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Old 05-07-2022, 07:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Blast View Post
Oh, sorry, I thought you were in possession of it.

Yes, there may well be some very similar crosses but I never really knew my Panasonic model numbers well and would mostly rely on FCC ID#'s.

Idler tires shouldn't be too big of a problem. However, there WERE power supply capacitors that were going bad even 20 years ago so I would factor in replacing many/most/all in the secondary of the power supply when you get it.

Other than that and a few belts (and loose RF input jacks?) they were pretty solid and reliable machines.
Ok, that's good to hear, the reason why I mentioned the idler tires was because I've worked on/owned a few Panasonic Linear Stereo VCRs from the same time period that did have idler tire issues (the VCRs played, rewound and fast forwarded, but when they played they had a tendency to eat tapes and when they rewind they would stall half-way through a 2+ hour tape, and fast forward was virtually non-existent speed wise.
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