Absolutely surreal that these things were being made as recently as 2015 and 2016.

Props to you for having the patience to work on these hunks of junk. They are not designed with reparability in mind, thats for sure.

so helpful. I'm going to take astab at trying to fix my Funai combo

I got my broken Emerson vcr/ DVD recorder combo in the mail yesterday, and the vcr part was messing up, and eating my tapes, then I got one of my tapes stuck in the vcr, so I replaced the belt with a new one, and now the vcr works! The DVD recorder side does not work at all, even though I cleaned the lens, and other components on that side!

That was quite a challenge! At the 19:50 mark you can definitely see something on the end of the q-tip, possibly a tiny little piece of a bad cassette that shed into the mechanism. Enough to block the optics, perhaps? I've also seen similar issues when a strong light source is falling onto the deck. It upsets the optics and the deck goes into shut down. With some machines you had to pretty much put the top cover back on to get them to behave! It can lead to much head-scratching for the uninitiated!

Great video, thank you.

amazing video

Suscon even sounds suspect...lol. That position switch on this Funai looks great, probably their name brand is built better than the rebadged others they make...lol.

Great video. Im working on one at the moment which has no power. Cant figure what it is but its dead. I will figure it out. :). Hopefully. Love the videos.

nice job, i have one of these, thanks for the insight, my only gripe on these is the clock display. i wish there was a way i could disable or turn off the timer record function to disable the clock display.

I find it funny and sad when you comment that viewers lose interest if a repair video is too long. Those without the interest to learn these technics just don't care to learn them at all.

Man what I wouldn't give for some help on this TV I'm working on, main board powering up but no display, inverter/backlights working, previous main showed image when I put pressure on the main ic, 12v to tcon is present, no scope to check ldvs lines but there's voltages on them, baffled

Nice, I have a magnavox zv427mg9 that the head drum doesn’t attempt to spin, It is not the mode switch because it loads the tape properly!

I thought to myself, okay he has it dissembled and the drive belt is right in his face. Will he clean it with the magic joy juice? And you didn't touch any of the belts as a normal preventative cleaning procedure, but you changed the cap out which tested fine. That threw me. Why not, it was right there? Good catch on the bent frame. I was looking at the wear lane and noticed that as well.

I have watched a few of your videos on these models i have the magnavox version and my cylinder spins super slow and it shuts off after a few seconds of it trying to read the tape any idea what could cause this

Hi, I have been having a similar problem with my Funai model where it can't take a tape. Is there anyway I can send my model out for you to look at?

so was 2015 the last year for DVD recorders ?... according to every retailer I have been to , they are outlawed by the courts due to copyright laws and new ones are not available...I guess my question would be why DVD recorders banned but not VHS recorders?

Have the same exact unit that is having issues playing tapes without distortion and it just started recently after a loud clicking noise when hitting the dubbing button. Would love to send it to you.

Why need a fan in 2015? hehe!

Sus cap

I'm not sure why you call this brush a "tooth brush"? I certainly don't brush my teeth with a stainless steel brush... 😅