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1988 FIsher Studio-Standard Hi-Fi VCR loading issues
Hello everyone, the other day I was visiting my Aunt and Uncle's house to go through some of my great-grandfather's old tools, and my Uncle said they had an old Fisher Studio-Standard (Sanyo) Hi-Fi VCR that was having trouble loading tapes and asked me if I could repair it for them, and I said I would have a look at it for them (they are going to be moving to the Jacksonville, Florida area because my Uncle's job got moved down there as he works for one of the major prosthetic manufacturers that is located in Warsaw, Indiana which is where they currently live).
I got it home and looked it over and as I suspected the belt for the loading mechanism was dry-rotted (it was broken into pieces inside the VCR) and I looked through my old VCR Belt Stash and I unfortunately don't have a belt that's the correct size for this VCR's loading mechanism (its a really small belt probably about an inch in diameter or a little larger) and I was wondering if there's still anyone out there selling NOS VCR belts yet, I know there used to be a couple of places at one time, but that was about 10 years ago. Any Help would be appreciated. See Pictures below. BTW: The blue "belt" that is in the 4th picture is a rubber band I was using to try to see if it would work but it didn't because is wasn't stiff enough (and it was slightly too big in diameter than the original so it was slipping when it was trying to go into play mode.) Last edited by vortalexfan; 03-14-2022 at 11:14 PM. |
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This were I get my belts for my VCRs, cassette decks, and more. The seem to be of good quality. Here is the link https://www.elliottelectronicsupply....rive-belts.htm l hop this helps I bought belts from them to fix my 1984 sanyo VCR.
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[QUOTE=vortalexfan;3240312]OK, so I'm not quite sure how the belt sizing works on the site you linked to me, the belt's overall Diameter that I need is a little over an inch give or take a quarter inch because its not a very big belt, and as I said, I don't have the original belt to go by as the original belt had disintigrated years ago.[/QUOTE
If you don't have an original belt then you use an old trick I learned from VCR repair man. Take some dental floss and wrap it around both pullys. Then over lap it and then pull the slack out and then cut it. Then take the dental floss and lay it out in straight line on a flat surface and pull all the slack out of it. Then measure with a ruler then dived it by .4 and that should give you size of belt you need. Thats way i do and it's always worked, but it can be trick so good luck. |
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There are different widths belts and you can find that about by using a protractor or ruler. If you use a ruler convert your ressalt to decimal.
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OK, thanks! I'll give that a try.
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I use O-rings from the hardware store, they have a number of bins with faucet repair parts and kits along with several bins of hydraulics type O-rings to rummage through. Both of my 3/4 Sony decks are running hydraulic O-rings on the threading drive
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I've done the same thing before, I've also had to source fibre washers for antique fan repair from the hardware store before (oddly enough the only hardware store that carried them was a local family owned hardware store that has been around for over 100 years in a small town about 10 miles or so to the east of me called Middlebury, Indiana.)
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