Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!al
From: al@cs.strath.ac.uk (Alan Lorimer)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Homebrew audio equipment
Message-ID: <1181@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Date: 1 Aug 88 08:49:02 GMT
References: <1075@gethen.UUCP> <3727@okstate.UUCP> <472@nitrex.UUCP> <504@xroads.UUCP>
Reply-To: al@cs.strath.ac.uk
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Scotland.
Lines: 36

>I've owned a Sony D-T3 CD player for several months now, and I am fairly
>happy with its performance except for one major annoyance. If I set the
>player out uncovered (read on) the spinning of the disk is so load that I
>have to grab a pillow or jacket and cover it. I'm not very knowledgable in CD
>technology, but the only thing I can think of is an overly loud motor - if
>nothing is wrong with it. Is this just an "annoying feature"? or should I
>send it in (I've had it since January)? 

Most compact disc players I've come accross tend to be quite noisy. I
reckonned that part of this was due to the disk slipping on the
turntable, so I experimented a bit with Electrolube SCCH3 conformal
coating on the Turntable. The intention was to give better adhesion of
the disk to the turntable. It did in fact work rather well in terms of
noise reduction as indeed the player was *much* quieter. It did however
have the unfortunate side effect of glueing the CD's in to the extent
that the mechanism could no longer open the drawer. (This may be
acceptable if you have only one CD :-)).

I've subsequently cleaned the stuff off, as it doesn't dry sufficiently
to prevent this happening, but if I find a suitable rubbery aerosol I
intend to try again. Any suggestions anyone?

Alan.

P.S. The player in question was a Sanyo effort which has since gone down
with a dead processor. Thank's Sanyo.
-- 
____________________________________________________________________________
Alan G. Lorimer, Strathclyde University, 26 Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XH.
UUCP: ...!seismo!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!al    DARPA: al%cs.strath.ac.uk@ucl-cs
					   JANET: al@uk.ac.strath.cs
-- 
____________________________________________________________________________
Alan G. Lorimer, Strathclyde University, 26 Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XH.
UUCP: ...!seismo!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!al    DARPA: al%cs.strath.ac.uk@ucl-cs
					   JANET: al@uk.ac.strath.cs