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From: chris@procyon.la.locus.com (Chris Davis)
Newsgroups: rec.audio,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: HELP!! CD player gone wild
Summary: consumer electronics repair strategy works!
Message-ID: <2845@oolong.la.locus.com>
Date: 9 Feb 90 08:48:14 GMT
References: <1990Feb9.012038.13369@ug.cs.dal.ca>
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In article <1990Feb9.012038.13369@ug.cs.dal.ca> gilgan@ug.cs.dal.ca (S.O.D.) writes:
>I have a Mission CD player. I bought it second hand. Recently (as of 
>Christmas) after recieving a couple CD's, the stupid thing started freaking
>out. It would be playing along merrily and then suddenly "rest".(it would stop
>playing and then pretend there was no CD in it) NOW it won't even play a CD!!
>When I load a cd in it looks at it and then pretneds nothing is there..
>I have been told that the laser needs re-allignment. First question: is that
>true??

	Tom, my Yamaha CDX2 CD player started doing exactly the same thing
	last week.  I took the cover off and blew all the dust out with a
	Radio Shaft [tm] dust remover spray, but that didn't fix it.  Then
	I tried turning the little disk that the CD disk sits on by hand,
	and now it recognizes disks.  Each time it starts pretending that
	there's no disk in there, I can remove the disk and reach a finger
	through the open door and turn that little drive disk, and it fixes
	the problem for a while.

	I can live with that inconvenience for now.  Unfortunately, the
	player also now likes to skip a lot and on occasion it starts to
	really chew up the sound although it continues to play (this is
	really hard to describe in writing so chewing up will have to do).
	I suspect contamination in the optics is the cause.  Although it is
	an unscientific method, I have found that severe physical shock is
	often the best way to repair consumer electronics.  Out of respect
	for the delicate CD mechanism, I just tried shaking the player at
	first, but that didn't have any effect.  So I dropped it about 4'
	onto the carpet.  It seems to play just fine now.  Hope this helps.
>
>thanks
>Tom
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