Some of the pictures in this manual are a bit irritating. I had to dissassemble the unit and some of the screws have different threads, which is not mentioned in this manual. Also some of the drawings of the boards look different than the actual boards.
After all, the manual was very useful. I was able to recalibrate the capstan drive and it is working fine again.
This manual is very good. 303 pages scanned in a very high resolution. My camera has bad, leaking capacitors which all of the V5000 models are suffering from these days.
There is a huge part list with all capacitors, transistors etc. in this manual which helped me a lot. Otherwise I would not have been able to buy replacement parts.
The dissassembly guide is very enormous and detailed. Unlike on the Panasonic MS1 manual I downloaded here it actually looks like the real parts look. And the screws are labeled correctly, so you shouldn't have any left after the repair. ;)
good scans, all is clear. all pages in order. recommended
Text excerpt from page 61 (click to view)
5. Remove three screws (56) from the hinge on tilt unit side then open the diplay at an angle of about 45 degrees and slide it sideways.
6. Remove the hinges and place the cases flat as shown below.
7. Hold two FPCs togother and roll them up as shown below.
8. Lift up the main board side, then tilt the case with the board and pass the rolled up FPCs through the hole of the case and separate the keyboard case.
