This week we're looking at a Sony SL8000 Betamax from the late 70's. An amazing piece of kit with great quality build and lots of belts! The mains motor is fun too, especially when it comes to servo control. I will be doing a much more cohesive indepth video on one of these machines soon including using the tools in the Sony case to check and adjust alignment and i might even read the service manual which I really should have at least flicked through before looking at this one.

Hope you enjoyed this one and lots more to come too.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:45 Looking over the machine
04:44 Checking the belts
06:50 Bottom board and the delay lines
07:50 Mains switch sticking and fuse location
08:42 Cleaning the front leaf switches
13:15 Reassembly
14:17 First power on test
19:06 Removing the top loading system
24:03 Checking and sorting the idlers
32:14 Gunk and head cleaning
33:48 First playback test
38:48 Reassembly of the front loading system
43:42 Back tension arm damper
45:22 Back tension arm parked position alignment
46:47 The top loading system cassette height issue
47:34 Testing the machine

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