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Originally Posted by pac.attack76
That was the thing back in the 90's. Used to hear people saying if you don't use a rewinder, your vcr will wear out. Never bothered as I never had a problem with it. Always just seemed easier to leave it in there and just let it rewind. Most of them go into rewind anyway when they hit the end.
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That's the way it was with my parents VCR once it hit the end of the tape it would automatically rewind so we didn't think anything of it. my parents VCR (their first one anyways which was a belated wedding gift for them from my grandmother was a 1990 vintage Goldstar made Zenith VRG75 2 head mono VCR and it got used quite a bit before it was decommissioned and replaced with a Zenith 4-Head Hi-Fi VCR that my parents bought in 1996 along with a Zenith 19" TV (they were both bought from Elder-Beerman's). the Zenith VRG75 was then used in the basement with my Dad's 1985 Vintage Zenith Space Command TV (which both failed around the same time, my dad's Zenith Space Command TV had a failing picture tube as the picture on it was getting pretty dim and the colors were getting really dull looking and I was trying to fix it the best I could but it just wouldn't work so it went to the recyclers, the VCR had a failed chroma board I think is what it was, it was the removeable board assembly that sat behind the head assembly and when I tried to fix it some traces lifted on it so I tried going to a local repair place to see if they had any spare parts laying around and they just told me that they didn't have the part I was looking for and it wasn't worth fixing even if they did have the part laying around, so then that went to the recycler as well.)