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03-28-2006, 12:43 PM
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Old Tatung
I have an old Tatung VCR from the early 80's that was purchased new. I will post pics when I get home.
Anyway, I thought it would be interesting to make it work again. It served a good 16 years before I bought the Sharp VCR I have now. The problem is, when a tape is inserted and I press play, it will start all of the operations and bring the tape most of the way onto the head, but then it will just sit there for a few seconds before retracting and shutting off. The tape never starts turning. Any ideas what this could be? Could it be a relay of some kind? 
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03-28-2006, 01:07 PM
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It's possible you have a belt or idler wheel slipping. The rubber perishes after so many years and needs to be renewed. I'm not a VCR expert but this has been my observation.
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03-28-2006, 05:20 PM
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prb shows an idler tire ST1.77 for model VRH8300U
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03-28-2006, 05:33 PM
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 I'm not sure what you mean by "ST1.77" or "PRB". Since I haven't pulled it out for a while, I'm going to go mess with it and maybe even bring back a video.EDIT: HERE are a couple pictures and a video of what happens. The constant hum/click sound in the video is not the VCR, it's the camera, I don't know why it does that. In THIS video you can see when I push that black thing in the tape will start moving but it still stops anyway. I guess I should also mention that it does rewind and fast-forward. Last edited by Hi Ho; 03-28-2006 at 06:27 PM.
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03-28-2006, 06:51 PM
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PRB is Projector/Recorder Belt
The modern company that owns PRB is: http://www.russellind.com/prbline/index.html
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03-29-2006, 02:08 PM
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I don't think there is much you can do with an old Tatung. Maybe Viagra?
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03-31-2006, 04:13 PM
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Come on, I can picture you all falling out of your computer chairs laughing!
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