should have never bought this SANYO VCR

[@julianmartan]

sometimes vcr wont work correctly when its open. light can make the sensor confuse

[@misterpenguin3104]

Dang your thrift store has a return policy! There’s 5 in my area none of them have any returns/refunds. your lucky man!

[@namesurname4666]

you are lucky to have thrift stores

[@misterpenguin3104]

@@namesurname4666 you don’t have thrift stores how small is your town?

[@namesurname4666]

@@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

[@YoshiRocks2244]

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.

[@CantankerousDave]

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.

[@edp9821]

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.

[@edp9821]

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.

[@speed_rider362]

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.

[@tyx823]

if it says funai on the back, avoid it.

[@douglashoff95]

If you could get the chassis out I recommend cleaning the mode switch. That is a common problem on many VCR's.

[@jr-pl9kj]

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

[@CantankerousDave]

I was seriously confused the first time I opened up a machine that used an optical system instead of a physical switch…

[@jr-pl9kj]

@@CantankerousDave yes those optical type servo control designs are confusing but still fixable, and more reliable. many vcrs use both.

[@CantankerousDave]

@@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.

[@jr-pl9kj]

@@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.

[@coondogtheman]

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.

[@vhs2dvd537]

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

[@j.w2000]

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.

[@gabrielv.4358]

I wish thriftstores existed in Brazil. I would be a much happier man. Cool thing you have there. Cool stuff man

[@ElectroPotato]

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.

[@julianmartan]

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

[@AllboroLCD]

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.

[@jik7864]

I think there's a hidden screw under the ribbon cables. I've already had one with a Philips VCR.

[@speedyboishan87]

The reason the tape keeps getting chewed is the mode switch is dirty most likely gummed up and needs cleaning.

[@cblakemusic]

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

[@TheMediaHoarder]

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.

[@tabbyshack]

Mr. Mom is classic Keaton!

[@maciekgd]

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.

[@davidford1991]

on that sanyo vcr dvd combo try cleaning the mode switch

[@stereomann83]

maybe try cleaning the mode switch on the vcr

[@MrTCTheOG]

Do you guys fix and convert old Cassette Tapes?

[@aronslegogbcs1057]

i do, tape deck repairs and can convert tapes to mp3

[@MordysSubs]

Instead of using dozens of computers connected to VCR players and camcorders, why not connect multiple VCR players to a single computer?

[@kickflipdemon]

im pretty sure mr mom was the main reason ppl didn't want keaton to play batman

[@EmeraldCoastDigitizing]

Hahahahhaha!

[@CantankerousDave]

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?

[@kickflipdemon]

@@CantankerousDave well he didnt find a night shift or beetlejuice dvd

[@ivsonbarbosa2849]

@EmeraldCoastDigitizing Do you know Gigito from the VHS BREAK Channel?

[@digjunk3d]

and you still have the return policy😆

[@tookeydookey]

Batman '89 is better than Mr. Mom LoL🤣🤣 Pro tip: All Funai combos are made this way, the reason why the VCR mechanism doesn't wanna come out is cuz there's a screw under the solder connection on the board and it lifts up the whole chassis - by an inch or so. The solder connection is required to unsolder if you wanna take the whole thing apart in one piece. 12voltvids and Norcal715 have done several videos on these combos so I'd recommend checking them out if you're serious about getting access to the mode switch!😄👌

[@EmeraldCoastDigitizing]

Yes!

[@codytylerhays9224]

You need a VHS head cleaner!

[@kalidescopechannel8242]

mabye the belts are loose, that's why it eats the tape.

[@Dsun4456]

Just being a Sanyo brand vcr might have something to do with it?

[@EmeraldCoastDigitizing]

I didn’t have high expectations

[@jims_junk]

I have 2 of the same ones one says Sanyo, other is Emerson brand. Both are garbage. I just held onto em for parts.

[@giuseppelavecchia775]

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..

[@DoubleMonoLR]

Sanyo had pretty good products when they made their own, later they seemingly started rebadging cheaper devices for the budget market.

[@OLD-TECH23]

i got INSTANT chills as soon as i saw that vcr...

[@gordon3178]

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

[@nooneinpart]

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. 🙂

[@laserfilmlab]

I have a panasonic blue line vhs player that the tape stops after a few seconds.

[@EmeraldCoastDigitizing]

Hmm probably the tape. Or the tape moving sensor whatever it’s called

[@laserfilmlab]

@@EmeraldCoastDigitizing will check the sensor. Thanks

[@Leo-asimplelife]

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

[@Tristand0920]

I hate those Funai VCRs with a passion. Thrown together so cheaply. Your mode switch is dirty, which is common on these crap machines

[@fiat250]

2:06 yes i am angry (why woud you put this in the trashcan whitout destroying it?)

[@williamberger2178]

Five bucks, worth it just to trash it. Part it out, and you save the dump from a few more parts.

[@misterpenguin3104]

Noooo I need mr.mom on dvd 😭😭😂

[@SmilyTheMare]

i call SANYO SAYNO XD

[@justplayinggames963]

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

[@EmeraldCoastDigitizing]

Quit saying the “you’ll never reply” you say that all the time. Stop!

[@lmoore3rd]

Destroying Veggie Tales tapes should be a public service. Thank you 🫡 😁