though i got enough on my plate with 20,000 reel to reel tapes to digitize
as it is and video is a monster i know nothing of
I've never worked on that VTR, but I've repaired soem fo the Sony EIAJ
machines. The service manual is a must, you will never get it working
without. The really harrd thig to get are the video head,s and Sony have
a design defect in soem of their machines (basically a nut should be a
left-hand thread but isn';t) where the head beam can come loose and the
head tips get shattered by colliding with the drum. Anyway, I found
Betamax head tips, removed from the haed disk could be fitted to the EIAJ
head beam and got into reasoanble alignment. VHShead tips didn't work at
all, Tottally wrong inductace. Of ocurse find any VTR/VCR heads is hard
now...
-tony