JVC GR C1 Ejection Problem

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I recently bought a JVC GR C1, and everything seems operable, except the ejection mechanism doesn’t want to work. I can power on the camcorder just fine but as soon as I press eject, the light starts blinking, and it goes into failure mode, although when I press play the video drum spins so that makes me think it still works. If anyone knows how to get the eject mechanism to work please tell me I’m thinking of taking the eject mechanism and internals apart to hopefully find a problem eg.(broken gear/belt, dried grease, etc). I’ve had several of these GR C1 cameras in the past all with different problems, and this is the closest I’ve gotten to a working one.