[tvcollector]

Too bad you weren't close to me.. The tape i was playing as it started was a tape that i have which i don't use while repairing VCRS, and has no bad parts, so i'm almost positive that the tape is not what started causing the problem, All i know is, I walked away from it for a few minutes and noticed the problem when i went back into the room. I think if i remember correctly the HI-FI at the time the problem accuring was still working, before i went into the machine and started adjusting things.. I find that these Panasonic machines are much harder to work on than the Sony Betamax VCRS. I've done aligning to many of the Betamax machines (The SL-5000 series and Zenith clones) without any alignment tape and manage to correct the same flickering V-hold and bouncing problems. I'm not good with the names of parts, but i know on the Canon I messed with the two guides that have the plastic rollers, that take the tape around each side of the drum, and the plastic wheel on the left, where the tape first goes through before the sensors video and audio heads. Stupid me decides to get the WD40 can out and spray the plastic wheely and ended up spraying too much which than it got on the tape and as it took it to the drum, it got caught up around the drum, and at that time i think is when i noticed the hi-fi stereo started to go out. Since then i cleaned the a/v heads and sensors with contact cleaner and lots of rubbing alcohol. I spend at least 15 hours on the damn thing now.


I notice the power supply on these are different from the other Panasonics as mentioned above, I see it has a huge transformer in it, and you don't hear the arching noise when you plug the VCR into the wall outlet like every Panasonic I've seen.