On Sunday, April 15, 2012 11:57:06 PM UTC-4, wrote:

The few times I've purchased Nye products was through TAI. You can
find this through the Nye website under "contact" small volume
orders

http://www.lubekits.com/

Select Nye products on the right and on the next screen top center
"Nye Oil II"

BTW I'm just now finishing up a 2 oz bottle first opened in 1997.
Also, the Sony field service techs in LA were getting Nye Oil II from
me because they know the Sony oil isn't that good and this stuff is
first rate. I find a medical syringe like for insulin shots works
great for very tiny drops which is usually all that's needed. I run
alcohol through the syringe to clean it of medicine.

G²

Perfect, thank you! It's a shame I didn't see them on the search engines I tried, because they offer great prices for something so hard to find. (Amazon for instance only sells a couple Nye oils through third party vendors, and the prices are through the roof.) I'll definitely pick up a bottle...I tend to think something else is probably causing my jamming problem, but my gut tells me this oil may at least help with the supply spindle problem that started the whole mess!

Meanwhile, I want to take the opportunity to ask the question that's haunting me again: Do you or anyone else know how the back tension arm is supposed to retract on this VCR model or in general? Is it supposed to sit passively and be pushed to the front by the left shuttle, or is power supposed to be applied to move it out of the way first before the shuttle hits it? It's killing me not knowing how this VCR is SUPPOSED to work...