I have worked on a lot of these over the years. One problem they will have is the pin pressed into the slant tape guides to hold them onto the arm that moves them around the head will get loose and come off the arm and jam up the unit. after totally disassembling unit I will glue the pin back into place. Also the set screw that hold the adjustable guide with the slant post get loose and throws the alignment way off. I usually apply some loctite to the threads and reinstall. Then yuo need to do a complete tape path alignment. The most annoying problem with these is that the aluminum stand up capacitors all start to go bad and leak, even some of the small radial caps go bad. I usually end up replacing all the aluminum capacitors(might be 50 of them) and repairing any damaged traces. I check the ESR on the radial caps and replace as needed. Have fun, Dale Dale A. Lubow C.E.T. Harris TV & Appliance 335 Lincoln Way Ames, IA 50010 515-232-1109 (Voice) 515-232-3356 (Fax) HarrisTV50010@xxxxxxx From: "David Lessard" <mr_fixit@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [TechAssist] Sony Camcorder - CCD-F55 - Eject Sign Present With Tape Loaded Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:36:36 -0400 Tape loads ok but eject sign appears a few seconds after tape loads then no functions, i.e. RW, FF, PLAY, etc because unit thinks there is no tape. Euras database has a tip on this but I'm not a member. Second problem: In CAM mode, view finder image is out of sync vertically. Do any of these problems sound familiar to anyone? Thanks, David Lessard Mr_fixit@xxxxxxxxxxxx Alexandria, Ontario, Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email List is Public. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Appliance Repair List: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/chatjoin.htm#app Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email List is Public. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Appliance Repair List: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/chatjoin.htm#app Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/