Please recommend a VCR repair shop in Portland, OR
July 27, 2009 12:28 AM Subscribe
Repair/service a twenty-year-old JVC BP-5300U videocassette player in the Portland, OR metro area?
This old iron beast worked faithfully and well for year after year after year of heavy use until late in life losing its ability to play tape after tape after endless tape. They'd slow down, or sometimes be unable to start playing. If I let it cool overnight or for a few days, sometimes it'd work again, but it hasn't been used in a couple of years. On looking into retirement plans or disposal options, I discovered the thing's still worth a few hundred dollars, so I figure it's worth trying to repair, especially if the mechanical troubles are merely fans or rubber belts or something.
This old iron beast worked faithfully and well for year after year after year of heavy use until late in life losing its ability to play tape after tape after endless tape. They'd slow down, or sometimes be unable to start playing. If I let it cool overnight or for a few days, sometimes it'd work again, but it hasn't been used in a couple of years. On looking into retirement plans or disposal options, I discovered the thing's still worth a few hundred dollars, so I figure it's worth trying to repair, especially if the mechanical troubles are merely fans or rubber belts or something.
Believe it or not, the biggest users of VCRs are educational institutions. See if you can ring someone in multimedia or instructional media (usually in the school library) either at a local grade school or at the ISD (Instructional Services District) technical support group. When I was in high school in West Linn 10 years ago, we'd send our VHS players to a support group that I think was based out of Marylhurst University and served both the Lake Oswego and West Linn schools... but I can't recall any better than that.
posted by SpecialK at 7:26 AM on July 27, 2009
posted by SpecialK at 7:26 AM on July 27, 2009
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95% probability that it's belts, but taking that tank apart would challenge me, and I'm fearless.
If you can get a few hundred bux for it, you can buy a few dozen spare JVC consumer grade units. Any repair shop you can find will charge you $100, at least, to spend half a day disassembling it, fixing it, and reassembling it.
MCM sells repair parts and belts, but they don't show anythign for that model. Service manual available on eBay for $25.
posted by FauxScot at 5:13 AM on July 27, 2009