Early 1980s Hitachi VCR Having Video Problems

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by Ed in Tx

You need a service manual to track that down, unless you have a ESR meter and happen find a bad capacitor by checking all on the board.

Well That's going to be kind of tricky because from what some of the people on here were telling me, the service manual for the Hitachi VT-8500A was only available as a seminar handout and I wasn't alive in the early 1980s to be able to of acquired one, and I have no idea if sam's ever covered this VCR or not in their photofacts, and even if they did I can't afford to spend $25 on their website to buy the manual.