My Toshiba DVR620KU VCR/DVD unit chews tapes

I bought my DVR620KU VCR/DVD combo unit some time last year as a refurbished unit.  As such it either had no warranty or a very short term warranty.  And since I bought it as a refurbished unit, that meant that it didn't qualify for any of BestBuy's Geek Squad service plans, so they won't touch it.  Anyway for the past month or so, maybe longer, the VCR side has been chewing tapes.  Sometimes, it won't rewind and intead will switch off. When I turn it back on, it ejects the tape.  And tapes recorded on the VCR side are horrible.  And sometimes, the machine will make a squealing sound when I fast forward.  And when it does rewind, I hear a clicking sound.  And it's left one edge of my latest tape all crinkled.  Have other people had this problem? Is it a problem that can be fixed and does it cost a lot to fix it? The DVD side works just fine.

Right now. I'm just using the DVD side to record stuff I want to keep permanently since my stepfather stockpiles DVD+R disks that can only be recorded onto once. I was recording my cartoons onto tape since I watch those and rewind the tape to reuse. But now that the VCR chews tapes, I have those on the Verizon Fios DVR.  The Toshiba unti itself is still connected to the converter box that was already connected to the TV before we got Fios in the house. I still record operas that transmit over the converter box onto DVD.

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