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I’m breakin a sweat, here!
Shoot coming up this week. Cleaned heads this morning. Loaded a tape. Screen said: “auto off, T_lock”. ejeceted the tape and it was hanging out of the cassette. Cleaned again [ using chamois swabs and 99% alcohol, btw ]. Inserted another tape. Screen says: “auto off, S_lock”. Book says it’s takeup and supply locks but doesn’t say how to remedy it. It’s a DVX 100B. Pleading for someone out there with an answer, other than the: “pack it up and kiss it, and your wallet, goodbye” answer…
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Don’t know what I could have: bent, spindled or mutilated while cleaning but promise to eat all my spinach if anyone has an answer. Also hit the reset button. Ran a few tests by recording further in on the tape and it looked fine but beginning of tape is trashed. Will run another tape from the beginning, but those DVM83 tapes are getting costly; this is the second one…
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After two tapes trashed it seems to be working well… Thanks for your thoughts and thoughts…
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don’t use 83 minute tapes… 63 minutes tapes are recommended.
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Any time you clean heads with a fluid, allow the fluid to dissipate before loading a tape. And, by the way, when mini dv tapes first emerged, they were $28 for a 60 minute cassette. You should always buy the very best tape. Cheap tape will cause failures. It’s called “pay me now or pay me later”.
During BetaCam’s popular years, we paid a dollar a minute on the average. A five minute tape was aroung $18, a 90 minute was around $75.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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Boy, unless you’re exhibiting symptoms, I’m not sure I’d be manually cleaning the transport/heads in a miniDV piece of gear. That transport is SOOOO small you run the risk of damage.
Sounds like you’re OK, but as has been stated, run the “master” series tapes from Panasonic and nothing else.
Good luck,
Tim Scarpino
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I really appreciate your quick responses. Yes, I do use, and have always, the Panasonic master series tapes. The last batch I bought were 83 minutes as I was shooting a lengthy performance of the Nutcracker ballet. Parents can be very troublesome if you don’t get little Suzie doing her special dance…
So, any other thoughts on why the takeup and supply locks would have been acting up? Other than me doing my own house cleaning, of course. Think I may have bent something?
I’ve cleaned many a tape head over the years and try to be extra careful on this guy, especially since the gap is so tiny. I had the picture from Barry Greene at my side whilst probing and swabbing.
I remember well buying beta and quad tapes, among others so, you’re right, 5 or 6 bucks is really a bargain. But, then again, I’m cheap!
Thanks again!
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I’d say pack it up and kiss it goodbye to a service center. Hopefully it’s under warranty…
Noah
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Thanks Noah, and, no, it is no longer under warranty…
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