[TechAssist] Re: Sylvania TV/VCR SSC130 Won't eject tape

  • From: "Dave Routson" <davestv@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:00:21 -0500

I have had several and in most cases
the best senereo I've come up with
is the mode switch failing intermittently
and so far every one that I have removed, cleaned and lubed the mode
switch has kept working. 
    Dave Routson
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <gulftech@xxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 12:19 PM
Subject: [TechAssist] Sylvania TV/VCR SSC130 Won't eject tape


> 
> Friends,
> 
> This combo is made by Funai.  Mfg. date, March, 2000.  The mechanism is
> the same as the Sylvania SSC090.  The poorest mechanism I have ever seen.
> 
> I have had about six of these sets in the past two months with the same
> symptom:  Won't eject tape, TV shuts down.  In each case, I removed the
> mechanism from the board and found it jammed.  I manually turned the belt
> operating the worm gear.  After hearing a click, the jam was gone and I
> could finish removing the tape, set the mode switch timing, and return
> the mechanism to the base.
> 
> Insert a tape, run through the paces, and eject ten or twenty times.  All
> perfect.  Well, almost.  One unit came back a month later.
> 
> Sorry I can describe this no better.  Like I said, a lousy mechanism. 
> Has anyone seen this and know what is locking up the gears? (Not a
> foreign object.)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Ken Smith
> Gulf Technical Services
> 3034 Gulf Breeze Parkway
> Gulf Breeze, FL  32561
> 850-934-8324 (Voice) 850-932-0819 (Fax)
> 
> 
> 
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