"Zac" wrote in message
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Mark D. Zacharias wrote:
It's the video head. Sorry. Common symptom of a failing head.

Reverse-search will also be bad.

Mark Z.

OK, I double checked Reverse-search and it looks good.
After some cleaning, it looks like Pause mode gives snow on the top
half of the picture.
Slow motion mode gives snow between one third to one half of the
picture.
So it seems that there is more snow after some cleaning.

Oh, the machine still takes 15 seconds for the audio to clear up on a
SLP tape. It takes 5 seconds to clear on a SP tape. This happens
anytime the machine is rewound.

Thanks in advance for more suggestions.

Zac


I still think video head.

mz