This scanned manual is well done in that most all the pages except for one is straight and clear- the way I would do them. One page was upside down but that happens. For the money that is charged on this site you get a pretty good deal. Now with complex repairs, I still prefer to us paper manuals which I have to buy at stereomanuals but the one I got here was much less than the $45 he was charging but this is a larger than normal manual for three different units. I am a picky manual user because I have used original manuals from Sony and Teac.
Content A4 and A3 format pages. Exactly what I needed to restore my old receiver.
Text excerpt from page 24 (click to view)
VL-Z1S/X/E VL-Z1H/R
8-7. Method of taking out the cassette with the mechanism operating singly
(1) Apply 3 to 4V DC to the loading motor for slight unloading. (2) If the tape is slack, turn the rotor (mechanism backside) of the capstan motor by hand to take up the slack in the tape. (3) Repeat steps (1) and (2) above. When the pole base is completely unloaded, check that the tape is not slack. (4) Then apply 3 to 4V DC to the loading motor again. The cassette controller will move up. (5) Take out the cassette. Note) When applying 3 to 4V DC to the loading motor for unloading, do so as shown in Fig.1.
Direction of rotation of the rotor of the capstan motor (from mechanism backside) Loading motor