Sony Beta needs help! SL-HF360

[Eric H]

I'd like to have just one fully functioning Beta machine but haven't had much luck.

This machine will load a tape and play it, it will eject it if you stop it before it gets to the end of the tape, however it will not Rewind it or Pause it, that is to say those buttons don't function, the indicator lights for those buttons don't even come on like they do for Play and FF.

If you allow the tape to run to the end it will stop but you can't rewind it and you can't even eject it, at that point the unit acts like it's dead other than the display is on (Display is dim too if that means anything) I have to remove the tape by manually turning the drive motors until it unloads and ejects.

The Power button doesn't really seem to do anything either, I can't see any change in the display but if you shove a tape in the slot it will load it regardless.

Is this going to be bad caps or a blown chip in the control circuits somewhere?

My success rate with Solid State is around 10% so maybe I should toss it while I'm ahead?