RCA VMT-390 VCR

[harryhomer]

I have been away from repair too long. Wife's VCR, when set up to
record, records about 1 second and then stops. I cleaned the tape
path and pinch roller (it was squeeling), but it is still not working
and if I remember correctly there is something else that goes wrong to
cause this. Any suggestions?

 

[harryhomer]

Its the belts that are bad, they have stretched out of shape.  You should
replace all of them.  I think there were at least 6 of them.






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Thank you; I bought a belt kit from the local electronics store and
installed them last night; VCR works great; they were really stretched
out of shape; all of them. Even the wife commented it rewinds better
now in addition to recording properly.