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Originally Posted by Dave A
Playing the tape on an audio deck is apples to oranges. Nothing will play on an audio deck. I forget the position of the audio track on these but it would be slim if it was a longitudinal track aside from the slant-track (helical) video and be almost invisible to a reel-to-reel player.
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Hmmm, there seems to be a misunderstanding here. We have never discussed playing the VT110 tape on an audio recorder. What has been discussed is using an audio recorder for its reel motors. OTOH I did play a VT-110 tape on a Revox once, as a last resort to slavage the audio track of a tape that had been recorded by mistake with the tape running on the wrong side of the capstan and as a result the speed was way off and unstable too. With a 2-track player it is possible to play the sound on track 2 and the CTL on track 1 - very convenient to recover the speed information. The video signal is too high in frequency for an audio player to read it, so it's just not on the signal. On a stereo 4-track deck the sound is on track 4, so it won't be playable. You can still read CTL on track on track 1, or you can flip the tape and play the audio in reverse on track 1.
I agree that the rolling image problem is probably due to the missing take-up torque (dead belt and/or roller is an obvious explanation). Placing the take-up reel on an external recorder in play mode, just to give torque, should improve things a lot.
Yes, definitely dead rubber on those rollers, by the sight of your last photo. You need to have them remade, or salvage some from another deck, if you want that transport to work again. It was to be expected.