Another VP-1000

[ChrisW6ATV]

Very cool that it works well as found. Do you get much (if any) video crosstalk on Extended Play (CLV) discs? That was the problem on my first VP-1000 in the mid-1980s. I talked to the Pioneer service department, and they sent me a nice USA-written service procedure manual that is supposed to be easier to follow than the Japanese-translated factory manual. But, they said I likely needed to adjust the spindle height to fix the crosstalk, and the jig for that was a $75 part, back when that seemed like $500 would now, just to make one adjustment. (I never did buy it, or fix the problem; later, I sold the player and bought several newer models over the years.)

I have, I think, three VP-1000s; I either never powered them up, or I did and they did not work. Projects for some future day (along with a VH-8000 that I would --love-- to get working!).