Early 1980s Hitachi VCR Having Video Problems

[Ed in Tx]

Don't now about that Hitachi thing we had the VT-8500A manuals I used many times since I was the one there that worked on the things and it was a popular model. There might have been a training manual that was passed out at training seminars. That was pretty common. We were an authorized Hitachi servicer, had a subscription to the printed manuals as long as they were available in printed form.

Anyway you might search ebay and then save the search, set it to email you if one ever shows up.

Meanwhile I will look in my old pile of manuals next time I drag all that stuff out to see if that one escaped the dumpster...

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by Ed in Tx

Don't now about that Hitachi thing we had the VT-8500A manuals I used many times since I was the one there that worked on the things and it was a popular model. There might have been a training manual that was passed out at training seminars. That was pretty common. We were an authorized Hitachi servicer, had a subscription to the printed manuals as long as they were available in printed form.

Anyway you might search ebay and then save the search, set it to email you if one ever shows up.

Meanwhile I will look in my old pile of manuals next time I drag all that stuff out to see if that one escaped the dumpster...

Alright thanks, I really apreciate the info and I apreciate you searching for that manual for me in your stash. like I said I would really love to get this VCR going because it would be the oldest VCR I ever owned that was able to be restored to fully funtioning by myself. I actually had a late 1970s Panasonic toploader with the knob style tuner on it that someone at church gave me about a decade ago that had an issue with it only playing back videos in monochrome instead of color like it was supposed to and I wasn't sure how to fix that issue back then although I'm guessing it was probably something as simple as a bad electrolytic cap in the chroma board somewhere thinking back on it now, but like I said back then I didn't know about that kind of stuff and my mom didn't want me keeping that VCR around the house because I already had a lot of stuff laying around in my room that they were kind of wanting me to get it going and sell it or scrap it out because my room was becoming a fire hazard supposedly according to my mom.