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Originally Posted by 1ajs
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Yes, much, MUCH better
Looks like humidity played tricks on the contacts and operating the old things is progressivelycleaning them up and remobilizing old hardened lubricants. You certainly can help with Deoxit and the proper asortment of q-tips, non-plush wipes and so on. The old belts look good, which is a piece of luck. The motor doesn't look so good though, but as long as it works and doesn't make strange noises I'd leave it alone.
As regards the problems with the monitor, the signal looks good except for those oblique bars appearing from time to time, which might be caused by a parasitic video signal (make sure nothing else is hooked to your monitor and VTR while playing the tape). The sync is not very stable but appear healthy. The vertical sync losses might be caused by the monitor (some are very sensitive to the fairly poor sync level and stability which are normal for an EIAJ deck), adjusting the vertical stability adjustment could help too. But they don't seem to caused by drop outs, as is usual in this format. Anyway the tape looks very clean, especially for an EIAJ tape.
05-15-2014, 07:12 PM
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