Early 1980s Hitachi VCR Having Video Problems

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

How is the capstan/pinch roller? If it ain't gripping the tape and controlling it's speed then the take up reel may be what is moving the tape (something that should not be allowed to happen).

Well I was watching the the capstan and Pincher roller assembly and even tried to see if I could push my finger up against it to see if I could get it to go up against each other more and it seems its gripping properly, I even tried recording a test tape and it didn't seem to make much of a difference whether or not I had switched the speed switch on the fly while it recorded or not it just recorded and played back at the same speed (which was a really fast speed.) Also it seems that the tuner that's built into the VCR isn't working right as I'm not getting any sort of white noise out of it and I can't get it to tune in my converter box for a signal source, it works by letting the converter box signal pass through to the TV itself but it won't go through the VCR's tuner, all I get is a blank black screen (just like I did with the VCR when I tried playing tapes in it before I got that part fixed.)