panisonic nv 3020

[Electronic M]

One thing to be aware of with tapes that old is that some develop an issue where the playing surface of the tape becomes somewhat sticky and the tape will have so much friction with the head drum/tape path that it will slow the mechanism down below designed speed or outright stop it...When this happens the tape needs to be cleaned in order to be playable again.

Also it can be helpful to adjust the tracking and skew controls when it is that close to working.

Interesting content on that tape. Are you going to transfer it to a modern format and make it available?

I also have some EIAJ video tape machines(and a whopping 2 tapes) so if you get sick of having that box of tapes I'd be happy take them off your hands...Might even be able to transfer the video if my machines wake up well from a 2+ year nap.