Jerry, Check the gears... Check the carriage right side plate for white gears. Check the chassis gear that the right side plate rack gear engages, if it is also white it needs a carriage upgrade. Wear or cracked gears will throw off the mode switch and can cause a number of different symptoms. If it has the upgraded carriage in it those gears are black. If that's the case it may be in the mode switch. HTH Bill William Rayburn, CET Premium Technologies PO Box 442 Long Beach, WA. 98631 360-642-4993 ----- Original Message ----- From: "J Silverman" <greentron@xxxxxxx> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 1:53 PM Subject: [TechAssist] Samsung VR8706 control problem This 1995 vcr loads cassette, threads tape, unthreads tape, threads up again, and starts running in the rewind direction. Must unplug to stop it. Plug it in and turn on the power and it ejects the cassette. Power is clean and mechanism switches, end sensors, reel sensors, drum and capstan PGs and FGs all check OK. Once in a rare moment it might operate properly. Jerry Silverman Greentron Inc 4 Newland Ave Greenville SC 29609 Fax/Phone 864 232 3889 mail to: greentron@xxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email List is accessible to the general public through search engines. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm Set Vacation mailto:ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=set%20techassist%20vacation Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email List is accessible to the general public through search engines. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm Set Vacation mailto:ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=set%20techassist%20vacation Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/