Another SuperBeta!

[@Bob-1802]

I got that VCR in mid-80's. Loved it. A pleasure to use with a stable picture.

[@AmiPurple]

Great video, thank you. Plastic repairing so frustrating. You seem pretty chilled about fixing plastics

[@livinlifetothefullest2750]

Especially Sony plastic...over time...

[@crashbandicoot4everr]

i knew it was the regulator the moment you powered the machine up. When you press the on/off button on the front, the solenoid that shifts the gears for front loading should engage. That clearly didn't happen here, and I've seen that fault before in a video by guess who, 12voltvids! He had an SL-HF1000 with the exact same symptom (clock display was fine but there was no power LED and no motor/solenoid drive.

[@more.power.]

thank you a excellent show

[@jameslaidler2152]

20+ years ago I wanted one of these. For a while I had an SL-HF430. I looked at the 900. The American ones didn't record B-I, only the Japanese ones did, or they had to be modified for it. I'd have loved to have had a 2000, especially with S-Video I/O. Way expensive though, and the controls? Complicated and unreliable. I guess if you could have found a front panel from a parted out one, you would have eh? Best of luck with this beast.

[@video99couk]

I'm aware that this Japanese model has BIs recording capability, and the USA ones don't (as they left the factory anyway). Really hoping I can get this one up and running, and also hopefully then modify to 110V or even 230V operation.

[@frankowalker4662]

9:30 You can see the green gear is on the top. When you reassebled the cassette loading mechanism, 11:20, you put the green gear on the bottom.

[@video99couk]

Green gear should be on the inside. See: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqfTdaeHeduCisU

[@frankowalker4662]

@@video99couk Oh, so does that mean someone had already taken the gears apart before you got it then ? If so, there could be many other faults from a bad repair attempt.

[@jasonhaman4670]

Kind of makes you wish they'd stuck to top-loaders. Much simpler, less to go wrong. My family's first VCR, a 1985 Video Concepts brand linear stereo VHS, the middle cassette carriage/basket drive gear was held in place by a metal pin stuck into the plastic carriage/basket frame, nothing to hold it in but friction. In the early 90's, it popped out, and kept popping out. Ended up leaving the top cover off and that gear out, pushed the cassette in manually, and put a broken-off hammer head on top of the cassette to hold it fully down. It worked reliably, unlike the front-loading mechanism. And that was LONG before the plastic gears became brittle and losing teeth.

[@ickylovelywilliam3961]

Vcr repairman here just to let you know alot of the sony trinitron and other crt vcr combo machine had a cappasitor issue and would cause a gear to grind or hear a high pitch when turning the television on by the standby button before powering the tv to a active state to watch.

[@Ragnar8504]

This makes me hope the SL-F73 doesn't have one of those STK regulators inside! Mine appears to be entirely dead though, not just some voltages missing. I know very little about its history, except it's got a handwritten sticker that claims the machine was in working order in 2007 and I found it in a skip. Not that I need a Beta machine but I couldn't just leave it there and I do own one unknown tape.

[@Ragnar8504]

Update: it doesn't. It has a very service-friendly and simple switching mode power supply and all that was wrong with it was a dry 4.7 µF/50 V electrolytic on the primary side. Once the top lid is off (two screws) it's two screws and two plugs to get the power supply out. One of the easiest repairs I've ever done and certainly the easiest VCR repair. The offending capacitor was conveniently placed next to two massive resistors that cooked the poor cap to death.

[@Petertronic]

Nice repair work. Hmm the ebay listing with "photo coming soon" thing didn't give me much confidence. Really hoping you get a good part. This brought back memories of my fixing a JVC hi-fi VHS I got for free from work, because it had been dropped onto its side, breaking the carriage and most of the tabs on the front panel. I got it working very well indeed, my first hi-fi VHS, and I still have it!

[@video99couk]

My first VHS hifi was a Philips Charly mech deck I picked up at the local dump. Took some patience to rebuild it but used it for years, and regret selling it now.

[@Petertronic]

@@video99couk Interesting! It was exciting times wasn't it? (Early 90's in my case) I clearly remember buying my favourite film at the time (Aliens) in HMV, and watching it with headphones on, experiencing a film with hi-fi stereo sound for the first time, it was incredible, it blew me away! 🎧

[@bobsbits5357]

power reg again my mate has a 950 i know he payed alot for it i saw alot of bad tape loaders in the sony bvw 75 decks just jammed and bad rubber parts i have alot of them 12 x sony BVW 75 i got a pallet of them the thing all were ok on the video side i payed very low money £25 each there are still alot of them around my mate did not know about the betacam ones

[@KylesDigitalLab]

Any downsides to using a Japanese VTR as opposed to an North American one? Other than it running on 100V. I'm thinking about buying a DVW-M2000 from Japan.

[@video99couk]

The NTSC Black level (IRE) setting is 0 for Japan and 7.5 for USA. You will find that in a menu somewhere so it's an easy adjustment. You may not need 100V, see my video on this subject: kzbin.info/www/bejne/paa0nmBsadFjkLc

[@paulstubbs7678]

I had a SL-HF100AS, it lost the control track so could not play anything. Many many years of disuse sealed it's fate, with it being stripped and sent to e-waste.

[@wiinzugriff]

Please inject 9V from bench-supply first; does it has to stay as original as possible? take something else, it is just 9V DC after all:)

[@video99couk]

If I can't get a replacement STK5441 then I will use a 7809 switched on by the 5V rail. But really I want to change it because if part of the regulator has failed, more of it could fail shortly. It's possible that it already has other issues.

[@zx8401ztv]

Hmm well you could connect a 7809 to the faulty regulator and switch the input with a relay and transistor+resistor, then you need to find a power on pin on the faulty reg. Yes very naughty but i did it years ago and it never failed. Who said "You evil bodger harvey" lol.

[@video99couk]

That's certainly the route I would take if I couldn't source a new STK5441.

[@martijnappeldoorn8686]

Ha! That’s exactly what i would have done! If the current draw on the 9v rail doesn’t exeed 1,5 A it should be fine.

[@zx8401ztv]

@@martijnappeldoorn8686 Very true, if the 7809 is bolted to the heatsink it should be ok. if the input voltage to the 7809 is 3 volts above the 9, more bodging will be needed ha ha :-D

[@martijnappeldoorn8686]

“Captain bodge to the rescue” as stezstix steve would say!

[@zx8401ztv]

@@martijnappeldoorn8686 Ha ha he just needs a cape held together with sticky tape and safety pins. Actually thats a bit too good :)

[@mohammedabdelhadi4946]

Plise explique an fraince😅

[@patarrota1986]

No has podido reparar el vídeo betamax

[@UHF43]

No siempre se puede a la primera

[@patarrota1986]

@@UHF43 yo tengo un vídeo Betamax Sony sl c30e lo he comprado nuevo a estrenar

[@rogerswift1983]

first

[@przemysawpawlinski5536]

This format wanted to be a loser. It has Beta in its name. Got it??? Beta - the second letter of the Greek alphabet. Uhmm... Second. Yeah.

[@azshaw123]

I'll bet it has the head clogging fault.