VCR stops early in timer-recording

On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:47:01 -0800, fjp999 Has Frothed:

Could be a belt, drive wheel, roller, etc.. ever fix one?

Nope, never really had much luck with electronics and dont think I could do well with these fingers.

The machine just played a 2.5 hour vid with no problems. Would these issues be possible if it was playing with no trouble then have the issues with the timer?

thanks for responding, frank

Meat Plow wrote:

Try a different brand of tape first.

The start of the tape only has a small diameter to wind on to the spool, as the tape progresses the diameter increases and the amount of torque required from the drive motor increases. At some point if the slip clutch slips too much or a drive belt slips then it will cease to rotate, reel rotation sensor notices this and cuts the drive to avoid great loops of tape in the cassette. Likely to be the same for playing the ends of tapes as well.

VCR repair briefs on my file

-- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on

Check the obvious first. Make sure the tape quality is not set to SP and you have a two hour (T-120) tape. To get 3 hours, you would need to use a lower quality and/or an extended tape (T-160).

Bob

Thanks everyone for their suggestions.

I have another tape in the machine which gave me the same problem yesterday but not today. Got my three hours as instructed. And yes the machine is set to record EP as I am already getting over two hours even when it doesnt respond accurately.

Anyways, will mark this somewhat resolved, by itself, but will come back for more suggestions if, cross ones fingers, that it ever returns.

thanks again all, frank

Homer J Simps>

I have many tapes which play and wind fine while one from the same batch won't rewind and stops while recording. Some are just bad.