GoVideo DVR 4000 (Dual Deck). Vcr part of it, not the dvd part. It
Rewinds & FF's okay. DVD part works okay.

On play the picture gets noisy for about 3 seconds every 5 seconds.
That seems about one revolution of the cassette spindle. For those
first 5 seconds the picture is alright. Tracking doesn't change
anything.

Is this a back tension adjustment sort of thing? Any other ideas?

Saraah:
FIRST.... clean the VCR heads and tape path including guides and rollers
with special attention paid to the AC head, capstan and pinch roller.
Try a different or a new tape..... the tape is possibly edge damaged which
would cause problems for the VCR reading the control track signal.
If this happens with ALL tapes, then look for a worn pinch roller. worn
capstan bearing or bent loading arm that could cause the tape to ride up or
down on the A/C head while playing.
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"Sarah" wrote in message
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GoVideo DVR 4000 (Dual Deck). Vcr part of it, not the dvd part. It
Rewinds & FF's okay. DVD part works okay.

On play the picture gets noisy for about 3 seconds every 5 seconds.
That seems about one revolution of the cassette spindle. For those
first 5 seconds the picture is alright. Tracking doesn't change
anything.

Is this a back tension adjustment sort of thing? Any other ideas?

How many hours on the VCR (play and record) roughly?

On 25 Mar 2005 13:37:14 -0800, "Mr. Land"
wrote:

How many hours on the VCR (play and record) roughly?

AH, I don't know how many hours it has, someone gave it to our thrift
shop so I thought I would look at it, date of manf is 2001. Its nne
of those things where people buy a new one & put the old one in the
new box & give it to us, making us think its the new one in the box.


Tried lots of films on it, cleaned heads, same thing happens. It is
consistent tho.

(Sarah) writes:

On 25 Mar 2005 13:37:14 -0800, "Mr. Land"
wrote:

How many hours on the VCR (play and record) roughly?

AH, I don't know how many hours it has, someone gave it to our thrift
shop so I thought I would look at it, date of manf is 2001. Its nne
of those things where people buy a new one & put the old one in the
new box & give it to us, making us think its the new one in the box.

Tried lots of films on it, cleaned heads, same thing happens. It is
consistent tho.

Check tape path alignment.

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"Sarah" wrote in message
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GoVideo DVR 4000 (Dual Deck). Vcr part of it, not the dvd part. It
Rewinds & FF's okay. DVD part works okay.

On play the picture gets noisy for about 3 seconds every 5 seconds.
That seems about one revolution of the cassette spindle. For those
first 5 seconds the picture is alright. Tracking doesn't change
anything.

Is this a back tension adjustment sort of thing? Any other ideas?

On 25 Mar 2005 18:55:18 -0500, Sam Goldwasser
wrote:

Check tape path alignment.

I read your faq page, Ive been reading it for like ten years. I didn't
specificially notice this one there, but you did mention a back
tension adjustment might cause intermittent noise.

Sarah wrote:
snipped:
Tried lots of films on it, cleaned heads, same thing happens. It is
consistent tho.


Sarah:
Video Tape, NOT films.
Have you extra-vigorously cleaned the A/C head?
Have you checked the tape(s) for edge damage?
Have you tried recording and playing back on a NEW tape.
Have you looked at how the tape runs past the A/C head while playing?
i.e. does it ride up or down on the head?
Have your read the 03-25-2005 reply posting by Sofie? copied below
for your convenience:

"FIRST.... clean the VCR heads and tape path including guides and
rollers
with special attention paid to the AC head, capstan and pinch roller.
Try a different or a new tape..... the tape is possibly edge damaged
which
would cause problems for the VCR reading the control track signal.
If this happens with ALL tapes, then look for a worn pinch roller. worn

capstan bearing or bent loading arm that could cause the tape to ride
up or
down on the A/C head while playing."

When you find something at thrift store going for much less than retail
you can almost be assured that it is not new and more than likely the
previous owner had some kind of problems with it... but the likely
fault for the symptoms you posted are probably not hard to fix.... and
by the way the problem is most likely NOT a back-tension problem.
Check the things mentioned above and you can probably get this machine
working fairly inexpensively unless the fault turns out to be a bad
servo chip or bad capstan motor.
electricitym
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none wrote:
$39 @ walmart = new VCR

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sorry shouldn't that be:


$39 @ walmart = new 'piece of flimsily made junk' VCR

??
Ben

"b" wrote in message
ups.com...

none wrote:
$39 @ walmart = new VCR

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sorry shouldn't that be:


$39 @ walmart = new 'piece of flimsily made junk' VCR

??
Ben

Yes, but for 89.00 you could add 'with Progressive Scan DVD player made by
Pioneer'...

I do believe the OP wanted to fix this unit and I cannot see why not, as
there is a certain and great satisfaction in repairing any older items, be
it a '57 Thunderbird or a 15 y.o. TV set.

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:32:42 GMT, "Steven" wrote:


"b" wrote in message
oups.com...

none wrote:
$39 @ walmart = new VCR

I do believe the OP wanted to fix this unit and I cannot see why not, as
there is a certain and great satisfaction in repairing any older items, be
it a '57 Thunderbird or a 15 y.o. TV set.


Its a dual unit, not just a vcr. Arent any dual units for $39.
Besides, it has RF out & for a dvd player, that's important to me.
Usually I would think that RF out for DVD would suck but it actually
produces a pretty decent picture.

b wrote:

: none wrote:
: $39 @ walmart = new VCR
: sorry shouldn't that be:
: $39 @ walmart = new 'piece of flimsily made junk' VCR

$99 at Costco = replacement cost. Hardly worth the trouble fixing it.

b.