wouldn't it be easier to just get a vhs player from ebay that can play your tapes? I feel it's not just the speed the motors go but also likely to have something to do with the encoder/decoder hardware too? I might be wrong but simply slowing down the motors would just seem too easy a solution. Definately my advice would be to find another player rather than spend time modding such a legacy device for a one off usage. Oh! that and maybe find some help with your cleptomania! This kind of thing isn't too uncommon, I used to know somebody who had an obsession with collecting music, most of which he'd never listened to nor had any intentions of but he just became obsessed with it. If he had a single song by a particular band, he had a strange need to collect every single song that they ever did. I could never understand why, especially because it encapsulated music genres that he wasn't even into. The internet brought this kind of behaviour out in a lot of people, not that i'm wanting to fuel your "addiction" but maybe your time would be better invested obtaining and watching your shows in a digital format that can be stored on a harddrive in a relatively small physical size and have the ability to arrange them in whichever manner you desire. I would also bank on there being communities out there dedicated to your favourite tv series that you could join and provide meaningful contributions to. Lucie

Hello Everyone . Here's a question/suggestion...Build a mod so I can play my 8-9 year old vhs tapes(rec in "EP" )in a vhs player that I just bought which only has sp and lp playback.Maybe a dimmer switch to reduce power to the device?

misterbrot over 11 years ago

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kidiccurus over 11 years ago in reply to misterbrot +2

If you are patient enough then people do sometime give away their old vhs players for free on sites like freecycle. If not a good search of local charity shops may come up with something. I like vhs as…
clem57 over 11 years ago +1

EP/SLP is short for extended play. Extended play is similar to LP, but actually provides you even more recording time. EP was primarily used to document long, continuous events without the need to change…

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0 misterbrot over 11 years ago

Again putting it diffent words......the difernt sppeds is how fast the play back is right? so I ask again could you use in some way a dimmer switch to varry the speed thus slowing down tape making it possable to watch ep play in sp mode
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0 misterbrot over 11 years ago

Again putting it diffent words......the difernt sppeds is how fast the play back is right? so I ask again could you use in some way a dimmer switch to varry the speed thus slowing down tape making it possable to watch ep play in sp mode
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