Repair my 15 years old Fuji Hi8 camcorder

My antique Hi-8 camcorder is dead for a while and now I need to revive it to digitalized all my Hi8 collections. Video image output nothing but white horizontal jerky lines with audio nosies. 1 out of  2 times the tape cannot go into the slot correctly and camcorder refuse to play the tape. Though of some mechanical problem, like slipping belt. Head cleaning does not correct the problem.

Open up the case. No loose belt. Looking carefully how the tape failed to engage. Seems the camcorder has a protection mechanism that when the tape jammed the rotating drum Imay be due to dirty drum surface/ old sticky tape), it will eject the tape  automatically.

Took my few hours to learn that there are tracking screws for lead in and lead out tape. The incorrect lead in (reason???) will cause the drum slow down and the camcorder refuse to read the tape and eject the tape. After trial and error, bu adjusting the 3 tracking nuts in sequence, finally I can digitalized all my 15 years old tapes (which takes anther 7 days !)

IR Full HD 1080 Watch

This Spy watch performs as expected with this price. Video captured has size of 1920x1080, frame rate of "30" and data bit rate of 8Mbps. Performance is less than satisfactory but this is expected for this price.
 Yet it is fun to open it up and have a look of the design. Interestingly, there is a large 8Mb ram as buffer. MicroSD is changeble and is class4 . ATTO test of stock microSD card is very fast, indeed. The unsatifactory performance is likely caused bt the slow encoding chip  STK2365 , capturing in 15fps motion JPEG. I cannot find any information from alldatasheet. As far as I know , there is only 3 chip factories that is capable of making FullHD 30fps low cost encoding chip . Default setting will capture continuous video clips of each 20mins size 1.3GB .  If configuration is allowed to capture at 720p with 30 frames, then this is a very good gadget.
Performance in no light situation is good with help of IR, which gives some spotted reflection underneath the glass.