SuperBeta SL-HF600 part 4. Super progress then....

[@honestguy7764]

We should be able to extract all the knowledge of people like you and be able to download somehow. Otherwise it would lost forever

[@more.power.]

Thank you DVD players look so much easier to work on. Love the Techmoan tea mug.

[@pauledwards2817]

Gosh Sony, it looks designed to fail. Keep at it, your patience and dedication will be rewarded.

[@Watcher3223]

_"Gosh Sony, it looks designed to fail."_ No. Let's be fair and have a little perspective. How old is this machine? If it's over 30 years old and it's starting to have problems, then that's actually pretty good. There is no such thing as a perfect design and nothing lasts forever, especially without service and repair from time to time.

[@micksroversmg558]

Love it new subscriber!! Love all my old school tec and cars do you repair retro gaming stuff?

[@video99couk]

I don't usually repair retro gaming though I did have to fix something on my VIC-20 on a Christmas special I did about 2 years ago: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZWuaGNjZ7-jmNk

[@bobsbits5357]

why you just save the red case of the c20 i bad c20 will come along pne day i allways swap things around up set people

[@chillidogkev]

The mechanism click of death...what a nightmare machine. Keep at it!

[@discoordination]

Nice repair!

[@wmelliott3802]

Excellent job 👍 Edit : I spoke to soon but I am certain that you will get this machine running like a wee mouse chewing paper.

[@Bob-1802]

I got a SLHF-600 and its big brother SLHF-900 in the 80's if I remember the later model name correctly. The 600 was mechanically noisy compared to the 900 that was smooth for any mechanical operations even when loading/unloading a cassette. Both had great picture quality on a Sony XBR.

[@dv_vid]

Does Beta HiFi use depth multiplexing and a separate pair of audio heads like VHS, or does it use 2 heads with the sound carrier inserted into the RF?

[@video99couk]

Both! NTSC uses sound carrier in RF. PAL uses depth multiplexing with extra heads, like VHS.

[@lodizaki9611]

فيديو رائع جدا

[@Petertronic]

Hmm. If one leaf contact was dirty maybe others are too. Should have used microswitches, Sony!

[@video99couk]

The problem with not stopping unlace doesn't use a switch, it uses the tape end sensor. Odd that it should fail at the same time as the cassette-in switch. Looks electronic.

[@MyPOLYSTAR]

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[@160rpm]

I have a silver C20 that needs a new gear for the left side of the loading mechanism, if you have any solid spares 😆

[@video99couk]

Yes I could probably supply one, but I'm tied up now until about the second week of September. Email me after then on [e-mail]

[@zx8401ztv]

You were doing so well, then utter madness took hold again :-( I would say it was a bad mode switch, but i'm sure you have been there already. That mucky switch that didnt connect when fully wrapped was annoying. I felt sorry for you, two steps forward, then 5 steps back.

[@video99couk]

No mode switch in these.

[@Thepaddster]

I know I've said it before and you disagreed but if only Sony had allowed other (more than just Sanyo, and well after they should have, Toshiba) manufacturers to design and sell machines. You'd have machines with as much functionality, but with less complicated designs. Also VHS would have lost in my estimation.

[@video99couk]

Manufacturers chose which format they wanted to buy into. Sony "allowed" anyone who wanted to, to join them. A few other manufacturers did market Beta machines including NEC and Aiwa. I think that if Philips hadn't gone off on a tangent with V2000, they probably would have joined Beta too.

[@clyth41]

I've come to the conclusion that Betamax sucks.. Lol... I feel your pain bro... 😢😊

[@video99couk]

I wouldn't say that. VHS machines of the same age can be just as troublesome. And V2000 are invariably much worse.

[@frankowalker4662]

So close. This is why I don't try to fix mechanical faults. Ha ha.

[@video99couk]

It may be electronic. Bit of a coincidence that both the cassette-in and tape end/unlace end detector both malfunctioned at the same time.

[@A2Z1Two3]

Do you not have any friends that will 3D print parts for these repairs to save scavenging other machines?

[@video99couk]

I have a 3D printer but the part which broke is tiny, with near microscopic details on it.