I've been helping my dad clean out the old trailer that I grew up in, now that someone has decided to fix it up and live in it. For years, it's been nothing more than a storage building with 27 years of old junk in there that we haven't laid eyes on in ages. Among many other things, I found what appears to have been our first VCR, bought for about $150 used back in the mid-80's. From the looks of it, I had bet that it was probably the first VCR ever made and that seems to be about right. I read that they cost $900 or so when brand new? Wow...
It's not exactly in the best of shape, but it seems to have some hope left. It'll fast-forward, and rewind, but it won't play. The tape starts to move but stops, and it eventually just clicks off. Referring back to another thread, someone had suggested that a similar problem was caused by the play idler. Not sure where that is. Anyways, not sure what I'm going to do with it or if I should attempt to repair it. Just thought I'd get some advice!