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Originally Posted by ChrisW6ATV
Others may have better ideas, but I would watch the unloading attempt and reload that happens, and see if that same motor does both actions by reversing direction, and also look to see if it or another specific motor and/or belt setup does the actual cassette raising and lowering or not. If the one motor seems that it should do everything, you could try hitting Eject, and pulling the power plug right when the tape unload is complete, then try manually spinning the motor further in that direction while carefully analyzing/encouraging the cassette raising action. It could be a lubrication problem or something that got jammed.
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I have actually tried something similar to that where I tried to raise the mechanism by hand while the motor was running and I would get the tape out but then the mechanism would just go back into the VCR. There's only one motor running the entire loading mechanism from what I could see (besides the motors that are involved in kicking the tape out of the heads and back into the cassette case) and it does reverse itself when you hit the eject button compared to when it loads the tape (which it has no problems loading the tape) but when it comes to ejecting the tape it gets it halfway out of the VCR and the motor for driving the loading/eject mechanism just immediately grinds to a halt and when I try to nudge it along it doesn't help much unless I force it (which I know forcing it won't help it any and will probably make things worse) but it acts like the motor might have a dead spot in it.