Thanks for the video! You are a very good presenter. My tape doesn't play, I found the fifth screw thanks to you. Opened the tape and can see no problem at all. Your idea to transfer the tape to another housing is great. Thanks again.

Hi Scott, i am a video producer in Nairobi Kenya. I have a Panadonic Svhs that has a problem. It plays the tape well but when you rewind the tape when it reaches the end spills the tape and the tape gets stuck. The guys who have looked at it have only been able to remove the tape and to remove the jamming so that it plays again. They all claim there is a gear that has some problems. Then there is my DV 2000 sony Camera that creates verticle lines (Glitches) on playback. All my home videos are therefore in prison. I need an SVHS plus DV player(s). How can you help. I have subscribed. Happy New year Sott.

I didn’t use this video to fix it but I had a Rolie Polie Olie VHS that snapped near the end of the tape, and I fixed with a similar technique.

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Hey, I know its a 3 year old video, but you made many mistakes in this video. Let me list them. 1. You threaded the tape wrong; it is supposed to go over the metal guides on the top of the tape, not under them. 2. You should NOT remove the reels while the lock is engaged. Simply push the lock back and then remove it. If you take it out with the lock engaged, the lock will grind against the reel teeth and could possibly damage or snap a tooth off. [one tooth missing could lead to issues during playback, as that reel could lock incorrectly and snap the tape [again] 3. You don't usually need to do this, but when putting the top plate back on the shell, open the door slightly so that when opening/closing, it doesnt catch on the tape and wrinkle it. Cheers, and I am aware its for an emergency tape. The 1st one could have been the reasoning for the sounds in the VCR as the guide was stretching the tape in the wrong place.

Duuuuude --- you failed to notice that this particular tape-reel had a bayonet-type fastening for the clear upper disc... the upper disc wasn't heat-riveted in place on the center-hub the way most VHS tape-reels are!! You could have just rotated the disc counter-clockwise and removed the disc, then easily accessed the center-hub to re-attach the end of the leader-tape, and then re-mounted the clear disc onto the side of the center-hub again --- you didn't need to try to awkwardly finagle the taped end of the leader 'way down between the reel-discs and onto the center hub like that!

2:40 Before the release of the DAT format, Sony had a line of machines (Sony PCM-F1 for example) that converted analog audio to digital PCM over NTSC video (For the Europe market they had models that converted to PCM over PAL/SECAM video). It works with Betamax, VHS, U-Matic, anything that can record a video signal. One model (Sony PCM-601ESD) had SPDIF input and output ports as well allowing for digital-to-digital copies.

0:33 I’ve recently started going through my grandmas home vhs tapes, and, yes, the whirring of the vcr as it started playing our tapes was a little jarring after being used to our quiet devices since we usually stream our movies and shows. I laughed when you started talking about it being mechanical, it certainly is by all the noise it makes! 😂 Had to look this video up because I wanted to watch my copy of Lion King (knock on wood, hoping all the home movies are okay!) and realized it was stuck in the credits! 😢

You really should have cut out those twisted portions of the tape. Any badly-scratched, rumpled, or twisted tape-sections will allow oxide-particles to come off and get into the video heads, where they can clog them and make the VCR not work properly.

9:14 Actually, reeling the tape a little ways onto the takeup reel WON'T necessarily mean that that portion of the tape won't get played on your machine --- the VCR might spool off that portion of tape in the loading process, and thus it would indeed get played past the heads and rollers. The only way to ensure that the damaged portion of the tape wouldn't ever touch your machine's tape-drive would be to reel maybe three or four feet of tape onto the takeup reel.

5:10 An easier/quicker way to transfer videotape between reels --- lay the reels upside-down on a hard flat surface so that the reels are resting on their little bearing-nubs, and are free to spin like a top-toy (as the mostly-empty reel is seen doing at 5:20). (Pressing tiny dimples into the surface for the nubs to fit down into can help keep the reels from sliding across the surface.) Then find a small screwdriver with a handle that will fit snugly down into the reels' splined drive-holes; fit it onto the reel that you will be winding the tape onto, then spin the reel by twirling the screwdriver's shank in the appropriate direction. :D

It worked!!! 🎉🎉 Thanks!!!

So i got ejection working now i gotta get the tape motor working

Sadly mine are 8mm tapes and it broke in the middle so ordinary tape won't work also you contaminated that VCR with MOLD it could get fibers in the heads too I wouldn't have put that in an expensive vcr like that. You should of cleaned it or used a throwaway vcr.

Fortunately most of us around video in the 80s and now all ages around 50 ish know how to unscrew tape and remove spools as most of our home vid tapes spools were inserted into rental copys all over librarys of our countries ,buying them back off ebay 30yrs later from each other..😂😂😂

I chewed a 500 £ tape myself , I succesfully cleaned mould by hand by spooling the tape by hand with alcohol swab one end on the plastic level piece before the dip at one end and a folded piece of napkin the other and changed both regular and did the entire tape nicely cleaned of mould...then I spool it back the other way as I'm now at the end of the tape..so I think I'll clean it with napking as spool it so put this napkin so it entire length of tape and begin spooling ...a little way thru I stop to change cloth and find the tape has folded and crinkled tight over one side of itself , so I begin streaming tape out by hand to see it spooled crinkled and bent upon. Itself crinkling as it had gone. So I spooled it all out til the crease had stopped and tape back to normal ..I then slowly teased the crease out with finger against tape back n forth then tightly pulled it over the metal spin at end , very slowly I spooled tape back again very slowly removing the crease by the act of teasing the back part and pulling it tight across the metal and thus round upon itself on spool..very gently very slowly..then I slowly spooled tape back opposite way again until past all crinkled onto.the other side..now I'm about to take her back again..this time I'll go.all the way..the tight crease crinkle on the edge has smoothed out just leaving a middle crease along a length of about 48inch worth. Hopefully this should drop out...but what's the oven thing ??? How hot ?? And is it safe with a tape worth over £500 .???

Well done! I have this same VCR - unfortunately it doesn’t have the best playback. It artificially brightens and sharpens the image. I’d instead recommend a Sony SVO-1520.

Oh awesome this video confirms my suspicions - I have a Hitachi TRQ-701S, and it looks like the AX-50 does indeed share the actual transport/mechanism design with it (along with the Realistic 999B, Hitachi TRQ-730D and TRQ-750D)! So if you ever need to service it again and still have it on hand, the service manuals for any of those models would probably work for the mechanical parts (though the electronics aren't shared). Anyway, the problem was that rubber wheel that you cleaned up. The little arm that keeps falling down is the auto-stop mechanism, if the machine runs out of tape the arm will drop down and cut power to the machine - but your rubber wheel didn't have enough grip, so the big reel on the right wasn't taking up the slack, making the arm fall down and cut power. The arm was behaving exactly as it should, cleaning the idler wheel is what fixed it.

Good video

Hey nice video ur so fun to watch. I just recently found one of these off the street. Never worked with tape before, I mostly work in the box. Is there a way to record liek whatever you want to the tape and then run that signal out so you get the tape saturation, that’s really what I’m trying to use it for, do you do that?would you be able to make a video on how to do something liek that. Especially with like getting the sound recorded into your DAW. Or if you know where I might be able to go to find information liek that .Any information helps

Hey Scott I have a problem I have tried to record content from my VCR onto DVD but it won't record anything other than a blank screen and it has been doing this for the past couple of days and I don't understand why it is doing that for it plays a signal just fine but when it comes to recording it plays for a second then turns off

Hi I've also got a problem I put in a VHS tape into the machine yesterday thinking it will play correctly but now it is jammed in the machine and won't eject I am not sure if the tape has snapped or not as it won't let me use any of the functions for example rewind etc

Je ne peux pas croire que quelqu'un qui était encore jeune dans les années 70 soit déjà dans cet état

My dad ended his life when I was 7 but he always had a tape recorder with him. I was having some trouble getting the tapes to work and this helped. Thank you for helping me hear my dad’s voice again. ❤️

been doing this for years, for me, I would use a narrower piece of scotch tape and not take a chance on any excess nor messing with the width of the actual tape. touching the tape with fingers also destroys more footage. many alternatives to attaching the two ends.

How do you get the tape off the reels?

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Now I know how to avoid everything springing out like a Tom and Jerry cartoon! Thanks very much!

Is there any way to "iron" out the wrinkles in a tape when this happens so that section is viewable again?

Can u help me ? Please

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When you don't understand monetary inflation so you blame the grocery chain.

One time I wanted to play an old vhs tape but couldn't couse the tape didnt want to get in the vcr it just spits out the tape... turns out there was a piece of bread inside the vcr

I hope you keep making videos like these. We need more independent media and public voices. You are incredibly talented and have an amazing voice (both perspective and auditory wise).

A work of art!

This is great!

This is awesome! Did not expect to see Macho Man, bahahaaa

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Great job man

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This is brilliant!

I honestly can't wait til I can show my grandkids this in 30 years and say look, you can make a change!

Poetry. An absolute masterpiece on how to be a corporate douchebag. Boycott Loblaws forever!!!

Saved my ass with this video 😅

If you skipped to see the part that was not wrinkled, after the video is over if you reversed the whole tape, would the wrinkled part affect the VCR player or get stuck?

Cracks me up🤣 And people wonder why limp wrists from mapleland continue to be stereotyped, albeit in the funniest manners! Keep complaining - ya got exactly what ya voted for lol

Great video! I was watching a tape for the first time in ten years or more on my Philips vr 530. I had found a couple of tapes I had been looking for for more than twenty years. They only exist on VHS. So I watched the first hour a few days ago of tape one. Then today I wanted to watch the rest of it. But no. When I turned the VCR on it didn't load the tape but pushed it out while showing the error code 4 and turned itself off. I turned it back on and put the tape back in. It didn't load but showed the error code 2 and turned itself off. (I may have mixed up which was 2 and which was 4 now). I tried it several times-the same happened every time. I took one of the few tapes I had left from a long time ago, tapes I had recorded some documentaries on and kept, when I got rid of my other VHS tapes (like a stupid ....). It played fine. I took another of those old tapes I had recorded on, and it played fine. I tried to put the new tape back in the machine and it went as described above :^/ That was strange, so I took the other tape I had bought. It was still rapped in plastic! Same problem. Machine won't play and it turns itself off with an error code 2 or 4. It sounds like it won't open the flap, but I've tried it with the top off (not mine, the machine's). It grabs the tape fine but nothing else happens. It's really frustrating. I haven't been able to find any information on it.

Great video! same thing works perfectly for cassette tapes too!

20 Year Archivist here. Especially if there were particles coming off the tape, but more and more by default, after reassembly, get the folded portions flat under a good amount of spool (as in fast forwarding so there are plenty of tight tape layers holding the folded sections flat), then bake the tape. You will increase the longevity of the tape, and relax the base layer getting rid of the folds, preventing reoccurrence, vastly improving the transfer quality, and of course saving your heads from sticky shed Slough.