RESTORATION of Expensive S-VHS VCR | Retro Repair Guy Episode 38

The thirty eight episode of the Retro Repair Guy. A series aimed at retro and vintage electronic repair and restoration.

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00:00 Snazzy Intro
00:39 Brief History of Hitachi
06:17 Show Intro
09:29 Our Sponsor PCBWay
10:01 Initial Testing of the S-VHS VCR
12:02 Disassembling the VCR
14:34 Repairing the Old S-VHS Recorder Part One
19:25 Notes about Fuses
21:03 Repairing the VCR Part Two
25:41 Rub-a-dub-dub
26:55 Repairing the JVC S-VHS Part Three
29:43 Notes on Repairing VCRs
33:32 Reassembly of the JVC S-VHS Recorder
38:21 Before & After
40:31 Testing the Restored S-VHS VCR
42:36 Wrap Up
43:40 Credits


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[nigelpottinger]

This is my first time viewing your channel and I'm totally blown away very impressed with your professionalism clean in how you work going the extra mile in replacing those bad capacitors being honest with what really wrong in the system you're repairing and teaching me so much

[RudysRetroIntel]

Fantastic work!! You are an extremely talented man!! Thanks for sharing, and once again, congratulations on your wedding!

[juliancurtis]

Mr's RG is both very tolerant of your collections.. & quite a looker. hope you guys have a long & happy marriage

[michaell]

Nice work on the restoration! Brings back memories for me of a previous career though where I'm from JVC were considered very reliable but niche' whereas National/Panasonic were the dominant brand in that era. The S-VHS models were the ones we always lusted after. Beautiful machines.

[plexnbrown]

Really likes the music you selected for this one, nice job on this sir reminds me when I tried to open laser disc player to repair it quickly closed it with so many boards.

[LosmundosdeENORM]

Awesome job !! It can be seen the love you use with this device !!

[nigelpottinger]

Congratulations on your wedding both you guys seem happy and look good together

[hal-rekabi]

a fast blowing fuse on a similar VCR power supply saved my life after I was electrocuted. the power supply was in my hand and my arm slammed the power supply into my chest. i still have faint marks after 18 years of the incident on my chest of a Panasonic VCR power supply soldering joints diagram. the fuse saved my life.

[plexnbrown]

Man last action hero that brings back memories. My son and I trade Arnie one liners all the time. One of our things

[Capturing-Memories]

Nice introduction, I dug it. Also congrats on your wedding.

[mingusmofaz]

I have a couple of VCRs I picked up and one of them is this exact model! It was a pretty great player while it was still working. Your video has inspired me to open it up and do some repairs myself, this will be a great guideline to follow.

[Enigma]

Nice! "If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing."

[speed_rider]

This is an excellent repair! I would also remove the green battery shown at 14:30 just to be safe. You do not need memory backup nowadays and these batteries tend to leak when this old.

[philcarter]

Love the Initech mug!
Is that Milton's stapler up on the shelf as well?
Of course the question has to be "did you get the memo about the TPS reports" 😄

Great job on the restore, turned into a really nice deck and that pause is very impressive for VHS!

[olepigeon]

Hmm. I have an HR-S8000U that looks to have an identical mechanism. I recapped my power supply and I also applied rubber rejuvenator to the idle and pinch roller, but no luck. It has trouble playing on the first try. It also won't rewind, but it will fast forward. I found a company in Canada that has replacement pinch rollers, so I'm going to order one.

[ASMRPeople]

15 or 20 years ago I had the white whale, a svhs jvc with a built in tbc. It quit working so I discarded it. I wish I held onto it. If you can even find those units today they're close to a thousand bucks.

[andreasbartel]

If I would wash parts of a VCR housing my wife would organize „professional help“

[giuseppelavecchia]

Ottimo video, quel modello e' molto buono, hai fatto bene a comprarlo e sistemarlo, quel videoregistratore e' di fascia alta insieme al modello HR-S5000, apparecchiature eccellenti.sei in gamba!

[jkmac]

I had the slightly earlier model in 1989 the JVC HR-S5000. Almost identical to this one but it had a lot more switches and no menu button on the fold down panel, so maybe this HR-S5500 was one of the earliest VCRs to feature on-screen display and menu driven settings.

[wallyf]

RRG, CONGRATS again. Mrs. RRG is getting younger and younger everytime we see her on your videos. That store you purchased the roller, is it 20 mins South, North, East or west from your place video and excellent repair like usual..