Magnavision CH8000 Acquired!

[ARC Tech-109]

Yeah I remember those... had one as a kid planted on the combo console, the feet marks are still present to this day as I still own the combo.
So what little I do know is they were not the most friendly of beasts, as with any LD player I believe the spindle motor is servo ref that's derived from the disc itself, I remember ours going like a turbine with a bad disc it couldn't lock to. I seem to remember everything in these was built in little caged modules with no particular order, vintagemanuals.com has the service manual for the Magnavox CH8000CH03 at $27.00. I don't know the specifics on the revisions as ours was traded in for a Pioneer VP-1000 which survives today.

[MIPS]

Originally Posted by ARC Tech-109

So what little I do know is they were not the most friendly of beasts, as with any LD player I believe the spindle motor is servo ref that's derived from the disc itself, I remember ours going like a turbine with a bad disc it couldn't lock to.

Okay so that makes sense. I noticed depending on where I had positioned the laser it would either race off or slow down, so at times it knows something's there but really wants the tracking to be working.

I seem to remember everything in these was built in little caged modules with no particular order, vintagemanuals.com has the service manual for the Magnavox CH8000CH03 at $27.00. I don't know the specifics on the revisions as ours was traded in for a Pioneer VP-1000 which survives today.

Yeah the bulk of the circuit board is shielded cans that you can pull out like modules. Compared to the PR-7820 it's way, WAY easier to service. I did see the sams are available however I've heard complaints these ones exceptionally low quality scans.

There's a guy on YouTube that made gears for a VCR from epoxy.

I never actually considered that! I've been repeatedly told to try 3D printing gears with a resin printer but I am not skilled enough to design it. This seems to make a lot more sense.

[MIPS]

Well I've made my attempt to repair the gear and it seems to work.




I made a writeup here: https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?th...layer.1250708/