Daniele,

A shot in the dark that people may have forgotten about. Is the end
stop LAMP burned out? Many old machines have end stop sensor lamps and
will not function if the bulb is out. My long gone JVC HR-6700U did, as
did the HR-7300U after that.

Regards,
Tim Schwartz
Bristol Electronics

P.S. If you post further questions about this machine, you'll likely
get better answers if you include the model number.

Daniele - Skrauso wrote:

Hi,
I got (for free) an old JVC videorecorder. It still has direct mechanical
tape controls (play, ffwd, rew, ecc) without any servo-system. The motors
appear to be OK, ffwd e rew work fine but the play key dowesn't work. The
problem is that the key is locked, if you try to push it you cant get it
down. I opened the machine and I think it's possible that some lever isn't
free to move for some reason.

Another possibility is that one of the magnets that helps moving the levers
inside is out of order.

Is there anyone experienced with those old and wonderful videorecorders? I'm
going to cry if I had to trhow it away :\

Thanx
Daniele

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