Both roller guides are seating properly but – wait – guess what? A missing tilted guide post!
Two dropped parts in one JVC at the same time! Fabulous. Sure enough, the post is sitting quietly on the workbench minding its own business not caring one wit for being absent from work. Break out the Epoxy once again. At least this post stays put once pressed into place (unlike the Mitsubishis that have the same problem but the cavity in which the posts are inserted are so closely machined that they trap air and the posts keep wanting to pop back out.) Try #3: Ouch! The tape is grabbed on the wrong side of the roller guide. After carefully extracting the cassette, it is obvious that the roller guides are not fully retracting into the cassette. Thus, when the cassette drops, sometimes the tape is in front of the one of the posts. How can that be? In addition, sometimes the tape would not load, whirring motors, and it would give up and shut down. The repairs look fine – brass post snug against the shoulder and nothing to catch on anyhow. What about the other one. Now some history of thi
