Okay, this is a Sony CCD F201. It’s a 1991 model Video8 camcorder. This is the rest of it here. We’ve taken off this cover cuz we’re trying to get this stuck tape out of here. It’s the customer’s camera. They brought it in. The camera’s completely dead. Hooking up power back to these terminals here doesn’t work. Camera doesn’t turn on at all. So, we’re gonna try and hotwire it a little bit using this motor here to activate the transport. So, we’ve got our lab power supply here set to about five six volts.
And we’ll try to put a little power into this thing and see if we can get that thing to pop out. So, stand by. Okay. So, I pulled back the tape that covers contacts on this motor and we’re going to put a little bit of voltage on here.
Maybe have to go the other way. Let’s try this.
It’s moving.
There we go. Look at that. Pop the tape right out.
We’ll rewind this. It’s got a
Maybe why the tape was stuck cuz this lid’s not really working either. We’ll get this tape fixed up and then we’ll transfer it to she’s getting DVDs and she’s getting a flash drive, MP4s files on the flash drive. So, if you have like an old camera like this and you got a tape in there you need to get out. If you’re not comfortable doing this kind of stuff you work yourself, bring it in. You can see here the little motor and they uh this is Sony manufacturing at the time in 1991. They used a little piece of kind of like cloth electrical tape to cover up those contacts. But that’s your motor that drives the whole transport mechanism and releases the hatch. So, got to get to that and then you can get your stuck tape out without having to uh totally destroy the camera.