This ones a little bit different insofar as we're looking at a Sony SL-HF100 Betamax - the first consumer BetaHiFi machine in the UK and Europe. This one is quite tired and is going to need quite a bit of TLC to bring it back to life and working well again but in part 1, we make good progress.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:45 Issues and what we'll fixing
02:21 Mains plug
02:48 Changing the split lacing gear
10:15 Resurfacing the upper drum
15:25 Completing the loading/ lacing reassembly
20:15 Power supply - changing capacitors
23:33 First test after power supply and loading issue
24:00 Not lacing
25:55 Playback test and another issue!
26:47 Adjustment to get the deck to lace
28:15 Swapping the YC28 board with a good one as a test
30:00 First diagnostics for the colour issue
31:22 Changing the power supply capacitors in the can
35:40 The whistle from the power supply is gone!
36:43 Leaky capacitors...
37:29 Colour fault first checks
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