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Originally Posted by Ed in Tx
If the head drum was running at the wrong speed you'd not see a picture in the noise, you'd be seeing horizontal lines across the screen. Looks more to me like either loose tape guide rollers or no back tension on the tape.
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I actually had to partially disassemble the mechanism around the tape drum as one of the guides had come misaligned from its track, but that picture I took was after doing that and reassembling the VCR, and the guides are definitely moving in sync now and aren't loose.
What exactly is "back tension"? I do notice the friction band for the left reel is in very poor shape, but would that affect playback?