@@misterpenguin3104 it's not just my town, all the near ones too, there are no thrift stores with electronics, they just appear occasionally in some market/fair, i'm in italy
edit: The chassis is held onto the circuit board with a couple sets of white plastic clips, the kind you use needlenose pliers to pinch close and push through the hole. That’ll let you access the main belt and mode switch. The first thing I do when I get one home is to take out the chassis to check the belts, and then clean the mode switch with Deoxit. Tape munching = gummed up mode switch 9 times out of 10. I returned one to a Goodwill once when I found broken gear parts inside. I picked up a pair of VCRs at an estate sale for $15 each a few weeks back - a Mitsubishi V4520 like you use, and a JVC with quasi-SVHS playback, complete with remote. Both of them had tapes lodged inside, lol. I did the basic cleaning and maintenance routine on both, andI decided to try out the Mitsubishi first since I never used one before. The output was pretty steady, I have to admit. Thing is, it felt really hot after doing three tapes, so I called it a day. Powered it on the next morning, and nothing. Not even the front display. Just dead. So now I get to poke around for bad capacitors. 12voltvids did an almost identical repair on a V4522, so at least I can follow that.
Dirty contacts in the mode select switch which is under the lower right side of the mechanism under the large cam gear. Sometimes running that switch back and forth will clean the contacts a little bit and it may start working on it's own for a bit but that's not recommended. Also there's another screw under the ribbon cable. Remove that screw and that will allow you to lift the mechanism up enough to get to the mode select switch.
It is a dirty motor switch. There are two screws. One of them is located hidden under the capstan white flex cable. You can then lift the transport from front enough without desoldering the cable lift white, or black top of mode switch off and clean contacts. Be careful with wipers on the top part not to bend them when cleaning. I put a light coat of dielectric grease just enough to coat the surface when putting mode switch back together and typically they won't oxidized if you use VCR once every so often. Mines is going on two years and VCR side still works as it sure, as use a Sylvania dvc865f which is the same pretty mich as that Sanyo to watch my prerecorded tape collection and actually been reliable since overhauling it. But also did change the capstan motor driver IC and diode as was bad when bought it at the thrift store over two years ago as well as most the capacitors including the smd capacitors on DVD player and deleted the head cleaner from VCR as manually clean the heads when notice excessive dropouts. Fixed way to many of them over the years. It good for watching my prerecorded tapes collection, as save wear on my SVHS decks use for transfering. It picture quality better then most 80's VCR but yes built quality not anywhere as good but they reliable enough once you fix the issues and easy and cheap enough to find when it finally wear out. Plus is HiFi and ability to manual track and turn off HiFi if tape deteriorating is a plus.
Outside of the belts, check the idler wheel on the top. You may need to remove it , clean the surface it goes on and reapply it. Hopefully it'll fix it. From what I see the tape up reel on the right isn't really functioning properly. That's the first thing I look at when a machine eats tapes. Pretty simple repair if you know what you're doing and you could save a lot of VCRs from going to the dump. The idler wheel is the thing on top of the VCR that right smack dab in the middle of both reels. Pretty much controls them for all functions.
Use phonolube. The actual gear doesn't need it but the surface the part moves over on the chassis and that part of the gear need the old grease removed and relubed.
No dice here. He has no capstan motor rotation. Probably a hall sensor issue or some voltage in the power supply is missing. If it is a hall sensor, you need another scrap VCR to take a working one from.
At this point, the only combo unit to use for digitizing is a Panasonic DMP series, the conversion quality is superb from any scource and that includes LD players on the composite input. For standalone VCRs, the quasars from the mid-late 90's are fantastic and last forever.
yes, dirty mode encoder switch the whole chassy has to be removed including the dvd drive in order to get to it. its not as complicated to do, as people think. its not turning or operating because the vcr doesnt detect the full load completed mode and shuts down. not the belts. lol
@@jr-pl9kjThe worst-case scenario is the kind that’s buried under a vertical tension roller assembly *and* you have to desolder the switch from a circuit board to open the dang thing up. I have one like that, a Toshiba I think.
@@CantankerousDave yeah i've seen a few of those, samsung, and sylvania has that and in G mechanisms that panasonic used have that too, but with the proper soldering tools its a cinch to deal with.
Belts are a good start also capacitors and cleaning the mode switch should help. Never saw that Mr. Mom DVD. I have lots of DVDs and quite a few VHS tapes. My VCR is also a thrift store find but not stereo which sucks. Also I have 2 capture devices for the PC and the last time I plugged in my ion device my PC just about had a heart attack. That's why I'm looking for a device like your little cloner alliance digitizer box.
I recently had a VCR eat a tape but it was down to me not having it level! it worked fine after I made the unit level! I was trying to digitize a tape at the time.
Even though i'm not Brazilian, i wish that too. There would be a lot more of those super cool Tec Toy and Gradiente game consoles surviving and available for affordable prices.
o meu mano br aqui em sao paulo tem varias lojas de usados bazar, feira do rolo. e equivalente a essas lojas de usados la, os usados la nem sao tao baratinhos assim
That was like watching one of those movie scenes with a steam locomotive barreling down the tracks full speed ahead and the lever is stuck and theres no stopping it. Best part was when you said "ill never get this put back together"....It was entertaining. I prolly wouldve done the same since it was only $5 lol
This unit looks like a some cheap Funai OEM deck. It have nothing similar to native Sanyo mechatronics. IMHO, avoid this decks, especially if it have DVD player integrated it. Best mechatronics have units from middle od 80, but it have also very early Y/C circutry, espacially very "lazy" DOC circuit. Best solution for using great mechatronisc from 80 and acceptable quality is taken FM-RF signal from head amp, and digitalising them by SDR VHS-DECODE software.
He most known for being the zany one in comedies back then. Ever see Night Shift with him, Henry Winkler, and Shelly Long? Or Johnny Dangerously (if not, go watch it)? Or a little indie film that flew under the radar called Beetlejuice?
If your going to digitize VHS, use JVC SVHS decks as player as have a stabilizer and good noise reduction with useable TBC. If you have to go with combos the best are the older Panasonic ES series as they also for some models have line TBC and 3d NR. The newer EZ are not that great and TBC not really a TBC anymore. The DVD/VHS combos Panasonics that were before 2006 are better. They also have a LSI chipset. Avoid JVC, and Funai/Magnavox/Sanyo/Sylvania/Toshiba which all later ones were made by Funai the line input are garbage compare to the Panasonic, even the JVC DR-MV series is garbage despite people claiming they are good, they are not even close and unusable for transfering to DVD. The JVC being worst then Funai especially the HDMI ones the up converter looks worst then the composite output. I use a Funai DVD recorder over the JVC as the line input pretty bad on those. Plus laser have a high failure rate and don't switch layer correctly even the professional JVC DVD recorders notice problem as they used the LG drives which are junk for recorder. Every single one come across recently had bad lasers. Early reviews kind of suggested that as well. Shock people on forums recommend them at all. Me I use a hardware capture card with a professional TBC and proc amp. For regular transfer where tapes are not damaged and people want a DVD the older Panasonic ES combo does great as has a very good line input with TBC makes the Funai VHS VCR as a player look as good as a higher end deck. The older panasonic combos are the only one used that the line input and svideo is actually acceptable on. The stand alone Panasonic and Pioneer DVD recorders with LSI chipset are the best for transfering to DVD. Yes the JVC had LSI digital board but unfortunately problematic as the laser were junk and digital boards overheated the two 1k SMD resistors were under size wattage and known to fail, or powersupply capacitors were junk as well as they used Chinese 85c capacitors and no rear fan and gets hot as digital board is in DVD recorder which powersupply right behind it, do had to replace every capacitors with 105c rated ones and modded them with a fan in rear. Only buy them to resell as people used them as one of few to have HDMI output for VHS as well, but personally hate them as line input garbage and up converter is garbage. Plus the high laser failures. Now I have stock of lasers for them as LG dvd burners for the computer use same laser. Every single one had bad laser to the point JVC sure have recall them as most failed in 6 months when they were new.
La sanyo ha fatto ottimi videoregistratori,parlo di modelli anni 80 e 90,quello nel video ha una meccanica funai,non c'entra piu nulla con la sanyo di un tempo..
Does America have dvd recorders with hdds built in as i'm in the UK and can do the same thing your doing and I use VHS to dvd recorders with beds and also do cassette tapes to cd
They exist but virtually no one I know still uses them, including the ones that do own one. Much easier to find shows that just so happen to floating around on the internet. 🙂
Emerald Coast Digitizing - you are so sweet - and I love your videos - and you'll never reply to my comment :) and if i were you i'd try to repair that VCR as a project - if I succeed - this would be great - if not - well , i've tried put it aside - and try to get back to it when you want
Dang your thrift store has a return policy! There’s 5 in my area none of them have any returns/refunds. your lucky man!
you are lucky to have thrift stores
@@namesurname4666 you don’t have thrift stores how small is your town?
@@misterpenguin3104 it's not just my town, all the near ones too, there are no thrift stores with electronics, they just appear occasionally in some market/fair, i'm in italy
sometimes vcr wont work correctly when its open. light can make the sensor confuse
if it says funai on the back, avoid it.
edit: The chassis is held onto the circuit board with a couple sets of white plastic clips, the kind you use needlenose pliers to pinch close and push through the hole. That’ll let you access the main belt and mode switch.
The first thing I do when I get one home is to take out the chassis to check the belts, and then clean the mode switch with Deoxit. Tape munching = gummed up mode switch 9 times out of 10. I returned one to a Goodwill once when I found broken gear parts inside.
I picked up a pair of VCRs at an estate sale for $15 each a few weeks back - a Mitsubishi V4520 like you use, and a JVC with quasi-SVHS playback, complete with remote. Both of them had tapes lodged inside, lol. I did the basic cleaning and maintenance routine on both, andI decided to try out the Mitsubishi first since I never used one before. The output was pretty steady, I have to admit.
Thing is, it felt really hot after doing three tapes, so I called it a day. Powered it on the next morning, and nothing. Not even the front display. Just dead. So now I get to poke around for bad capacitors. 12voltvids did an almost identical repair on a V4522, so at least I can follow that.
Dirty contacts in the mode select switch which is under the lower right side of the mechanism under the large cam gear. Sometimes running that switch back and forth will clean the contacts a little bit and it may start working on it's own for a bit but that's not recommended. Also there's another screw under the ribbon cable. Remove that screw and that will allow you to lift the mechanism up enough to get to the mode select switch.
It is a dirty motor switch. There are two screws. One of them is located hidden under the capstan white flex cable. You can then lift the transport from front enough without desoldering the cable lift white, or black top of mode switch off and clean contacts. Be careful with wipers on the top part not to bend them when cleaning. I put a light coat of dielectric grease just enough to coat the surface when putting mode switch back together and typically they won't oxidized if you use VCR once every so often.
Mines is going on two years and VCR side still works as it sure, as use a Sylvania dvc865f which is the same pretty mich as that Sanyo to watch my prerecorded tape collection and actually been reliable since overhauling it. But also did change the capstan motor driver IC and diode as was bad when bought it at the thrift store over two years ago as well as most the capacitors including the smd capacitors on DVD player and deleted the head cleaner from VCR as manually clean the heads when notice excessive dropouts. Fixed way to many of them over the years.
It good for watching my prerecorded tapes collection, as save wear on my SVHS decks use for transfering. It picture quality better then most 80's VCR but yes built quality not anywhere as good but they reliable enough once you fix the issues and easy and cheap enough to find when it finally wear out. Plus is HiFi and ability to manual track and turn off HiFi if tape deteriorating is a plus.
Outside of the belts, check the idler wheel on the top. You may need to remove it , clean the surface it goes on and reapply it. Hopefully it'll fix it. From what I see the tape up reel on the right isn't really functioning properly. That's the first thing I look at when a machine eats tapes. Pretty simple repair if you know what you're doing and you could save a lot of VCRs from going to the dump. The idler wheel is the thing on top of the VCR that right smack dab in the middle of both reels. Pretty much controls them for all functions.
Use phonolube. The actual gear doesn't need it but the surface the part moves over on the chassis and that part of the gear need the old grease removed and relubed.
No dice here. He has no capstan motor rotation. Probably a hall sensor issue or some voltage in the power supply is missing. If it is a hall sensor, you need another scrap VCR to take a working one from.
At this point, the only combo unit to use for digitizing is a Panasonic DMP series, the conversion quality is superb from any scource and that includes LD players on the composite input. For standalone VCRs, the quasars from the mid-late 90's are fantastic and last forever.
If you could get the chassis out I recommend cleaning the mode switch. That is a common problem on many VCR's.
yes, dirty mode encoder switch the whole chassy has to be removed including the dvd drive in order to get to it. its not as complicated to do, as people think. its not turning or operating because the vcr doesnt detect the full load completed mode and shuts down. not the belts. lol
I was seriously confused the first time I opened up a machine that used an optical system instead of a physical switch…
@@CantankerousDave yes those optical type servo control designs are confusing but still fixable, and more reliable. many vcrs use both.
@@jr-pl9kjThe worst-case scenario is the kind that’s buried under a vertical tension roller assembly *and* you have to desolder the switch from a circuit board to open the dang thing up. I have one like that, a Toshiba I think.
@@CantankerousDave yeah i've seen a few of those, samsung, and sylvania has that and in G mechanisms that panasonic used have that too, but with the proper soldering tools its a cinch to deal with.
Belts are a good start also capacitors and cleaning the mode switch should help. Never saw that Mr. Mom DVD.
I have lots of DVDs and quite a few VHS tapes. My VCR is also a thrift store find but not stereo which sucks. Also I have 2 capture devices for the PC and the last time I plugged in my ion device my PC just about had a heart attack. That's why I'm looking for a device like your little cloner alliance digitizer box.
The reason the tape keeps getting chewed is the mode switch is dirty most likely gummed up and needs cleaning.
I recently had a VCR eat a tape but it was down to me not having it level! it worked fine after I made the unit level! I was trying to digitize a tape at the time.
I think there's a hidden screw under the ribbon cables. I've already had one with a Philips VCR.
I wish thriftstores existed in Brazil. I would be a much happier man. Cool thing you have there. Cool stuff man
Even though i'm not Brazilian, i wish that too. There would be a lot more of those super cool Tec Toy and Gradiente game consoles surviving and available for affordable prices.
o meu mano br aqui em sao paulo tem varias lojas de usados bazar, feira do rolo. e equivalente a essas lojas de usados la, os usados la nem sao tao baratinhos assim
Need to get you one of these from Ebay VHS Video Cassette Tape Winding Key Respooling Tool Spill Out Rewind tool. Great videos as always
maybe try cleaning the mode switch on the vcr
on that sanyo vcr dvd combo try cleaning the mode switch
Mr. Mom is classic Keaton!
That was like watching one of those movie scenes with a steam locomotive barreling down the tracks full speed ahead and the lever is stuck and theres no stopping it. Best part was when you said "ill never get this put back together"....It was entertaining. I prolly wouldve done the same since it was only $5 lol
and you still have the return policy😆
This unit looks like a some cheap Funai OEM deck. It have nothing similar to native Sanyo mechatronics. IMHO, avoid this decks, especially if it have DVD player integrated it. Best mechatronics have units from middle od 80, but it have also very early Y/C circutry, espacially very "lazy" DOC circuit. Best solution for using great mechatronisc from 80 and acceptable quality is taken FM-RF signal from head amp, and digitalising them by SDR VHS-DECODE software.
Do you guys fix and convert old Cassette Tapes?
i do, tape deck repairs and can convert tapes to mp3
im pretty sure mr mom was the main reason ppl didn't want keaton to play batman
Hahahahhaha!
He most known for being the zany one in comedies back then. Ever see Night Shift with him, Henry Winkler, and Shelly Long? Or Johnny Dangerously (if not, go watch it)? Or a little indie film that flew under the radar called Beetlejuice?
@@CantankerousDave well he didnt find a night shift or beetlejuice dvd
@EmeraldCoastDigitizing Do you know Gigito from the VHS BREAK Channel?
Instead of using dozens of computers connected to VCR players and camcorders, why not connect multiple VCR players to a single computer?
i got INSTANT chills as soon as i saw that vcr...
mabye the belts are loose, that's why it eats the tape.
You need a VHS head cleaner!
I have a panasonic blue line vhs player that the tape stops after a few seconds.
Hmm probably the tape. Or the tape moving sensor whatever it’s called
@@EmeraldCoastDigitizing will check the sensor.
Thanks
Hi i,m watching your channel and i think that you should be given a congressional medal for your work- good luck and thank you
Why would you buy this at all? Even when they aren’t broken, the DVD VCR combo units are junk. They can’t do either one right.
If your going to digitize VHS, use JVC SVHS decks as player as have a stabilizer and good noise reduction with useable TBC. If you have to go with combos the best are the older Panasonic ES series as they also for some models have line TBC and 3d NR. The newer EZ are not that great and TBC not really a TBC anymore. The DVD/VHS combos Panasonics that were before 2006 are better. They also have a LSI chipset. Avoid JVC, and Funai/Magnavox/Sanyo/Sylvania/Toshiba which all later ones were made by Funai the line input are garbage compare to the Panasonic, even the JVC DR-MV series is garbage despite people claiming they are good, they are not even close and unusable for transfering to DVD. The JVC being worst then Funai especially the HDMI ones the up converter looks worst then the composite output. I use a Funai DVD recorder over the JVC as the line input pretty bad on those. Plus laser have a high failure rate and don't switch layer correctly even the professional JVC DVD recorders notice problem as they used the LG drives which are junk for recorder. Every single one come across recently had bad lasers. Early reviews kind of suggested that as well. Shock people on forums recommend them at all.
Me I use a hardware capture card with a professional TBC and proc amp. For regular transfer where tapes are not damaged and people want a DVD the older Panasonic ES combo does great as has a very good line input with TBC makes the Funai VHS VCR as a player look as good as a higher end deck. The older panasonic combos are the only one used that the line input and svideo is actually acceptable on. The stand alone Panasonic and Pioneer DVD recorders with LSI chipset are the best for transfering to DVD.
Yes the JVC had LSI digital board but unfortunately problematic as the laser were junk and digital boards overheated the two 1k SMD resistors were under size wattage and known to fail, or powersupply capacitors were junk as well as they used Chinese 85c capacitors and no rear fan and gets hot as digital board is in DVD recorder which powersupply right behind it, do had to replace every capacitors with 105c rated ones and modded them with a fan in rear. Only buy them to resell as people used them as one of few to have HDMI output for VHS as well, but personally hate them as line input garbage and up converter is garbage. Plus the high laser failures. Now I have stock of lasers for them as LG dvd burners for the computer use same laser. Every single one had bad laser to the point JVC sure have recall them as most failed in 6 months when they were new.
Five bucks, worth it just to trash it. Part it out, and you save the dump from a few more parts.
Just being a Sanyo brand vcr might have something to do with it?
I didn’t have high expectations
I have 2 of the same ones one says Sanyo, other is Emerson brand. Both are garbage. I just held onto em for parts.
La sanyo ha fatto ottimi videoregistratori,parlo di modelli anni 80 e 90,quello nel video ha una meccanica funai,non c'entra piu nulla con la sanyo di un tempo..
Sanyo had pretty good products when they made their own, later they seemingly started rebadging cheaper devices for the budget market.
Does America have dvd recorders with hdds built in as i'm in the UK and can do the same thing your doing and I use VHS to dvd recorders with beds and also do cassette tapes to cd
They exist but virtually no one I know still uses them, including the ones that do own one. Much easier to find shows that just so happen to floating around on the internet. 🙂
Noooo I need mr.mom on dvd 😭😭😂
I hate those Funai VCRs with a passion. Thrown together so cheaply. Your mode switch is dirty, which is common on these crap machines
i call SANYO SAYNO XD
Emerald Coast Digitizing - you are so sweet - and I love your videos - and you'll never reply to my comment :)
and if i were you i'd try to repair that VCR as a project - if I succeed - this would be great - if not - well , i've tried
put it aside - and try to get back to it when you want
Quit saying the “you’ll never reply” you say that all the time. Stop!
2:06 yes i am angry (why woud you put this in the trashcan whitout destroying it?)
Destroying Veggie Tales tapes should be a public service. Thank you 🫡 😁