Does Mitsubishi HS-U82 have quality transport?
 

I bot mine new because it had 2/3rds speed slo-mo having piezo mounted heads in the drum. (I also have a NIB drum for it)

It was hyper expensive so thinking it may have had a good transport.
ALSO, I don't know if it makes a difference that most of my tapes were made on this machine.

I ask because probably 10 years ago, it simply became dead.
While I do want to fix it, knowing it would be a desirable deck would make me get around to fixing it sooner.

I also have the JVC 40k D-VHS deck which might be better for capture, however it was starting to malfunction in that it wasn't recognizing the table of contents on digital tapes (at least that's what I remember.)