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Old 04-09-2008, 13:27
seacam
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Hello,

Bush DVR HS01

Its a great unit for what it is and I have been doing a lot of transferring tapes to DVD and editing.

This machine up to a few months ago was never used, just an unused item purchased a long time ago sitting in a box.

It's making up for lost time, so far it has done about 150hrs of transferring VCR to DVD.

I thought I had a problem with some tapes but it turns out not.

If I put a tape into review or transfer to DVD the tape slews, then plays OK, either for a few seconds or a few minutes, then slews again., ( slow then normal ).

We have tried the same two or three tapes in different machines without a problem, it does appear to be this unit.

So I spoke to our local repair guy who gave me a guesstimate of £90 over the phone, £90 Quid!

Yes I know there are drive belts in the unit and this might be the problem,---but is it, what else could it be?

Could it simply be dirt on the heads, is there something on the remote that can adjust anything, could it simply be the tracking? I'm not getting any track lines/noise however.

If it is the drive belts, how do I get to them, where can I get spare belts for this model? I Googled but got no where.
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Old 04-09-2008, 13:37
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Not worth spending £90 to repair (repair, not replace) a VCR. Have a look on ebay, plenty going for a quid or so, buy a few, and use those to transfer the rest of your tapes over to your DVDR. Once your last tape has been copied to DVD, you'll never use the videotape side of things again anyway, so then you can get rid of both combi and VCR and buy yourself a decent DVDR.
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Old 04-09-2008, 20:50
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I would really like to repair myself, for the hell of it.

Anyone.
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Old 06-09-2008, 09:18
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Try here:

http://www.fixer.com/

But they do say it's very difficult to get VCR spare parts now....
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Old 06-09-2008, 10:15
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just out of daftness , have you tried running a head cleaning tape through it , worth a go if nothing else
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