I Recently purchased yet another Service Manual from Owner-Manuals.com, this time for a Sony EVS700ES/UB Videocassette Recorder. The Manual was available for upload within two hours and is an Extremely Good copy, as some of this I was able to enlarge to get even better detail.
Once Again, Very happy with the result!
A good and useful manual. With these, We was abled to isolate and pin point the component that was causing the problem. The total time spent in troubleshooting is very much reduced.
Text excerpt from page 4 (click to view)
SECTION 1 SERVICING NOTE
HOW TO OPEN THE DISC TRAY WHEN POWER SWITCH TURNS OFF
Insert a tapering driver into the aperture of the unit bottom, and turn in the direction of arrow (to OUT direction).
* To close the disc tray, turn driver in the reverse direction (to IN direction).