27 Dec
2006
27 Dec
'06
5:07 p.m.
--- Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
s
Going slightly
OT, I assume the same thing
would happen to any rubber rollers in VHS
players, and be the main (only?) reason why
VHS players start chewing VHS tapes?
I've not (yet) aeen a video recorder where the
rollers have turned to
goo. Not saying it can't happen, though.
The usueal reason for tape chewins is wear on the
reel-drive idler which
means the tape is not wound nack into the cassette
on eject (And may not
be properly taken up during play/record, so it get tangled round bits of
the machine). Or wear of the backtension band so
that the tape loops on
the feed side of the head during play/record and
gets tangled. Or wear on
the pinch roller so that the tape runs away from t
he
correct path.
Ahhhhh.
Assuming the heads are still good, a set of roller
s
and tension band is
not expensive. Setting up the back tension is 'fun
',
and you will need a
service manual for the machine (but hey, do you
really have a machine
that you don't have the service manual for?).
-tony
Service manual?!!! The only service manual I
know I have is for my car. Everything else
I have has manuals, but the service bit usually
requires ringing the manufacturer to get them
out.
I know I have the VCR manual here somewhere.....
Regards,
Andrew D. Burton
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk