For all those saying for him to upgrade..i mean what's wrong with hanging with oldschool technology? You can still be in the 21st century and like old technology, one thing doesn't stop the other!
I have a 2010 awesome computer and i still use a 1998 computer with a 3dfx card to play online some glide games.
I have a awseome media center connected to my huge lcd tv and i still have a old VHS coupled with it to play old vhs.
Anyway this video is rather old, did you managed to fix that betamax?
"it will do it no matter how many times you get it fixed"
Only if you don't fix the right problem and you don't do the job right the first time.
As for the problem recurring again, sure it will, but that would happen only if the replacement caps fail. If the replacement caps were made correctly, are high quality and fresh instead of old and/or cheap, and properly installed, then those caps won't fail until a couple of decades later or so.
in response to the one reivewer ada i managed to find a vcr at good quality which is hard to beleive in this day and age i found a pannasonic region free vcr and its great quality for a modern day one if anyone wants pics email me here on youtube be glad to send you some
Your having problems with the capstan servo lock, intermitently. Your drum Or capstan lock is either out of adjustment, or you have a series of bad capacitors. Replace C011 and C010. This should resolve the problem with this machine.
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What's causing it is you bought a cheap clunky BETAMAX VIDEO PLAYER WHY WHY WHY!!!Chuck it in the bin and join the 21st century man.Watch your Frankie Vaughan on something else.Them click sounds with the buttons are like thunderclaps.I hope you paid tap washers for it.How can we enjoy the video when it won't play reet.
I have a mechanical clicking sound about every 5 seconds, I looked and its a series of like hinged arms the are repeatly being push out from a piston behind and to the left of the big spinning circle. If I replace all the capacitors will this cure this 1980 Sears/Sanyo 5050. I got it free and can afford to make a mistake learning
I really have no idea what may be causing your issue, but usually VCR issues tend to be mechanical, so I don't know if replacing the caps will really do anything in your case.
However, replacing the blue Sanyo capacitors WILL work on the SONY (not SANYO) SL-5000 series VCRs.
Modern vhs decks are made very cheaply like anything else now a days.. Most electronics are made to be thrown away when they fail, unlike the 80s and prior, where made to be serviced when problems occur..........
Speed problems. The blue caps all need to be replaced on the service board ss-9 board, they dry out and cause speed problems. Everyone of those unit I come across have the same problem. Send me a message with your e-mail and I will tell you where to get the parts
I forgot to mention. if you haven't replaced the belts in that unit. I'm sure it needs a belt kit. I know where to get belt kits for those. Those blue caps are the culprits when it comes to tape speed and drum speed. I own a SL-5000 SL-5100 SL-5101, SL-5200 and two Zenith Sony clones. Those only record in BII and BIII, and can playback all three...
Also i forgot to mention. I could walk you through the process on replacing the blue caps. They are only around 10 of them. Once they are replaced you will have to adjust the on board knobs that are around the those caps to adjust the right speeds on both speeds. I adjust them while playing a tape. alining the speeds to playback in both speeds correct can be a pain in the but. Some people do the adjustments without replacing the blue caps, but that only gets rid of the problem temporary...
I was able to adjust 2 pots on the board to get mine to correctly play in either Beta II or III, but not both. I did that like 7 years ago. When I made that video 3 years ago, it was all out of whack again.
I have mine in storage boxed up, but once I can get to it again, I'm going to restore it.
I remember when I was in high school, back in the 90s when I found my first SL-5000 which I don't have anymore, I would adjust those to get it to play correctly in one speed or the other, not both. I gave up on it...I recently discoverd thanks to the betamax pal site, that the blue sanyo caps are the problem.. Each unit that i get off ebay or find of the 5000 series or any Zenith clones, I just replace all the blue caps on the SS-9 board.
(Contiued) Also most of time, the belts fail too. So I replace all of them as well even if they don't fail. I can say that those are one of Sony's best built beta vcrs. And the first front loading vcr ever built, notice the right side loading. I also have a few vhs vcrs that load the tape long ways on the right. JVC and Zenith made VHS vcrs like that in the late 80s. I have a few of those...
I'm suprised That the vcr on this vid still has a picture, allot of times the head drum speed is also off causing nothing but a snowy picture. So a few of those blue caps are still putting out there value. Still note that all of those caps will need to be replaced, or they will fault in the future, u also might have to adjust the head drum speed once the new caps are put in.
(Continued) Note, make sure that those caps are replaced with the same value caps, the voltage you can go up, most if not all of those blue caps are 16 volts, I replace mine with 50 volt caps...When you want to replace them I can give you the website and part numbers, so you get the right capacitors, and also the site for belt kits....
I had bought the original Beta 1, and it did not have a clock and the buttons were all mechanical. I thought that the motor in it was big enough to run a washing machine. I think I left it in Seattle Wa. As speedyc395 says, re-cap-ing the electrolytic is a good idea. I do know that the speed of the helix heads and the speed of the tape transport are critical. If you have access to an old TV repair shop, they may have some info you can use.
I agree with all, CAPS. We had many of these machines at work (TV Station) used as dubbing decks, as Speedy says they are a TANK!, and same problem. GREAT machine and worth keeping, but once the CAPS are replaced you'll have a keeper.
I'll try and find out which needs replacing from schematics from work and relay the details to you!
I have yet to repair mine, but this is where that ESR meter I bought will come in handy. I have a feeling pretty much the majority of the unit will need recapped.
I have an SL-5000 from 1981... Very similar units. I nicknamed mine the tank.
Mine does EXACTLY the same thing (including not playing on Beta III). It is not a mechanical issue. It is definitely an electrolytic cap problem again...
Mine also had bad caps in the clock/timer circuit as well.
It works perfectly when it is cold, but after it has been in use for 15 minutes, it begins to do that, and the clock starts displaying unusual characters.
Dry caps
shesnailie 2 weeks ago
is not really broken,is just the picture refuse to adjust it.
cameron20101000 9 months ago
For all those saying for him to upgrade..i mean what's wrong with hanging with oldschool technology? You can still be in the 21st century and like old technology, one thing doesn't stop the other!
I have a 2010 awesome computer and i still use a 1998 computer with a 3dfx card to play online some glide games.
I have a awseome media center connected to my huge lcd tv and i still have a old VHS coupled with it to play old vhs.
Anyway this video is rather old, did you managed to fix that betamax?
rick62008 1 year ago 3
@rick62008 No, but I have since acquired an an SL-5000 and it is working fantastically.
CassetteMaster 1 year ago
thats a broken videohead
dannyjaar 1 year ago
you sound like elvis! uh hu hu! yeah
amigaknight 1 year ago
I´ve got a 1985 ad for the SL 5000
It says "A VCR so adwavenced you don´t even need to push POWER Button????" Automatic Cassette Front Loading System
What difrenece with HF 5000?
supermasterPIK 2 years ago
Most of the issues with thease sony vcr's was caps in the servo circut and also drum caps inside the drum motor is a cap as well sometimes fail.
rick601a 2 years ago
From 1982. Retailed for $995 back in the day.
cbehr91 2 years ago
capstan lock. this is the same as the Australian name - Sony SLC6AS
I have two of them
it will do it no matter how many times you get it fixed.
svr73 2 years ago
"it will do it no matter how many times you get it fixed"
Only if you don't fix the right problem and you don't do the job right the first time.
As for the problem recurring again, sure it will, but that would happen only if the replacement caps fail. If the replacement caps were made correctly, are high quality and fresh instead of old and/or cheap, and properly installed, then those caps won't fail until a couple of decades later or so.
Watcher3223 2 years ago
Why not just get a modern day system
liddlepeep 3 years ago
why dont you fuckoff??
WULFY1993 2 years ago 4
He sounds like Elvis....So he is alive...with Beta problems!
MrBetamax 3 years ago
Bad caps. Find and replace them all.
Watcher3223 3 years ago
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you should upgrade LOL
oldbinny 3 years ago
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i think i like dvd better
jasonhdvideoman 3 years ago
looks almost like it's a tracking problem, but i can't be too sure without actually physically being there :/
lmull3 3 years ago
in response to the one reivewer ada i managed to find a vcr at good quality which is hard to beleive in this day and age i found a pannasonic region free vcr and its great quality for a modern day one if anyone wants pics email me here on youtube be glad to send you some
stpworld 3 years ago
I remember that problem and it is most likely the capstan servo adjustment.
Anderskh 4 years ago
Beta Forever!
Nokorola 4 years ago 6
Your having problems with the capstan servo lock, intermitently. Your drum Or capstan lock is either out of adjustment, or you have a series of bad capacitors. Replace C011 and C010. This should resolve the problem with this machine.
civicboy123 4 years ago
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What's causing it is you bought a cheap clunky BETAMAX VIDEO PLAYER WHY WHY WHY!!!Chuck it in the bin and join the 21st century man.Watch your Frankie Vaughan on something else.Them click sounds with the buttons are like thunderclaps.I hope you paid tap washers for it.How can we enjoy the video when it won't play reet.
beerhunter7 4 years ago
I got it for free and I LOVE those chunk sounds! LOVE those chunk sounds!
CassetteMaster 4 years ago
just the light blue ones. They say Sanyo on them.
I just recieved a Zenith clone from ebay that I restored the other day and have the old caps in my hand as I type. I counted 13 of them...
ada19851985 4 years ago
I have a mechanical clicking sound about every 5 seconds, I looked and its a series of like hinged arms the are repeatly being push out from a piston behind and to the left of the big spinning circle. If I replace all the capacitors will this cure this 1980 Sears/Sanyo 5050. I got it free and can afford to make a mistake learning
GameICY 2 years ago
I really have no idea what may be causing your issue, but usually VCR issues tend to be mechanical, so I don't know if replacing the caps will really do anything in your case.
However, replacing the blue Sanyo capacitors WILL work on the SONY (not SANYO) SL-5000 series VCRs.
Teraforce88 2 years ago
Modern Vhs decks are still worse
ive got through 3 in the last 5 years
the worst thing is when you get tracking prblems on them which cause the machine to jump between stereo and linear mono sound over and over.
jedw 4 years ago
Modern vhs decks are made very cheaply like anything else now a days.. Most electronics are made to be thrown away when they fail, unlike the 80s and prior, where made to be serviced when problems occur..........
ada19851985 4 years ago 3
i agree
damusician 4 years ago
I agree I bought a 1980's VCR for this very reason itr has LOTS of strange contrls too!
raymondleeleggs 4 years ago
So right, I've got a Sanyo VTC-9300PN, made in 1978...And it is still working without a single service for 30 years, its its 30th anniversary!
freax12 4 years ago
I'm guessing there's something wrong with some kind of regulator or the tracking system. I'm guessing it's some sort of mechanical problem.
Trance88 4 years ago
Speed problems. The blue caps all need to be replaced on the service board ss-9 board, they dry out and cause speed problems. Everyone of those unit I come across have the same problem. Send me a message with your e-mail and I will tell you where to get the parts
ada19851985 4 years ago
I forgot to mention. if you haven't replaced the belts in that unit. I'm sure it needs a belt kit. I know where to get belt kits for those. Those blue caps are the culprits when it comes to tape speed and drum speed. I own a SL-5000 SL-5100 SL-5101, SL-5200 and two Zenith Sony clones. Those only record in BII and BIII, and can playback all three...
ada19851985 4 years ago
Also i forgot to mention. I could walk you through the process on replacing the blue caps. They are only around 10 of them. Once they are replaced you will have to adjust the on board knobs that are around the those caps to adjust the right speeds on both speeds. I adjust them while playing a tape. alining the speeds to playback in both speeds correct can be a pain in the but. Some people do the adjustments without replacing the blue caps, but that only gets rid of the problem temporary...
ada19851985 4 years ago
Thanks for the info!
CassetteMaster 4 years ago
I was able to adjust 2 pots on the board to get mine to correctly play in either Beta II or III, but not both. I did that like 7 years ago. When I made that video 3 years ago, it was all out of whack again.
I have mine in storage boxed up, but once I can get to it again, I'm going to restore it.
speedyc395 4 years ago
I remember when I was in high school, back in the 90s when I found my first SL-5000 which I don't have anymore, I would adjust those to get it to play correctly in one speed or the other, not both. I gave up on it...I recently discoverd thanks to the betamax pal site, that the blue sanyo caps are the problem.. Each unit that i get off ebay or find of the 5000 series or any Zenith clones, I just replace all the blue caps on the SS-9 board.
ada19851985 4 years ago
(Contiued) Also most of time, the belts fail too. So I replace all of them as well even if they don't fail. I can say that those are one of Sony's best built beta vcrs. And the first front loading vcr ever built, notice the right side loading. I also have a few vhs vcrs that load the tape long ways on the right. JVC and Zenith made VHS vcrs like that in the late 80s. I have a few of those...
ada19851985 4 years ago
I'm suprised That the vcr on this vid still has a picture, allot of times the head drum speed is also off causing nothing but a snowy picture. So a few of those blue caps are still putting out there value. Still note that all of those caps will need to be replaced, or they will fault in the future, u also might have to adjust the head drum speed once the new caps are put in.
ada19851985 4 years ago
(Continued) Note, make sure that those caps are replaced with the same value caps, the voltage you can go up, most if not all of those blue caps are 16 volts, I replace mine with 50 volt caps...When you want to replace them I can give you the website and part numbers, so you get the right capacitors, and also the site for belt kits....
ada19851985 4 years ago
I looked on the board. There are 12 light blue caps, and several dark blue caps. Are you meaning the lightr ble ones or all of them?
CassetteMaster 4 years ago
just the light blue ones. They say Sanyo on them.
I just recieved a Zenith clone from ebay that I restored the other day and have the old caps in my hand as I type. I counted 13 of them...
ada19851985 4 years ago
Thanks.
CassetteMaster 4 years ago
I guess Ray Glasser (formerly Videoholic2007 now videoholic2008) would love to see this.
HomeoftheGoodGuys 4 years ago
I had bought the original Beta 1, and it did not have a clock and the buttons were all mechanical. I thought that the motor in it was big enough to run a washing machine. I think I left it in Seattle Wa. As speedyc395 says, re-cap-ing the electrolytic is a good idea. I do know that the speed of the helix heads and the speed of the tape transport are critical. If you have access to an old TV repair shop, they may have some info you can use.
AllAmericanFiveRadio 4 years ago
Adjust the tracking ...?
EclipseWebJS 4 years ago
I agree with all, CAPS. We had many of these machines at work (TV Station) used as dubbing decks, as Speedy says they are a TANK!, and same problem. GREAT machine and worth keeping, but once the CAPS are replaced you'll have a keeper.
I'll try and find out which needs replacing from schematics from work and relay the details to you!
tubeie07 4 years ago
There's a comment on speedy's video about the speed issue. It's defintely the caps.
WillWatchAnything 4 years ago
I have yet to repair mine, but this is where that ESR meter I bought will come in handy. I have a feeling pretty much the majority of the unit will need recapped.
speedyc395 4 years ago
I have an SL-5000 from 1981... Very similar units. I nicknamed mine the tank.
Mine does EXACTLY the same thing (including not playing on Beta III). It is not a mechanical issue. It is definitely an electrolytic cap problem again...
Mine also had bad caps in the clock/timer circuit as well.
It works perfectly when it is cold, but after it has been in use for 15 minutes, it begins to do that, and the clock starts displaying unusual characters.
speedyc395 4 years ago
I posted a response of my SL-5000...
It is working correctly in the vid... but after 15-20 minutes, it will do what yours does. That part I did not show.
speedyc395 4 years ago
the congos sounds like techno on that machine. lol!
damusician 4 years ago