Roy J. Tellason wrote
 
-----------VCR
 
 
 
RJT> Yeah, that's what I was thinking about,
> yanking the tuner portions out of one or more of
> the dead ones I have in storage for parts.
 
PM> Do you have to go to the trouble of yanking
> the tuner portion from the VCR? Can't you rig it
> up by simply connecting the old VCR to your TV --
> using the TV as a monitor? You can't play tapes
> but you can then at least use the VCR's remote to
> switch channels.
 
PM> I'm assuming here that only the tape mechanism
> on the broken VCR is defective, and everything
> else works.
 
> Well, it depends. One of the things that took me a
> while to find out back when I was fixing this
> stuff was that a typical VHS machine will do a
> little mechanical bit when you first plug it in.
 
 [snip]
 
 Shoot. Always those additional wrinkles to make
 life more complicated.
 
 I guess I lucked out when I set mine up.
 
 Snipped part saved to make my head spin in the
 future, should I come across that type of VCR
 problem.
 

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