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Pinch Rollers Hi8 Video Heads Select By Size not Model Teac Military VCR V-80AB V-800AB

Any help in obtaining parts would be gratefully appreciated. I'd like to find a US supplier of Hi8/Video8 pinch rollers where I can select the rollers by the actual part dimensions instead of Brand-Model.

I'd also like to find a supplier with the same selection for upper drum/video heads for Hi8 tape mechanisms.

I haven't contacted ASTI, but they might be able to help with the head assemblies.

The Hi8 video machines that I'd like to find parts for are Teac military AVTR airborne video tape recorder units. Some of the Teac Hi8 equipment has also been in use in airline aircraft as IFE in flight entertainment equipment. That particular division (aerospace products) of Teac was bought by a large military equipment supplier, Goodrich.

Teac wasn't/isn't a VCR/camcorder manufacturer, and the tape transport mechanisms may be made by another major manufacturer, although the circuit board of the video heads is labeled Teac (but no part number). The hub of the head assembly is dated (yy. mm. dd), and I've seen other brands of heads that were dated the same way, but can't remember which brands.

The head assemblies don't appear to have any special characteristics, just 2 record/play heads and a FE flying erase head.

-- Cheers, WB .............

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Wild_Bill
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I'm going to ask who really made those transports- I know somebody that used to service those things.

Reply to
Cydrome Leader

Fantastic.. thank you

-- Cheers, WB .............

Reply to
Wild_Bill

I really can't imagine who else there would be to deal with except Sony.

I'm pretty confident saying they had a lock on the market with Hi8, especially with decks. Besides Teac, Pioneer had one or two models and as far as I remember, besides the nameplate, inside they were identical to another Sony model.

Besides buying scrap units off ebay and crossing your fingers, it seems rather doubtful anyone is stocking any kind of parts of those, including Sony.

I'd guess it'll be harder finding NOS parts for those than beta ones at this point.

-bruce snipped-for-privacy@ripco.com

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Bruce Esquibel

Thanks for your comments. Sony is a likely source since, as you say, they were a major manufacturer in 8mm/Hi8.

Earlier Teac airborne units were VHS and U-matic (roughly '80s and '70s) while the Hi8 units which were still being used recently as flight mission recorders, began in the early '90s.

Yep, I had considered buying random Sony VCR and camcorder models to try to match parts, but then I'd get mired down with wanting to see if those units could be repaired. I'm already easily distracted.

As far as Hi8 units go, there may have only been a couple of other brands of Hi8 VCR units other than Sony. There were numerous brands of camcorders, but many of the Hi8 camcorder brands didn't produce VCRs.

In 8MM/Video8, Canon, Sharp, Samsung, even Memorex(Funai?) had some models, but the other manufacturers that had previously made huge numbers of VHS units didn't get involved (though some of them made VHS-C models).

Teac produced some commercial multi-channel data recorders, but no video equipment for the US consumer market, as far as I can tell. The data recorder models I've seen online have used audio-sized cassettes, or VHS tapes for storage.

-- Cheers, WB .............

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Wild_Bill

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