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No.1 Labrat · 22nd Jul 2021, 8:05 am

Hi there.
My first impulse is to say, the one I am currently working on.

But seriously, leaving camcorders aside, I did have a terrible period learning to tame the
Sanyo, Tandy/Realistic, mechanism P88. This later became the P89, P90, P91, P92.

While we are speaking of bad machines to work on, does anyone remember the Samsung VB-370 VCR ? Its power supply would over-volt and destroy everything in sight before the power supply itself would die.
It would incinerate tracks, kill the capstan motor, kill the micro, the loading motor I.C. , and go on to burn tracks and components on the front panel board. Then you would have to rebuild the the power supply too.

Like the family with a Black Sheep, Samsung seem to have erased any knowledge of that model ever existing.
But I remember. And years of therapy have failed to eliminate the nightmares.

Now I only fix VCR's for fun.

Cheers.

Wayne.

22nd Jul 2021, 8:05 am	#6
No.1 Labrat Triode Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Penrith, New South Wales, Australia Posts: 26	Re: What is the worst VCR to work on? Hi there. My first impulse is to say, the one I am currently working on. But seriously, leaving camcorders aside, I did have a terrible period learning to tame the Sanyo, Tandy/Realistic, mechanism P88. This later became the P89, P90, P91, P92. While we are speaking of bad machines to work on, does anyone remember the Samsung VB-370 VCR ? Its power supply would over-volt and destroy everything in sight before the power supply itself would die. It would incinerate tracks, kill the capstan motor, kill the micro, the loading motor I.C. , and go on to burn tracks and components on the front panel board. Then you would have to rebuild the the power supply too. Like the family with a Black Sheep, Samsung seem to have erased any knowledge of that model ever existing. But I remember. And years of therapy have failed to eliminate the nightmares. Now I only fix VCR's for fun. Cheers. Wayne.