Repairing a Panasonic DMR EX99V

This VHS Video, DVD and HDD Recorder combi had a mechanical failure in the VHS Mechanism, due to little fingers posting the battery cover from a remote control into it. It took a little while to discover what had been broken and then two attempts to fix it were tried, the second successfully using "micro welding" or soldering. Once fixed, the mechanism works perfectly.

It's a bit of a long video even though I have sped up some of the more mundane unscrewing and screwing sections, but it does show the diagnosis, the repair work necessary and testing. Hope you find it useful and entertaining.

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MUSIC:
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Find Your Way Beat - Nana Kwabena
Can I Tell You a Secret - TrackTribe
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Contents.
00:00 Intro
02:12 Initial internal inspection
04:37 Early signs of the problem
09:10 Manual testing
10:00 Deck Removal
11:14 Underside of deck inspection
15:05 Cassette Lifter Removal
16:48 A problem with the gears
18:00 Head drum Motor and Drum removal - for safety sake
20:00 Mechanism dismantling begins
26:00 The faulty part is identified
29:18 No spares from Panasonic, what to do?
29:45 The decision on how to fix is made and the work begins
39:44 The first repair attempt fails
40:41 Try again - micro-welding (soldering).
49:26 It seems to be fixed, clean up, reassemble and test
58:35 Initial testing after reassembly of the deck
01:00:35 Head drum and motor reassembly
01:02: 10 Cassette lifter reinstallation and alignment
01:02:40 Many hours later after a lot of angry words uttered, full mechanical testing
01:06:45 Mode switch alignment, mechanism refit and connections
01:08:58 Front panel reassembly
01:10:32 Power on and testing
01:15:45 Summary and thanks