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23rd Jan 2022, 2:54 pm | #21 |
Triode
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Milan, Italy
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Re: Is this Sony VCR worth repair ?
In the end I picked up a silver Sony SLV-SE710 from a local flea market for 10 EUR. It lacks the remote, but it can be easily found on e-bay.
S-mechanism, it is working fine, very clean inside, display still very bright; it appears to have very little hours of use. The top cover has scratches from a black TV, but for the price I cannot be too picky. I would say mid to low range from 2001, but it seems to me still decently built, lot's of metal parts, hard plastic gears, heavily engineered design. |
23rd Jan 2022, 3:40 pm | #22 |
Hexode
Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: Weymouth, Dorset, UK.
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Re: Is this Sony VCR worth repair ?
The SLV-SE710 was one of the better machines, just before software took over mechanical error correction, the way the camcorders went.
Pity VHS took over Betamax. Betamax was a better system in my view, almost as good as Video 2000 or Hi8.
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23rd Jan 2022, 5:28 pm | #23 |
Pentode
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Athens, Greece.
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Re: Is this Sony VCR worth repair ?
Hi
Very good deal. This machine have the SR mechanism it was the last mechanism made by sony. After that sony used rebadged samsung machines. |
23rd Jan 2022, 7:16 pm | #24 | |
Triode
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Location: Milan, Italy
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Re: Is this Sony VCR worth repair ?
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I have removed the head cleaning arm, the foam is still intact (and not a single trace of dirt) but it is 20 years old and I do not want to clog the heads with pieces of foam when it starts disintegrating. I have another Samsung VCR from 2005 and the VHS mechanism looks more fragile, with very thin gears. It is still working perfectly fine, but I do not trust it to last many more years. Last edited by enryfox; 23rd Jan 2022 at 7:26 pm. |
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