Zenith Model VR 3220 4-Head Hi-Fi VCR having Video Issues - Videokarma.org TV - Video

EdKozk2 · #1 12-15-2016, 12:24 AM

Did you clean the heads? Are you using a newer Tape to play back? Some mid eighties tapes are really worn. Post a few pictures. Make sure vcr to Tv cables are good.

Ed in Tx · #2 12-15-2016, 07:38 AM

Yep sounds like dirty clogged heads, or worn out heads.

Captainclock · #3 12-16-2016, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by EdKozk2

Did you clean the heads? Are you using a newer Tape to play back? Some mid eighties tapes are really worn. Post a few pictures. Make sure vcr to Tv cables are good.

I was using a tape from the late 1990s in fact it was the second Homeward Bound movie which is definitely late 1990s and I was also using the movie Rat Race which is from 2000 so its definitely not the tapes. And the video cables are fine.

Captainclock · #4 12-16-2016, 11:23 AM

I was thinking dirty heads as well but I wasn't sure because if it was that easy of a fix I could of just given the VCR back to my friend and told him he just needed to clean the heads on the VCR, but that's why I wanted a second opinion first.

Captainclock · #5 12-16-2016, 02:43 PM

I cleaned the heads and they were actually spotless not a bit of tape crud to be found in the heads, and its still doing the same thing. I have some pictures posted below of what the VCR is doing (still shots as I am not sure how to post video in the replies like I saw in the thread concerning the one guy who was working on the Mitsubishi HS-U51 VCR.)