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Originally Posted by dishdude
No audio and video is weird, these machines weren't advanced enough to black out the screen and mute the audio if there was no video signal, so you should at least get audio and a garbled picture.
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Well I finally got the tuner working again but of course there's no audio, just video. And I've done some more checking into the capstan and pincher assembly, and I noticed a "track" worn into the pincher roller and also that the pincher roller was pretty hard so I tried using some rubber renue on it to see if it would help the roller grip better and it definitely softened up the rubber on the roller, but its still playing too fast, no amount of cleaning the heads or anything is fixing it. So I'm guessing that the heads might be bad...
Also when I was taking the tape cover off (the part you insert the tape in) I accidentally dropped a screw down into the VCR and I was trying to get the screw out and in the process screwed up the clock display (I accidentally forgot to unplug the unit when I went to retrieve the screw.) So what would of the screw hit that would of messed up the clock display? Also I think that the same incident that screwed up the clock display may have been what brought the tuner back to life minus the audio portion of it.