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Greetings to every one here at videokarma.org! I'm not very active on here, but I occasionally read & post on here.



I'm having a mechanical problem with a vintage VHS format VCR that I own.



I have an old RCA Selectavision VHS VCR, model VKT385, from the mid-1980s, which is just a typical monaural, two-head, front-loading VHS VCR with a 10 button wireless remote control. When I brought it home & hooked it up to my TV, the problem it had was that when I pushed the power button, loaded a videocassette, and pushed the play button, the mechanism attempted to play the tape, but then stopped after a few seconds, but oddly enough, it was able to rewind & fast-forward tapes, but a few times, it didn't wind the magnetic tape all the way back in to the cassette.



Three months ago, I took the VCR to an electronics repair shop, and the technician repaired it & got it working again. I'm watching a movie on it right now, and it's working very well. It has excellent video, audio, and recording quality, but sometimes, it still won't transport the magnetic tape back in to the cassette all the way, which mangles the tape when I eject the tape.



The repair technician told me that the VCR needed a lot of new internal parts installed, for example, belts, tyres, and idlers, and that it was difficult to work on, with a very complicated mechanical mechanism. He also told me that it's not a true RCA VCR, made in Japan, and RCA never manufactured their own VCRs, and also, that some of its parts are difficult to find today.



Does any one know what the problem could be, or if it's repairable? I know that video tapes are no-longer popular, but I'm still a loyal user of VHS & Betamax. I did a search for this particular VCR online, but I can't find very much information about; I found a few pictures of it, but information is scare.



On a side note, speaking of RCA Selectavision, I am also a collector & user of capacitance electronic discs, which also uses the same trade name.



Thanks for the help!