I bought a brand new old stock today and it didn't work with the exact same symptoms as in this video. I fixed it based on your video and now it works perfectly. Thank you very much!

I have a very similar model to this and it was having the same issues. I was about to send it to the landfill, but watched your video first. I gave the stuck drum a few spins and now it's working again without even having to take it apart and lubricate it. Thanks.

Wow. I had this same deck with the same issue. Watched your video for 30 seconds, gave the drum a spin after removing the top, and voila, works like new. I guess letting it sit in the attic for years and years wasn't the best idea, but after I loosened the drum it's perfect. Thanks for the video!!! If I can remember to exercise it once or twice a year, I should be good to go for many years to come!

Thank you so much for this video, I have a toshiba I just bought and was having this issue, after watching this video, I did the same thing to mine and it works great now, thank you 🙏🏼

Thank you for showing us up the rotary transformer.

I picked up a free Toshiba DVD VHS combo (SD-V269-K-TU) and it had the same issue after I repaired the loading mechanism. The drumhead was not turning freely, so I took it apart, added some oil and it fixed it! Thank you.

I came here because I had the exact same model doing the exact same thing, except that the drum was turning freely. I assumed the mode switch as well but didn't really want to tear it down that far unless I really had to. When I saw your video, I thought to myself, what else could cause the drum to rotate too slowly and shut down? Well, if it's dirty, I have seen it happen. Cleaned the tape path, which didn't look too bad, but the drum revealed it was dirtier than it initially appeared based on the color of the swabs after wiping. If it re-occurs I'll lube the bearings and clean mode switch, but for now, one easy repair. Cheers!

Great video. Got this thing for free but tapes would jus get spat out. fixed it following your instructions!

I was so getting ready to toss this or find someone to fix it but your video pointed out the same issue i was having and was such an easy teardown and fix that even a noobie such as myself was able to fix it and mine is working now! Picked it up from GoodWill for $6.99!

Had that with bearings that have been sitting for a long time, where the grease inside slumps all down to the one side of the bearing, and all the lighter components evaporate out, leaving only the heavier oils and the soap behind. A drop of light oil, and mix them up by turning a few times, and fixed just like yours. Shows the design of the motor was just enough to handle the expected loss in the bearings and the tape wrap. Not much extra torque available, so if it is not up to speed during load the tape will stick to the head instead of having the hydrodynamic air bearing that only allows the heads to touch it.

As soon as you said you thought it was going to be the switch and it wasn't I went for the head. Only as I had a Video recorder do the same, it also freed off after a spot of oil. I took the head off and I laughed when the head was difficult to get off, I had the same problem, but it wouldn't go back on! It took me almost three hours to get it on again, no idea what the problem was, but it just would not go on. Eventually, it suddenly dropped into place! I still am none the wiser why it was so difficult. It was a Ferguson top loader, a right horrible thing to work on, built like a tank and just as hard to work on. I can't remember who built it, it was not Thorn, it was Japanese inside. VHS and as heavy as a bag of cement with a wired remote. Anyway, I got it going again, to my surprise it worked better than it had before. I bought it second hand and it had to go back to get it adjusted, there was a gap of an inch from the bottom of the screen just after I took it home. It almost put me off doing anything with VCRs, I don't anymore, I just do not have the room or the inclination. I have a portable DVD player to fix, but Man Shed to full of crap to get bench space. It is the charging circuit that went, an 8 legged chip, but it also routs the power through it, so it is dead. I don't know what chip it is as it blew three legs off and the ID. It is a Sanyo if I remember, but it got put aside for now and might get forgotten about as she bought another one, but I was brought up where you just had to fix things or do without. However, something it is just not worth it. Anyway, I digress. Nice video, one of the few I guessed at and got right.

Cool to see inside of the drum.

Why, I never...! You are the best.

Thank you so much! I have the exact same machine with the exact same issue.

Thank you, very helpful, will try

Very helpful video.

Drum rotor bearings need lubrication possibly after about 1000 hours of record/playback. I used to repair a lot of vcrs on their own back in the day,,,that had mechanism and picture troubles due to dirty heads/pinch roller,,,missing drive belts,,,etc. Found a few machines with noisy rotary video heads,,,had worked out the magnet alignment markings in disassembly,,,,used a bit of light machine oil to lubricate bearings,,,and the drum rotor sound was a lot quieter in record/playback.

Thank you it worked!

thank you! it work for me!!

I like how that VHS tape has a Betamax-size label on it. Nice work as always. :)

Good to know. I have several of these machines I got from a friend. The VHS components are in mint shape as he never used them. The DVD recorders suffer the same problem...discs don't record. Traced back to a dirty laser lense. Take drive apart to get to the lense and clean with alcohol. Put back together and everything works fine again. Smoking is a bane to video equipment. Only good thing is my bud no longer records using these and other recorders, so he donated them to me. I can use them to transfer tapes. One nice thing is the HDMI out which also works with VHS tapes...

Unusual to see the lube go a bit custard, never seen that before.

I have a question. I have this exact same model except it has different outside colors. Certain VHS tapes I play in it have this gray fuzz at the top, about 20% of the screen. Everything that is supposed to be where the gray is was curved (Literally, the movie was curled) like twisted. On the left side of the top, I see this black diagnal line Covering like a photo frame of the gray. EXAMPLE: If there was a flower on screen, it would show the flower as normal, but where the Gray is, the pedals would completely stretch out. Is this a VCR or VHS problem?, because like I said, this only happens with abous 25% of my VHS tapes.

great vid. My Toshiba D-VR7KC was left unused for several years. then the VHS tape would not engage and just ejected and powered down. i saw your solution and took the head off and made it spin freely. nice job. tape goes in and wraps on head ---- but video is outof wack.. scrolls through fuzzy grey and partial images. audio is ok. what have I disturbed in there.? like many others--- I bought this to make DVD s of old VHS tapes but never got around to that--YET

I really wish you were here in the States. I have two Panasonic vhs/dvd/hdd's that I would love for you to work on. They both have that U99 error issue.

I have a funai td5b-n8481zb that kept ejecting and shutting down , after opening it I could see all the grease has dried out but after moving everything by hand it seems to be lubricated now and works fine. Thanks

Is the loading switch the same piece that would control the forward, rewind and play buttons?

Gloves should be worn to prevent skin oil from contacting the heads.

My Hitachi VCR is very old. It plays original movie tapes just fine. But when I play my blank ( recorded on ) tapes , it plays for a few seconds , then powers off. I wonder what the difference is. The owners manual says to have the heads cleaned by a trained service technician. ( also says, don't try to clean them yourself ) I think I should give it a try though.

Its a DVR620 not 630

What kind of oil should I use?

At least you let me know the next video is about the same machine, I will skip the next video as I'm not bothered about seeing another mode switch cleaned and taking the machine apart again.. if it was a different vcr then I would of watched lol. But you do good videos though. I been subscribed for years

i know most of this stuff is paid repairs but would you ever consider RGB modding a consumer CRT? people have done it on YT but it would be nice to see the master at work.

I have a Toshiba SD-v398 VCR that's having the same problem. What kind of oil do you use?

What oil did you use

Great video! I've got a situation where my drum spins freely right away. However it will start playing and actually show an image for 5 seconds and the it stops on its own and releases the tape...then powers down. Upon start up it ejects the tape....what could this be? Thank you for any info you might have!

Well this is what my one does, so I'll try to fix it before chucking it in the trash, what type of oil do you use? Motor? Vegetable?

HI!Are you able help with Samsung Combo Vhs section looks like dead doesn't even get in tape?

"kalifornian koast" that made me laugh

Hi, and thanks for sharing this great video. Can you please let us know the size of that little Allen key you use at 5:07 ? Thanks in advance, Luis.

My DVR610 cycles through to the VCR then immediately shuts off. Opened it up and cleaned the head and the mode switch. Head spins freely. Display indicates that there is a tape in the deck even though there isn't. What am I missing here?

Any idea why mine is fastforwarding then ejecting the tape. It was loading the film then ejecting after 20 seconds but i cleaned the light bare and now it just auto fastforwards then ejects! :(

Hi, my video tape is stuck in here. How would I get it out? I’ve tried eject a lot and nothing happens just makes a noise and then shuts down

I have a toshiba dvd recorder, dr430ku. when I turn on the power to the dvd recorder, it doesn't load and then shuts the power off. It takes 3-10 times to get the power on the recorder to stay on to load the dvd. Once I get the dvd to load, I can record. My timer recordings are not working because the power won't stay on when I am not there to keep,turning the power on until it stays on. Any suggestions on how to fix it?

Sir i have a national nv 7500 The vcr have a pefomence of revind and forward But when we press play button the vhs tape rolls one time and stop Can you say a solution for this play issue

Any tips for a similar issue on a DVR7? On mine the tape loads, plays for a count of 7 or 8 and then the whole unit shuts down. Power up with the tape still in and it ejects. Head spins, cleaned the mode switch. Cleaned and belts are good. Machine hardly used. All worked fine before. Went to use the other day and ... So similar symptoms as this one. But obviously another issue.

Wanted to ask, are there any dangers if the fingers are exposed to the isopropyl like what you did but on a regular basis?

I have a weird issue i need help with, my dvd/vcr combo when watching dvd will change over to vcr by itself and when i change it back to dvd it switches back to vcr, does it with and without batteries in the remote so i know thats not the problem

Dvd picture quality is so much better,,,clean picture.

Hi. Would you be able to fix my vcr/dvd player? I bought it from a thrift store 1 year ago almost. When i first purchased it, it worked great. An' about the 5th or 6th time i used it, it ejected the movie. (I later noticed since i don't use it often) i came to i find out my 1 year old put a plastic spoon in there as well as a usb drive an' hot wheel car so when i put a movie in just recently i was watching a movie an' it stopped playing so i pushed play, 1 minute later it stopped again. Pushed play again did it again just only seconds after. Now i really dunno what's wrong with it an' i just purchased some vhs from the library an' i would really like to watch them but i want to fix the issue for a cheaper price than buying a new one or even used one at that. Also the dvd slot doesn't open. I have to use tape to open it an' pry it open with a flat screw driver to open it. Please help!! I want to relive my childhood with this vcr😭

This is extremely common on the funai made machines. The VCR side is garbage.

I have the same model with a very similar issue. Seemingly the reel does not move. The drum head spins very freely, no lag or sticking. I took the case off to watch, when i insert a tape the reel goes around the head and then the reel itself doesn’t move while the drum spins with no problem at all. After about 10 seconds the reel will go back into the cassette and the unit will shut off. When i turn the power back on the tape will eject. When hooked up to a screen a single frame with a lot of static will appear, FF and Rewind do not work. If its not the drum, what else could it be?

Personally I wouldn't bother fixing anything with a modern Funai mechanism, but I guess its better than sending them to the landfill.

My toshiba dvr4 combo drum keeps lifting the film off of itself and one of the rotors causing it to slip of the rotor and shutting off the playback all together. Why would the drum push off film like that? It’s a clean and lubed drum.

Had the same issue, tore it down and lubed it up and the thing moves so easily now. Still same issue though. Weird issue, put in the VHS tape, it opens up and adds the ribbon to the cylinder, it starts to spin, then stops, puts the ribbon back into the VHS tape, then tries again, cylinder starts to spin up, then stops again and the console powers off. I power it back on and it just ejects the tape. Oh well. Was going to sell it for parts, but doesnt seem to be worth it. Dumpster time,.

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hi, my VCR has the same problem, but the drum does spin, but the VCR shuts down😒

I can’t believe this model originally sold for $300 and it was pretty cheap. They probably made these for 50 bucks and sold them off and made a $200 profit off of each one nowadays you can’t even touch this model for under $100 I wonder why that is Because everyone was overcharged everyone overpaid.

A Funai mechanism??? I didn't think Toshiba would stoop that low.

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Bad cap 4700uf and dirty sensor and bad switch mode they are the machine funia and magnavox