Another place to look for remotes is your local charity shop. Some of the ones around here get donated a machine with remote. The machine is then tossed, either due to not functioning or the policy of the store not to sell electrical items. The remote then gets put in a basket on the shelf, usually with a price tag less than $2. Got a few this way.
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Tony

Here's what you're looking for. A picture of mine. Says right on it what models goes with. Some other Mitsubishi remotes of that and prior generations will work some of the functions.

http://www.videokarma.org/attachment...1&d=1332032104

There are several on e-bay now - no affiliation.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MITSUBISHI-V...item43adac17a2

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Mit...item5d2f5433e0

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mitsubishi-H...item231ac7deb4

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MITSUBISHI-H...item256db636e1

thanks imgonna see if i can get one of those off of ebay...

Yep seems to be a few around. Or like Tony75 mentioned, you might go by that Good Will store where you got it, and ask if they have any extra remotes, maybe you'll get lucky.

I got a $2 S-VHS deck a few months ago. I have exactly one S-VHS tape with a recording of something I provided A/V services on about 9 years ago. The remote was taped to the top of it, so I bought it.

The machine is barely used, and so cheap inside. JVC made it.

I just picked up a JVC S3800 S-VHS. The sticker on top claims the it will record on S-VHS mode by using EHG VHS tapes.

That would be the S-VHS-ET mode JVC came up with to offset the cost and lesser availablilty of true S-VHS tapes. S-VHS-ET is somewhat de-tuned by pulling back the full video peaking of S-VHS and probably some other technical aspects I don't remember, and retaining the higher carrier frequency of the FM luminance video signal that gets recorded on the tape.

It's a big pet peeve of mine how most people seem to lose the remotes to every piece of electronic equipment they have. When I look at the listings for TV's and DVD players on Craig's List, I'd estimate that at least 75% of them have lost the remotes. Of course, the seller sluffs it off, saying you can easily use the cable company's or a universal remote, but a lot of manufacturers had dedicated functions on their remotes that are not supported by a universal remote.

Even when people do tape the remotes to things they donate to thrifts they don't always stay on......Case in point I bought a Laserdisc player at a thrift. The thing was mint and even had a sales or inventory tag from it's dealer taped on the side, and it also had remnants of tape where the remote had been taped on.....Several days later I returned and they had put out the remote, and were nice enough not to charge me for it when I found it.