Man make those videos as long as you want, keep up the good work and entertaining/informative vids!

Another one saved from the scrap heap! Excellent work as usual Dave!!!

Remember this chassis well. Thorn in the UK, who had retail and rental chains in the 80s and 90s, had always used JVC and Akai for their house-brand VCRs - these were good machines generally and gave long service in the rental trade over the years. But they were expensive so they started offering these under their own label around 1993-4 for customers after something cheaper. I think they just got them in as disposable units, but they proved to be surprisingly robust and easy to service as compared to the other cheap stuff on the market of the time, predominantly from Orion and Funai. Goldstar at the time still had a reputation for being crap, unlike Samsung which were already starting to persuade a lot of people that they were a match for the budget-oriented Japanese companies like Sanyo and Sharp. But these weren't bad. The picture as I recall was awful though on these, very soft (although not noisy on cheap tapes as a result), like watching a machine from the early '80s.

Wow a lot was wrong with it. So satisfying that you had everything you needed and now it's back in business.

Make the video as long as you want or need to, then everything is there. People can run at higher speed or skip some parts if they want. Videos where look I rebuilt the whole TV in 8 minutes aren't that useful.

That Goldstar vcr was a very forgiving and easy machine to work on, excellent. Great video 😊👍

Saludos ..12 vtios...soy tu seguidor ..desde ase años..te descubrí por los ..vhs..yo colecciono..y e aprendido mucho con tus videos..muy prácticos y instructivos..te va o casi todos guardado ...cuando tengo dudas busco ...como este de golstar yo tengo una ..HIFI...con ese problema del casett que no entraba limpie la llave de modo ...y no me di cuenta de la alineación de la corredera los tres bollitos tenían que coincidir y gracias a tu video .lo logré ahora soy feliz..jjjj🙆🙏💪🇨🇺🇦🇷

The premier was a great experience. Thanks for talking with us~

Dave I think many viewers appreciate in detail repairs as I appreciate it. Also keep in mind that those people who likes shorter videos often does not have a deeper understanding of the function of those electronics.thus the overall viewing experience is more superficial. The more you understand things the more questions will arise 😅. And then it's nice if your video covers it anyway. Like your video so keep up.

Basic but well made decks that were far superior to the horrid plastic ones that replaced them. With some new belts and a service, they can give many years of use. There are still plenty of buyers for them with large collections of tapes, and like laserdisc players you can't buy new ones these days.

Great job Dave

Brilliant work mate.

Another good video buddy.

And, yes, you are entertaining,very informative.

I have an LG phone and stereo system, lol. Great video!

Just had one of these Goldstars in last week, where would you find such a belt? I got by with boiling it for a minute or two and cleaning the pulleys real good.

Great Work Dave, and as you would say {Fubar }on the those who whine and complain because they have no patients, And I like to add - This is your Channel- YES YOU! not them -not the ones who whine and carry on because they have no patience on how to learn properly, The work procedure stays the same to of which -They who want the answers quick -NA -AH Aint going to happen, THEY must learn the whole procedure or as a teacher would say in class GET OUT. You are a wonderful teacher So! Please!!! don't let the so called cheaters push and complain deter you from making a proper length video - As I say { you dont learn anything by cutting corners} OK We who want too learn -WANT to LEARN AND Fubar on the dimwits who want to act dumb and spoil it for the rest of us who like this kind of instruction. Best wishes My Friend - You Are the BEST!!!

Nice fixes. Lucky seems to be popular brand name, one of my hobbies is scale modelcars, and few years back, a company called Yatming changed their name to Lucky Diecast :D

Excelente video saludos luis

Great job. That missing pinch roller 😯

thank you for the background of company name mixes info.. always wanted to know what happen to goldstar,

Two of the phillips machines i got from my dad the pinch rollers had dropped off i never bothered to repair them i just got a few others instead .

Dave, how did you know the replacement pinch would be the correct outer diameter, are they all the same? Great video and nice fix.

Not too bad a machine, most of the final designs seem ok. The mode switch was no supprise, but the missing pinch roller was rude lol. Odd how the mode switch fails more often on later machines. I have never skipped bits of your videos, im here to watch a pro at work.

I had that same goldstar vcr since feb 7 2015 but my dad gave it to someone who had a kid who watches kids tapes whose vcr broke and needed another one last September.

I think that VCR deserves to go digital video recorder conversion if this does not look too complex.

I like long videos, but when they are filled with ads I tend to not watch the whole video. Like to watch videos for information, but hate the ads and I'm not paying extra to watch videos without ads.

First, good job and yes my brightness is full on. So, my question is where did the original pinch roller go? It seems like it should have seen locked into place from the start. If it was missing for a while, what happened to it?

I'm no dim bulb. Thumbs up from me.

this is new model with switching power supply , the real one was with transformer 21 volt and 15 v more robust and heavy , i have Goldstar and still work , never open

Hey dave i have same model i did clean mode switch and rechecking alignment and also follow this whole video but dont know whats wrong tape wont accept some times its accepted tape when i force but hard to eject very poor ans slowly what shoud i do my machine is barnd new 😢

i have a magnavox vcr from 1995 that uses a remote that looks like that maybe it's really a goldstar. i also have a 19" goldstar tv from 1986 that i got off marketplace for free

The DeoxIT-bottle costs 75 USD on Amazon in Sweden. I guess I will stay with WD-40 deoxit... ;-)

Just starting the video now at exactly 1:23 in looking down into the unit. My overwhelming thought: It should be peoples' offense to put all those assorted parts together in such a way that it plays back tape, but does so only in mono. I get that parts cost money, but why not build a plane with one wing? heh heh

Dove trovo la pagina patreon? Grazie

I remember Gold Star in the 1980's & they made a lot of garbage. Patreon is blocked in our country & not paying for a VPN as it slows speeds & buffers & free VPN's been abused & not found one that works good.

Pateron member one should not have to be a Pateron on member when your video's should be on KZfaq

Here's another tip for you Dave, in that if you are getting tired of youtubes pushy attitude then, I just found out another platform called odysee.com where you might be able to sync all your vids over to there and get or at least have a back up platform and have less stress of copy strikes and all the rederic that you tube is starting to create trouble for great creators like yourself to deal with, give it a check out and see if that might be better for you.. We cant lose you to youtube...I happen to find this out from another gentleman who has a channel called Distro Tube and he was saying that quite a few content creators are getting tired of the attitude of this platform and have merged over to there and there is less stress and problems..As well as there are easier ways to get paid for your teachable time you so gallantly share ... Best wishes my friend you're the best.