Hello, I think my loading motor is bad in my Toshiba w-512 VCR. I put a tape in but it doesn't fully load and enter the ready state to play. The part I believe is bad is at the right rear inside and has an elongated gear protruding out of the little silver cylinder. All I get is a constant clicking sound but the tape never gets "deployed" around the large silver cylinder inside. Am I on the right track? where can I get a replacement? the numbers on the cylinder are MDH2B and 62YK1X05A. Thanks, Mike

Needs pro repair

Check this link it has some solutions that you can try in removing the tape inside the VCR http://www.fixer.com/no-eject.html

Hope that helps...........

look to see if tape will fully load and if FF or REWIND work, if not a transport problem, drive mechanism not moving the tape, unit will sense this and shut unit off----even a problem in the loading mechanism for the VHS tape not loading the tape all the way will do the same thing.

there are a number of things that can cause this.
If there's something as simple as a penny underneath the tape loading area (anywhere the tape sits when fully loaded) the sensor that tells the vcr that the tape is fully down won't register, and the unit will spit the tape back out.
there is an optical sensor that goes into a hole that you can see on the bottom of any tape, and if either the emitter (the light bulb) or the detector (which detects the light from the emitter) isn't functional, it'll think the mechanism loaded without a tape in it, and will spit it out.
If the loading mechanism for any other reason doesn't go all the way down, if the unit is unable to spin the heads or if the mechanism that winds the tape around the head can't move, it'll spit out the tape.
This by the way is a free answer, if you paid for an answer and didn't get one, ask for a refund, we do have a refund policy.
if you paid for a year or something like that, I don't know how that works, but I hope I have helped you.
If you are still stuck after checking all the things I mentioned, please post a reply to this post and I will try to assist you further.

I think by your description that you have a bad loading basket, it might be repairable but don't be surprised if they suggest a new one (if it is available)

There are only 2 motors on the VCR sections.1 motor for the rewind backward and speed foward.1 motor for take in the VHS tape and eject the tape.The play button also used the same rewind backward and speed forward motor to push the film foward to the VCR play head head drums to play the tape.

Take the cover off & have a look at the cassette carriage, it may have came out of alignment, ie it is taking the tape at an angle or there maybe a fault with the carriage motor switch. when you put the tape in so far the carraige activates a switch which starts the loading motor to draw the tape in. It could be there is no supply voltage to this switch or the loading motor might be faulty, this is why the VCR says there is no tape as the tape has not been able to load into the machine. A repair centre should be able to fix this fault quite easily.

Hello. This kind of sounds like the loading deck is a few teeth out of time. In other words the tape is not fully dropping down. When the drives start pulling at it the first few minutes of playing it probably seats down a little further and a little further until it finally bottoms out and seats correctly. This I have seen before. The timing issue can result from pushing a tape in a little hard at times instead of letting the loader pull it in itself after it makes its first switch. At some point the loading deck went out a tooth or two and has remained that way ever since. Putting one of these loading decks back in "time" provided there is not any damage to the loading gears should be handled by someone experienced with this. If your familiar with gearing it would simply be a matter of marking the gears when you "trick it" to load a tape. The metal tape retainer should hit bottom when it drops in. When you start your re-timing process you only go one tooth at a time until you finally get it to hit bottom. You should not go a tooth more because you may cause damage to the main gear or one of the others. Good-luck and hope this helps.

Hello tcsabug,

 

First locate the load and unload motor, it is the one with the rubber drive band. release the drive band and rotate the gear to raise and pull the carriage back into position.

This should remove your cassette, and put the carriage back into position.

 

I hope this helps,

Thank You,

Shuttle83

 

What you state cannot be logical. If picture is freezing, then the VCR is at fault. But you state that the VCR works fine when played, and viewed on another TV. So, the only explanation I can think of is that there is some thing faulty with your VCR. Probably, when you play a tape, the picture freezes. This could be 'cos the Capstan motor of the VCR freezes. Common problem with aged VCRs. Just requires a spot of grease, and service. IT CANNOT BE THE TV AT FAULT!!!!