Defective JVC HR-D750U - Videokarma.org TV - Video

KekkyLekky · #1 08-27-2020, 12:49 PM

Well, my new Hi-Fi stereo VCR, a JVC HR-D750U, came in the mail today, and it was advertised as working good and having the best picture quality the eBay seller had ever seen. But, such was not the case when I tested it. The machine tried to play a tape, but it would stop after about a second of trying. The machine failed to load the tape into the cassette when "eject" was pushed, meaning that the tape is "stuck".
I took off the top cover to look inside, and there is a circuit board covering much of the moving parts of the mechanism, so I didn't wish to mess with the board out of fear of my inexperience. However, I did notice that the machine was spinning the reels of the cassette in an odd way when loaded into the machine, and I suspect that that spinning of the reels (if there is something wrong with that mechanism) is messing up either the threading of the tape or the amount of tape taken out of the cassette.
This is quite a disappointment, seeing how this is a pretty high-end circa late 1980s VCR that was described on its eBay listing as working okay and having the best picture quality the seller had ever seen.
What should I do? Attempt to repair it (note that I am inexperienced), or return it to the seller?

Electronic M · #2 08-27-2020, 01:09 PM

Unless you got it for dirt cheap return it. If you paid for a working deck you should get a working deck.

KekkyLekky · #3 08-27-2020, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Electronic M

Unless you got it for dirt cheap return it. If you paid for a working deck you should get a working deck.

Well, it was about $95 on eBay. A little pricey, but at least it wasn't a grail VCR. I think I'm going to return it. I was expecting to have a nice, high-end VCR.

Ed in Tx · #4 08-27-2020, 03:57 PM

I think that's one of the JVC models from the mid-late 80s that would have intermittent mechanism malfunction due to a screw on the bottom deck board that would come un-grounded from the board. That screw (actually 3 screws see pic) grounds the circuit board to the chassis. A simple star washer under the screw and tighten 'er down would usually fix it. A shot of Deoxit in the mode switch and work the mechanism with a tape shell "dummy tape" too, but you kinda need to know what you're doing.

Might try and work a deal with the seller to get a part refund if you have someone local that still knows how to properly repair a VCR.