What the Hell is wrong with the VCR?

[youthere]

It plays for all of about 3 minutes and then shuts off. WTF?

[yewberry]

1. Sorry

I hid my sandwich in it yesterday.

The tomato slices were a little juicy, and it might need time to dry out.

[youthere]

2. Damn you Tofunut!!

[Floogeldy]

3. Prolly the tape.

Bad tape.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

4. It could be a bad CD/DVD disk too.

:popcorn: :hide: :sarcasm:

[youthere]

5. Nope we've changed tapes three times...

it's doing it with all of them.

[B Calm]

6. Probably needs a little WD40 sprayed inside.. Unplug first..

[youthere]

8. Won't that ruin it?

[B Calm]

10. Try dropping it on the floor a few times first, if that don't work then

try the WD40..

[billyskank]

7. You need to swear at it more.

That's my remedy for all things technical. First, you swear at it. Then, you swear at it again, this time employing more profanity. If that doesn't fix it, then you need to bring out the heavy duty expletives that you have saved for special occasions. Finally, if it still doesn't work, you kick it.

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

9. It's cursed, as mine was.

I had a really good JVC VCR for about ten years, then a few years ago it started acting weird. It ate my tapes (I swear the thing vibrated as it did it), and eventually it just stopped.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. If it's old, it may simply be dying

I had one about 15 years old that made funny noises for a while and then started eating tapes. When it refused to eject a certain tape, I asked the Lounge for advice, and they suggested taking the VCR apart and getting the tape out that way. (It's really not hard to do.) Unfortunately, the inside of the VCR was in such bad shape that I could get the tape out only by taking the whole mechanism apart. So I got one severely mangled tape out and had pieces of the VCR all over the table.

At that point, I just decided to take the old one to the county electronics recycling station and buy a new one for $40.

[WCGreen]

12. THE TERMINATOR HAS TAKEN IT OVER....

YO MUST BUY A DVD PLAYER OR PERISH

[Orsino]

13. It's received its orders to tell you...

...to buy a DVD player. Upgrade, Citizen. Twelve hundred consumption units per year are mandatory.

[youthere]

14. LOL..

We have a DVD..But we also have about 3 gazillion VHS tapes (Disney mostly) that the kids have collected and I can't afford to go out and replace every one of them.

[havocmom]

15. Check the buttons.

Had a client whose 4 year old granddaughter fed the entire contents of her 'button jar' to the VCR. Once they got all the buttons out, it worked fine again.

[youthere]

16. That's hilarious!

My son used to feed the vcr graham crackers.

[steely]

17. some actually had/have a humidity sensor....

and would prevent running which could cause tape damage.

make sure it's got some air flow around it (nothing on top / not behind a closed tv stand door / and not dusty).

if this is the case, it should start to run after a few minutes of breathing.