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  • Re: Sony SLV-R5UC problems

    From Shams@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 7 11:27:17 2021
    Incredible! I was looking at a machine today going for 100 dollars. Should I not buy it then? sorry i am 20 years too late to this thread. I also was wondering if these machines can play PAL tapes? Thanks!

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  • From Adrian Caspersz@21:1/5 to Shams on Mon Nov 8 06:24:58 2021
    On 07/11/2021 19:27, Shams wrote:
    Incredible! I was looking at a machine today going for 100 dollars. Should I not buy it then? sorry i am 20 years too late to this thread. I also was wondering if these machines can play PAL tapes? Thanks!


    I'll bite. (You've added no context to the original post, amd I'm not
    looking)

    28 years old, probably filled with caps that will need replacing.

    Does it have a timebase corrector? So professional, or Sony hype?

    FULLY RESTORED Sony SLV-R5UC Stereo HiFi S-VHS VCR Auto-Tracking *90
    Days Wrty
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/193877871382


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    Adrian C

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  • From John Robertson@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 8 08:47:57 2021
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  • From Rayner Lucas@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 8 18:17:10 2021
    In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] says...

    Incredible! I was looking at a machine today going for 100 dollars.
    Should I not buy it then? sorry i am 20 years too late to this thread.

    Well, the group is still active, although the original thread
    participants have likely moved on.

    As all these units will be over 25 years old by now, it's likely they'll
    either need maintenance or will already have been fixed up at some point
    - check with the seller to see if they know if any work has already been
    done on it. There's a discussion over on the Tapeheads forum that
    describes most of the common faults: http://www.tapeheads.net/showthread.php?t=63552

    You should probably at least count on having to replace the power supply capacitors if this hasn't been done already. Any mains-powered
    electronics from the 80s and 90s should ideally be checked for dried-up smoothing capacitors in the PSU, as well as the infamous exploding RIFA line-filter caps, and I think that goes double for a machine with known power-supply reliability issues.

    I also was wondering if these machines can play PAL tapes? Thanks!

    No mention of it in the manual, so I'd assume not.

    R

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  • From three_jeeps@21:1/5 to Shams on Mon Nov 8 16:10:44 2021
    On Sunday, November 7, 2021 at 2:27:20 PM UTC-5, Shams wrote:
    Incredible! I was looking at a machine today going for 100 dollars. Should I not buy it then? sorry i am 20 years too late to this thread. I also was wondering if these machines can play PAL tapes? Thanks!
    Why don't you exercise your google-foo and spend some meaningful time with your browser and FIND OUT ON YOUR OWN!!!
    J

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