[liammc00]

I was watching a tape and all of sudden it stop playing. After that you could hit play and it would play but somtimes the unit just stops after a few seconds. I now if the take up hub stops turning it's supposed to stop playing the tape. This unit uses a direct drive motor and one idler tire which I don't think is bad as the tape counter is acting goofy. Sometimes it will play for a while without giving any trouble but when it does act up. the tape counter intermediately begans moving on its own with no tape in the machine or with tape inserted with VCR in stoped mode. When playing it will jumps all over the place as if the sensor was getting stuck on. n
Now main question is what could possibly make the tape counter misbehave. As other then that the VCR works great and it's one of those side loaders so really would like to get it fixed again. Unit I get it fixed I lucky have a working broksonic VCR from 1992 that works but could use a new loading belt.