Cleaning help!
Help!
I had a wonderfully working Sanyo Beta Hi Fi until I bought a “working” Star Wars tape from eBay.
Seller noted that it was tested and working, it was a super cool Japanese edition so I went for it.
Popped it in my player without taking the tape apart and it made some noises, ripped, and now my other videos don’t work. My perfectly good player is only giving me snow for video.
I took the star wars tape apart and found what appears to be mold inside which makes sense why it would not work….
Here I am just wanting my old player to function again. I have a cleaning tape on the way, what else do I need to do??
Currently I have this old motocross tape I use to test things, I have solid audio and the video is all snow. I have played with all setting and channels and it’s the same so I assume the video head is very dirty now.
I am an engineer and technically confident. Please help!
UPDATE:
Got a full refund from the seller, ordered the entire mold removal kit from vhsislife.com.
Also ordered new belts and a head cleaning kit so I will use this as an opportunity to take my player apart, replace belts and clean the heads really good with alcohol.
I will use this as a lessons learned to inspect all tapes from eBay before playing them. I’ll use this now broken tape as a test subject for the mold removal kit so I can practice and get good!