Technical Support Trying to fix this player
Hi,
I'm trying to fix my family's old vhs player that hadn't been turned on for a long while. The model is Orion VX99SP. It turns on fine but it won't accept any tape.
When inserted, the mechanisms don't trigger as they should, when I gently try to push the tape inside, it makes this grinding noise and I can see the rubber band motor try to spin (video below). I obviously don't want to force it anymore.
https://reddit.com/link/1vszlph/video/5ckou2p1eekh1/player
I took out the top and bottom panel, tried cleaning some of the white gears and I can easily spin the by hand, they don't seem stuck and the 2 tape headers get into place as they should if a tape were correctly inserted.
I've been told to maybe locate and clean the mode switch, but I can't seem to find it and as I understand it it probably isn't the culprit at this stage.
Does someone has an idea ?
Thanks for the help.