Just a short one this week (with another short one on Wednesday). We have a Sanyo VTC5000 Betacord. Only Sony could use the Betamax name so other manufacturers used just Beta or Betacord. Done on a bit of a quick turn around with a subsequent long soaktest to make sure it's as perfect as it can be.

Hope you enjoyed this one. I have to say I'd forgotten some of the finer points of repairing these machines (brain fog from too much going on is my excuse!) so forgive the somewhat amatuer nature in parts of the video. Lots more Sanyo Beta fun to come including a highend NTSC machine, some more VTC6500 fun and the VTC5150.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:28 Morphy Richards mains plug!
02:05 Checks before powering on and first test
05:15 First cassette checks
07:10 Tape path check and clean up
08:23 Bottom of the machine
10:14 Testing after a clean up
13:05 Removing the top loading system
14:07 Checking the idler assembly
16:14 Top loading mechanism reassembly
17:16 Final checks

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