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- From: mycal@netronix.com (Mycal Johnson)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: broken CD player fixable?
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <713639464snx@netronix.com>
- References: <713577764.7558.0@helios.mercury.acs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 17:11:04 GMT
- Organization: Netronix, Inc.
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- In article <713577764.7558.0@helios.mercury.acs.cmu.edu> kz08+@andrew.cmu.edu writes:
- >
- > I have a TEAC CD player (component, not portable) that has this problem:
- > you have to push twice on the "close" or "play" button in order for the
- > door to shut; after it closes there is a brief whir (the CD does not
- > spin--I've checked) and then the player spits the CD out again.
- >
- > My question: does this sound like a mechanical or a logic problem? Seems
- > to me something is wrong with the logic circuitry--it is confused and
- > doesn't realize that there is a disk in the player when in fact there is.
- > If the problem is mechanical, there is some chance that I might be able
- > to fix the player, but if the problem is any more sophisticated, I might
- > as well just throw the player out and buy another one.
- >
- > Thanks for any info you can give.
- >
- > Ken
-
- I had what sounds like the same problem in my Sony CD about a year ago.
- The mechanism was binding for lack of lubercation. So I added some teflon
- spray and streched the spring a bit ( for more pull ) and every thing
- has been working great since.
-
- hope that helps
-
- mycal
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