Sony DCR-TRV285E Digital-8 Digital Camcorder "safe stuck open position" Questions

...stuck inside Sony VX2000 My husband is an eletronic engineer, he has my Sony VX2000 torn apart to try to get a mini DV tape out of the cassette drive but there literally are no screws or devices to ...

...stuck in the camcorder. When I open it up it starts to eject it, but then it stops because the cassette is open and the tape is wrapped around the reader. The reader won't go down so the cassette can ...