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CD Drive repair?

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First post, by pewpewpew

Posted on 2015-10-25, 18:07

pewpewpew Offline

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Now that we're getting past the point where these are dropping off trees, I'm becoming reluctant to bin the failed units. Perhaps we could have a thread of congealed VOGONS repair wisdom?

I'm afraid I stop at the obvious: Check cables. Check pins. Open & clean out the guck. Eyeball any elcos along the way, and also the switch solder pads for cracks.

Are there other general tasks one can do, before it becomes a model-specific search through the repairfaq & ilk?

(Actually, the repairfaq is dated but full of nicely organized advice, so let's link it now.
http://www.repairfaq.org/REPAIR/F_cdfaq.html

Reply 1 of 1, by bjt

Posted on 2015-10-26, 10:57

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It really depends on what's failed. If plastic gears in the mech have stripped themselves or the laser is burnt out/lens is damaged there's not much you can do without a donor unit. I did fix a NEC drive once where the arm that holds the lens carriage to the rails snapped off. Just superglued it back on and it worked OK after that.

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