Sony SL-C7 Betamax - Save it or scrap it? PART 1

This one's a little bit different insofar as we're assessing a Sony SL-C7UB Betamax to see whether it's worth saving. It's previous owner tried the machine and while testing it went pop! There's quite a lot to seal it's fate and be scrapped but there's also a few things in it's favour to make it worth saving. Have a look and see what you think and let me know in the comments. If you know me though, I think you can guess what the answer to that will be! Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:40 Issues and disassembly 02:26 Looking over the inside of the C7 03:28 Clock battery leakage 05:36 Power supply removal and checks plus key capacitor replacements and switching transistors 19:36 Manually removing the cassette in the Sony C7 with the power off 23:31 Clock buttons - how many work? 24:00 The moldy cassette 25:25 Installing the replacement 4.7uF 350v power supply capacitors 26:21 Fuses 27:37 Checking the transistors in the power supply 31:43 Closer look at the back battery on the clock assembly 37:10 Examining the belts under the deck plus the PCBs 39:33 Rounding up #sony #betamax #mrbetabyte