Square Rubber Belt Kits for SONY 5-7-9000 VO and VP series U-matic Recorders NEW

Description

Sony U-Matic 3/4" Model 5000, 7000, 9000 Series Square Drive Repair Belt Kits
Each Kit includes one each of the three Square Drive Belts, and one Tire to rebuild one machine.
Detailed printed installation instructions come with each kit, and a link to online color installation photos.
Volume discounts available or Save a few bucks by buying more kits at the same time.
NEW factory stock, not ancient Sony factory parts that have not been made for 20 years.
These are fresh mandrel cut belts produced from our own tooling in Taipei.
We have been selling these for 15 years and have never gotten a return based on quality.
Please be certain that you are ordering for a machine that is listed below.
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VO-5000, VO-5600, VO-5630, VO-5800, VO-5850, VP-5000, VP-5020, VP-5030, VP-5040
And other models starting with VO-5_ _ _? or VP-5_ _ _?
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VO-7000, VO-7020, VO-7030, VO-7040, VO-7600, VP-7000, VP-7020, VP-7030, VP-7040
And other models starting with VO-7_ _ _? or VP-7_ _ _?
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VO-9000, VO-9600, VO-9630, VO-9800, VO-9850, VP-9000, VP-9020, VP-9030, VP-9040
And other models starting with VO-9_ _ _? or VP-9_ _ _?
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All kits include these Sony part numbers;
3-653-387-00 Smallest - Cassette Elevator belt
3-672-737-01 Medium - Tape Transport / Load Ring belt
3-668-785-00 Largest - Forward / Rewind belt
Tire, for cassette Fwd /Rewind pulley.
Sony Belt Kits for the professional 3/4" U-Matic Tape Player/Recorder/Editing machines.
All kits include fresh newly manufactured square rubber belts which are identical to the belts that were supplied with Sony machines. Sony designed the drive pulleys to accept square belts which have a much greater surface contact area than round belts would have. Using O-rings as belts can damage your equipment. O-rings are made of a 90 durometer rubber which is hard. Using O-rings as belts requires selecting a smaller diameter belt to get enough friction to turn the pulleys. This in turn causes more loading and heavy wear on the pully bearings and uneven tracking.
Sony has not manufactured replacement belts for the U-matic series for many years. As a result, any belts found in Original Sony packaging are likely very old and will probably not last long, if at all. Our belt kits are produced NEW from fresh mandrel cut stock and these parts are priced lower than the per belt that other sources charge for inferior products. Buy parts that are virtually identical to the Original Sony specifications. We guarantee satisfaction and every kit comes with instructions and a link to installation directions and color photographs.
If you have a bunch of old 3/4" U-Matic tapes that need to be transferred to another format, then you need a reliable machine to accomplish that. A lot of time has passed and these tapes loose quality every day..
The absolute best method is to obtain a computer board with video and audio IN ports and play the tapes into your computer. Then you save the video footage in digital form which you can edit till your hearts content with no further signal loss or degradation. If your 3/4" machine provides good Video / Audio output signals, consider yourself blessed. Sony has had a nightmare of a problem with these older machines becoming un-useable as they get older. No-one is making 3/4" tape machines anymore. The sooner you plan to get the video footage onto a modern storage format, the easier it will be to find suitable equipment.
Many of the service problems that we see on these 25+ years old decks are related to the drive belts. Rubber belts stretch, get hard and brittle and eventually break, or no longer provide proper tension to rotate the pulleys.
There are three square rubber belts on these models, one on the cartridge loading transport, one on the tape to head positioning transport and a third on the tape wind/rewind mechanism. If the cartridge loading mechanism does not move smoothly you probably need the first. If the tape does not wrap itself around the head, you probably need the second. And if the tape cartridge does not turn or turns sluggishly, you probably need the third belt. A loose cartridge drive belt will cause tracking errors and eventually shut down the editing. Tape damage could result from improper loading!
Another problem can come from a split or missing transport idler tire on the tape cartridge drive. This tire is easily replaced by stretching a new one over the hub.
Don't take chances. Put fresh belts in your equipment before attempting to load tapes, and always use unimportant tape when testing. Once a tape get creased, it is almost impossible to remove that damage.
BELTS: These kits contain three or four square drive rubber belts/tires needed to replace all of the drive parts in any 5000, 7000, or 9000 series machine. Complete service instructions with photos depicting how to replace each belt properly are included. If you are handy with simple hand tools, you can replace these parts yourself. No special equipment is necessary. Save hundreds of dollars in service fees while making your machine load and track smoothly.