Early 1980s RCA SelectaVision VHS Player

[ZenithDude88]

Hello everyone the other day I was browsing around the local Goodwill and sure enough I saw on the shelf just begging me to buy it, and early 1980s vintage top-loader RCA SelectaVision VHS VCR Model VLT-260 that I ended up buying for about $5 and some change, anyways, I got it home and went to try it out and sure enough it tried to load and play a tape but didn't do anything which I attributed to bad belts because of how old the VCR was (its pushing 30+ years old already and the belts had to of either dry-rotted or turned to goo by now) and when I took the unit apart my fears had been confirmed all 6 belts this unit used had turned to goo over the years.

So I had to bust out the 70% Isopropyl Alcohol and Q-Tips and Cotton Swabs to clean off the old belts off the pulleys and thankfully I had some replacement belts laying around that I was able to use in the VCR (a couple of the belts I had to substitute rubber bands for because I didn't have the right belts for them like the Capstan Drive Pulley which used a large flat belt and one of the loading mechanism pulleys which I didn't have a belt the right size for but I did have a rubberband that was the right size for it when it was doubled over).

Anyways once I replaced the belts the VCR worked fine, but then the only issue I noticed about this VCR is that its front panel VFD display doesn't work anymore and I was wondering if there was any way to fix that easily or what would of caused it to fail, and also I noticed that it seems to be a fairly common issue with this particular model of RCA VCR because I've seen other VCRs just like this (the same exact model) that were listed for sale on fleabay that also had dead VFD displays in the front panel.

Any help and assistance would be welcome, as this is my very first RCA SelectaVision VCR I've ever owned and from what I've read on here the RCA SelecaVision line of Video equipment (like VCRs, Betamaxes, Video Disc Players, etc, have kind of a cult following on here.

Also, the reason why I don't have any pictures posted on here is because you can find several pictures of this particular model of VCR in GIS so that's why I'm not too concerned about posting any pictures of mine on here.