RCA VMT-390 VCR

[harryhomer]

I have been away from repair too long. Wife's VCR, when set up to
record, records about 1 second and then stops. I cleaned the tape
path and pinch roller (it was squeeling), but it is still not working
and if I remember correctly there is something else that goes wrong to
cause this. Any suggestions?

 

[nipperchipper]

Its the belts that are bad, they have stretched out of shape. You should
replace all of them. I think there were at least 6 of them.


"harryhomer" <mfiedl@comcast.net> wrote in message
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I have been away from repair too long. Wife's VCR, when set up to
record, records about 1 second and then stops. I cleaned the tape
path and pinch roller (it was squeeling), but it is still not working
and if I remember correctly there is something else that goes wrong to
cause this. Any suggestions?

 

[harryhomer]

On Mar 13, 1:01 pm, "nipperchipper" <nipperchip...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Its the belts that are bad, they have stretched out of shape.  You should
replace all of them.  I think there were at least 6 of them.

"harryhomer" <mfi...@comcast.net> wrote in message

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I have been away from repair too long.  Wife's VCR, when set up to
record, records about 1 second and then stops.  I cleaned the tape
path and pinch roller (it was squeeling), but it is still not working
and if I remember correctly there is something else that goes wrong to
cause this.  Any suggestions?- Hide quoted text -

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Thank you; I bought a belt kit from the local electronics store and
installed them last night; VCR works great; they were really stretched
out of shape; all of them. Even the wife commented it rewinds better
now in addition to recording properly.