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jasejames · 9th Feb 2019, 5:08 am

I will be looking at this in the coming days however I did time the VCR just now. From cold it basically cannot rewind a tape that's near the start at all. However winding said tape to the end takes around 5 and a half minutes.

Rewinding the tape back to the start takes 4 minutes 30 and the machine is pretty consistent at that speed from that point onwards.

I have set the recorder off with no tape inwhen warmed up in ff/rew and I have to say that there seems to be a shedload of torque present. I will try that again when it is cold. I'm starting to think the idler just needs roughing up as has been said, as I find it hard to believe that a tired motor would fire into what seems to be near 100% condition within a couple of minutes... Perhaps the old belt was providing enough slippage to mask this condition previously?

Torque mod to be applied tomorrow hopefully.

9th Feb 2019, 5:08 am	#17
jasejames Retired Dormant Member Join Date: Jan 2019 Location: Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, UK. Posts: 7	Re: Sanyo VTC5000 problems when cold only I will be looking at this in the coming days however I did time the VCR just now. From cold it basically cannot rewind a tape that's near the start at all. However winding said tape to the end takes around 5 and a half minutes. Rewinding the tape back to the start takes 4 minutes 30 and the machine is pretty consistent at that speed from that point onwards. I have set the recorder off with no tape inwhen warmed up in ff/rew and I have to say that there seems to be a shedload of torque present. I will try that again when it is cold. I'm starting to think the idler just needs roughing up as has been said, as I find it hard to believe that a tired motor would fire into what seems to be near 100% condition within a couple of minutes... Perhaps the old belt was providing enough slippage to mask this condition previously? Torque mod to be applied tomorrow hopefully.