| Title: | You get surface noise in real life too |
| Notice: | Let's be conformist |
| Moderator: | GOVT02::BARKER |
| Created: | Thu Jul 28 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 550 |
| Total number of notes: | 3847 |
My Sony CD player has a sticky drawer. More often than not, when
I try to eject the drawer it whirrs away but fails to open the drawer
without 'encouragement' (a tap on the drawer or the top). First, is
this a common problem with Sony CD players (I think the model number's
CDP-105; it's about 3-4 years old anyway). Secondly, is there anything
that I can do to help it? I took the top off to see if there was
anything like lumps of dirt clogging things up, but I couldn't
see anything obvious.
Other than that, the player is working fine - I've had no problems
whatsoever.
If this is a fairly common problem, maybe someone knows if there's
something I can do about it myself? It was fine when the drawer
only stuck a few times, but now it's getting to be a bit of a pain...
I can't easily take it to a dealer to be fixed, as I'm in the USA
and I doubt a dealer would want to fix a system that runs on 240
volts (mine runs on juice from an external 100-to-230v step-up
transformer, as does my cassette deck and amp).
John
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| 162.1 | RUTILE::BISHOP | Mon Mar 26 1990 11:58 | 11 | ||
Well yours doesn't sound quite like what happened to me, but when
i bought a new AIWA cd after a couple of weeks the draw started
to stick. When the engineer came round, he took off the top (being
brand new i didn't want to invalidate my warrenty) and took off
the 'class 1 laser product' sticker. This rectified the problem,
and he went on to add that most makers stick 'these bl**dy stupid
stickers all over the bl**dy place' and 'wastes my bl**dy time' ...
need i go on, but it seems they alot of people must get the same
problem!
Oh buy the way, he was a UK professional. ;-)
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| 162.2 | try pencil lead | LARVAE::IVES_J | Siegmund, sieh auf mich! | Wed Mar 28 1990 14:59 | 7 |
I had a philips CD104 (a real Dreadnought). I found that the drawer
could be made to run more smoothly by using that good old lubricant,
graphite !
I rubbed a pencil on the underside teeth of the drawer and it seemed to
work.
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