Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!bbn!aoa!carl
From: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: VCR Problem
Message-ID: <67@aoa.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 88 18:25:19 GMT
References: <99@richp1.UUCP>
Reply-To: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft)
Organization: Adaptive Optics Assoc., Cambridge, Mass. USA
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In article <99@richp1.UUCP> robert@richp1.UUCP (Robert Miller) writes:
>I seem to be having a problem with my Sears VCR (2 heads).
>When I record or play back a tape, The unit makes a rather loud
>sound like a cricket.  Certainly this can't be normal?  Are these
>VCR's belt driven and the belt is slipping?  I have no audio or
>video distortion.  Any ideas??   Thanks in advance!
Happened to me once. First, I ran one of those head cleaner tapes, the
kind that runs a fuzzy tape w/ fluid thru the machine. It took a lot of
dirt off but didnt help. Then I fast-forwarded the tape (which was a
rental) and rewound it. It ran ok in play mode after that. I assume this
was the same problem I used to see on old reel-to-reel audio tapes, 
namely that the tape was wound very high or low on the reels by the
previous user. the FF-REW cycle places the tape in line w/ the guides&
heads on my machine.


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