G'day Denise,



25 May 96 10:02, Denise Webber wrote to Rod Gasson:



 DW>>> ***WARNING*** **WARNING***  ***ON TOPIC MESSAGE ALERT****



 DW>>> My Akai video recorder has developed a problem,

 RG>> This is no surprise.

 DW> I should also read the label, it's a samsung 



Almost as bad.   It wouldn't happen to be one of the following models

would it ?

VB300, VB320, VB350, VB370



If so, get rid of it while it still works..  there is a 95% chance that

the power supply is gunna shit itself within the next 12months.



 RG>> Anything can be fixed, its just a matter of how much you're

 RG>> prepared to pay.



 DW> or fiddle as the case may be.



:-)



 RG>> Impossible to say from the lack of information you've given. The

 RG>> problem could be caused from nothing more than the label of a

 RG>> tape jamming up the mechanism, to a motor or micro failure.



 DW> The problem was a marble inserted by my youngest that got jammed in

 DW> the eject mechanism..



I was close. Cassette labels are far more common than marbles though

;-)



 DW> Yesterday I took the lid off, removed the marble from the mechanism,

 DW> got the tape out, then took the bottom off so I could remove the

 DW> OTHER marble from the bottom and Voila it works...



,  It really is this kind of thing that makes remote

diagnosis of any particular fault difficult, yet there are so many

cuntstomers that expect a 'quote' over the phone.  :-(



Cheers,

Rod



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