Zenith VR3300 VCR

[Adam]

This is a neat VCR, the tape goes in sideways! At first it wouldn't play. What I found is that the tape wasn't being pulled out. Once I cleaned some of the old grease off those tracks, it worked fine. (The first picture has arrows pointing to what I'm talking about) Should I clean off all that old grease and regrease it with something?

This unit produces the clearest paused picture I've seen on a VCR. That picture I took is of the tape paused.

I'm looking for a remote for it, if anyone knows of one, that 4th pic is the best one of it I could find.

I also picked up a matching Zenith audio cassette recorder from the same era. I had less luck getting that to work. It plays the tape ok, but it keeps reversing sides every few seconds all by itself.