Great detailed video. Thanks for the shoutout and your support.

Thank you for another very interesting video! Back in 2010 I found two DCC decks in the trash, a Marantz DD-82 and a Philips DCC 600. They worked mechanically, but neither one of them worked electronically. Most likely the same sort of bad SMD capacitors. Seeing this video, the repair indeed is complicated, but not as impossible as I thought back in 2010. I sold both recorders. Hopefully somebody was able to repair them and they still exist...

I think you have made the right decision not to repair the analogue playback, it is not worth the risk. As you only need digital playback, I would call that done! I really hate changing those nasty surface mount caps, the smell alone is foul enough. I also use through hole caps as replacements if there is room on the board.

"(Look at the last three letters of the link for this video!)" DCC LOL

Il fatto che non legge la cassetta standard,mi da molto fastidio,comunque,a meno che non si riesce a rimpiazzare la scheda figlia,pazienza,nel limite del possibile,hai fatto un buon lavoro

Well done on making it much much better :-D I was amazed at how dead those caps were, they looked fine, very deceptive. I needed to use my old realistic scanner to listen to the output of a 433 mhz car fob i was repairing for a mate. My scanner had died in storage :-( A capacitor near the audio stage had leaked all over the board and the tracks went black, some eatern away. Evil things capacitors ;-(

Hello, your work is excellent, but you did not check important parts, checking the variable resistors. There may be a malfunction or a loss of the connection, as well as the fixed resistors in the motherboard as well. The most important thing, the head may need to be modified. I am now working on modifying the board for the Dolby System and dancing vu meter regularly and I reached an excellent result in sound and purity as well as controlling the Dolby on the digital tapes. Sorry my language not very well but I hope you understand what I say

The problem with analog compact cassette lies in through holes contacts on the smaller board. If you repair next DCC900 or any first generation DCC recorder, first thing to do after capacitors removal is to check all the conductors especially through hole bridges as there often interruptions caused by the leaked electrolyte interacted with copper.

I have dcc 600, plays analog but no dcc audio, what is the problem? Read/write board or bad azimuth dcc heads? How to check this?

It's always the caps need replacing with DCCs isn't it? I guess they were made during the capacitor plague era. BTW I'm already subscribed to Dr DCC.

Nice repair. Question I am repairing my deck as well. Can you tell me where I can buy the pinch rollers or at least what the measures are? Is buying at aliexpress an idea? There are a lot of types available.

Hello ! Looking at the same dcc 900 and the seller say that no sound out from the player. What can be wrong.....easy to fix ? Can it play / record normal cassetts ?

Did u fix dcc 300 with no digital signal... Caps RW board or bad digital heads? Did u check errors rate?

I understand the decision to stop at some point and tolerate some problems you don't really care much about, but why do you think you might make things worse if you did?

hi just had a PRO-BETACAM SP UXW-100 it got a lot on it came with len's and a lot of free gear it's heavy cell pack last 150min the tape drive need work i watch all this video

that footswitch mod is G E N I U S

Dreaded surface mount electrolytics-if I had a pound for everyone I’ve changed over the years, I’d be very rich !

Hello video99.co.uk, I also have a DCC 900 on which the capacitors have to be changed. I contacted some radio and television technicians here in Germany, but nobody wanted to take care of the matter. Since I saw how you did it, I have the question whether you would also change all capacitors in my device. Play DCC still works, unfortunately the DCC recording works with a DCC 60 minutes, almost OK, with a DCC 90 minutes mostly not anymore. Analog only plays the left channel (although I wouldn't care about the analog thing, it would of course be nice if it worked). As asked above, would you change all of my capacitors? I can remove the PCB board and the other one (I'm a hobbyist) and then send them to you well packaged. Ask what would you charge for it? How can I contact you by email? So that I can send you an email, so that you then have my email address and can then answer me. I would be very happy if I finally find someone to fix it for me. Because I am a high-end fan and love these devices! One more question, I'm not entirely sure why the recording only works almost 100% with the DCC 60 min., It may be that the tapes are old and worn (oxidation and / or the magnetic layer on the carrier tape has become too thin )? Or does it have something to do with the tape guide (pressure rollers, main drive belt for the capstan)? It could also have something to do with the braking effect of the reel side, which keeps the tape taut during recording. Because if the tape on the head is too loosely guided, the head / tape contact could be too weak and, especially during recording, the tape head must have very good head-tape contact in order to be able to magnetize the tape right? I would also like to change the pressure roller and the skin drive belt, where can I get these spare parts and what do I have to unscrew for them (a video about this wouldn't be bad). I hope you can help me with changing the capacitors. I would do it myself, too, but very reluctantly. Because I no longer have such a steady hand and I would have to get myself a double soldering iron first, the Atlas ESR 60 would also be a good help. But these are all costs that I would rather invest in a professional capacitor change. Please let me know if you would do it, as I said, I can remove the boards and send them to you. This means that the entire device does not have to be sent first. By the way, I also have a KZfaq channel: kzfaq.info/love/9ZmYRdF5pEnaF8bd77qUTgvideos There you can also see me as a person (360 ° videos about bike tours). I hope my english is understandable as far as i made it with google translator. I can speak a little English, for a smal-talk it would be enough, but certainly not for such a differentiated thing. Many greetings from K.R. from Remscheid / Germany

Yes, I'm definitely sticking with DAT. Not problem free, but at least the big ugly laboratory grade machines are built to be worked on. Just yikes.