Hello there all!
I recently acquired an RCA VMT-395 VCR, it was working quite well for about 3 days until it stopped playing, it would fast forward and rewind but when I press play it would pull up the tape but the tape doesn't move so after a few seconds it shuts down (I guess because it's detecting a jam). So I found that the belts were pretty worn out and slipping on the loading mechanism, so I did some digging and found a belt kit on ebay, after cleaning the pulleys and installing the belts it fast forwards and reminds a lot better and the belts no longer slip on the loading mechanism. However, it still doesn't play, when I looked it appears that the loading mechanism is not pulling the tape up all the way, when I spin it by hand just a little bit the tape begins to play. I will post a link to a video later on. Thank you for any help! (PS it doesn't have an idler tire, it uses gears and all of them are in good shape with no cracking, which goes for the rest of the plastic gears inside the deck)
I recently acquired an RCA VMT-395 VCR, it was working quite well for about 3 days until it stopped playing, it would fast forward and rewind but when I press play it would pull up the tape but the tape doesn't move so after a few seconds it shuts down (I guess because it's detecting a jam). So I found that the belts were pretty worn out and slipping on the loading mechanism, so I did some digging and found a belt kit on ebay, after cleaning the pulleys and installing the belts it fast forwards and reminds a lot better and the belts no longer slip on the loading mechanism. However, it still doesn't play, when I looked it appears that the loading mechanism is not pulling the tape up all the way, when I spin it by hand just a little bit the tape begins to play. I will post a link to a video later on. Thank you for any help! (PS it doesn't have an idler tire, it uses gears and all of them are in good shape with no cracking, which goes for the rest of the plastic gears inside the deck)
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