no tapes to test further, as soon as I put a tape in the motor ran to lace up but took longer than shoukd have(didn’t have the lid off to see what was or wasn’t moving) and then one of those caps blew. Is it worth doing all while there or is it ok to do the two like you did here?
What makes me so sad is how well built machines of the past were compared to now. Most 4k blu ray players are so badly built and so flimsy that just picking them up you think they are going to break.
So true but it is ultimately down to making a profit for the manufacturers. In the early days they really needed these machines to be as solid as they possibly could make them but it was early days so fundamentally they were good but those Sanyo capacitors and oh so many belts did give them a certainly life span relative to making them worth repairing. Today, things are designed to within an inch of working in so many cases!
.TANKS. this mashin very similar sony t7
Not really - T7 have a lot more circuitry for the multi-standards and a four-head disk too.
💯🇹🇷⭐️👍bu cihazlara hastayım abi aynısından sırfır hiç kulanılmamış bir adette bende var çok kıymetli⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍
So great to have one that's never been used. Certainly cherish it but occasionally give it a run.
"Those awfully nice people at Sony, have asked me to tell you, you can now rent a Sony!"
Send me the link, quick! 🤣
i have a Fisher PH 470 boombox that had the same buttons all of them were bad & had to be replaced
They were used on a lot of late 70s and early 80s kit and they are now all failing. the metal dome section inside corrodes and eventually sticks shut/ flat.
أرجو الرد كم قيمته بالعملة الدولار وكيف احصل عليه وكيف عملية الشحن اريد فيديو T7 SONY
This is a C7 not a T7 although I do have a T7. This machine already has a new home.
Bought mine 79!..................... you needed a dti to reallign the heads . Superior to VHS picture quality ,
Really very great machines and seeing the playback from this C7 it is definitely that much better than VHS at the time. Head disk alignment and upper drum alignment to come on the C6 machine project...
@@MrBetaByte Keep the faith ! i used a DTI with homemade bracket at the time (mid 80,s)
@@nickloughrey9841 The brackets are a bit interesting as none of the one's I have in the Sony kit appear to actually work with the C5/C6/C7 but thankfully we do have 3D printing so I should be able to fabricate something for when I change the heads on the C6 Mk 1 I'm working on...
It's a shame that YT now uses AI to check the videos for quality. Now I can't watch the oil creeping down the axle.
AI... *sigh*