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Sure, I'll give you $45 for the pack and batteries.  I hope the GE batteries
work in my Radio Shack charger...
				Steve

  Steve beat me to it.  If for some reason he decides he doesn't want the
  pack and batteries, let me know and I'll take them off your hands.

					-- Roger

Too late....

For the disappointed, Manufacturers Marketplace has had the battery pack
for a reasonable price ($39, I believe).  I suggest buying it soon, as when
the D7 hits the street, the demand for the D5 case will diminish.
					Steve

re.1
        The GE batteries ARE compatible with the Radio Shack chargers 
        that are for charging NiCads with one exception. There is a new 
        this year charger and batteries that a rated as high capacity 
        units. This charger will destroy! ordinary NiCads, possibly even 
        violently!!
        

re the D7

        It HAS hit the streets around here (Emass) at You Do It in 
        Needham for just under $300. This unit INCLUDES a NiCad pack!
        
        /s/     Bob

I scrounged up an 8v gel cell pack (4 D sized cells), and made my own pack. It
has a connector in the wire that matches those I use for my RC car, so I can use
any of those packs (7.2v 6 cell nicad) or the gel cell for the D5. Those trashy
GE cells are rated at less than 1 Ah, maybe as little as .5 Ah. If you smash one
open, they are about half hollow, with a penlight cell inside them. My nicad
packs are between 1.2 and 1.5 Ah, and the gel cell comes in at a whopping 2.5
Ah. Thus it will run the D-5 three times longer than what you get with the GE
nicads. Gel cells also don't have many of the nicad problems such as memory and
cell reversal. It may not look quite as pretty as what you buy from Sony, but
FREE is not too bad a deal (whoops, it wasn't quite free, I did have to buy the
power connector plug for $.50) 

Note that the D5 case will also accept a Sony NP-11 nicad battery, which
is what they use for Betamovies (BMC-220 and earlier).  Not cheap, but probably
lasts longer than C-cells.
				Steve

You might also try the new Radio Shack hi capacity cells. 


        /s/     Bob

re .7

I see, the standard radio shaft sales pitch; "Now for 50% more you can get
what you should have got for what you already paid". No thanks. But then
there's one born every minute.

Aerospace grade nicads ae available for RC use from an outfit called SR
Batteries. I don't have their address here, but thay advertise im Model Avaition
all the time. They go for $5-10 per cell, depending on the cell size, and have
at least 50% more capacity than "good" nicads; who knows how much more than the
GE or RS trash. 

The reason that the Radio Shack Hi capacity cells can say they are hi 
capacity is that they are full size cells!  If you take apart either a 
standard C or D size nicad, you will actually find a cell called a sub-C 
inside (ever wonder why the bigge D had the same ratings as the C??). 
The Radio Shack Hi capacity cels are full size cells.

        /s/     Bob

    Do any of the Sony D5 owners out there purchased a service manaul
    for the unit?  My servo is acting up and I don't want to take it
    in for service (out of warantee.)  If anyone has one kicking around,
    could you contact me?  Thanks
    
    Kenney
    DTN 381-2292

    As long as we are talking about problems - my D5 started to act
    up recently.   After I stopped playing a CD, the laser/lens assembly
    apparently wedged itself to the outer edge of the player (I believe
    it normally resets towards the hub).   After several minutes of
    starting, stopping, etc. it finally freed itself.  Two CD's later
    and the same condition - this time I can't get it to work.
    
    Any suggestions as to why this might be happening?  I'd consider
    taking it apart, but that doesn't look trivial..
    
    - dave

    I just had a problem with mine too...the silver switches stuck.
    After a bit of fooling around, I got the play-pause switch and the
    halt switch to work, but the arrow buttons were in a weird state.
    Down would work if you held it half way in.  Up would go down if
    you held it half way in, an up if you pushed just a bit harder.
    
    Luckily, good old Bradlees replaced it, no questions asked.  (I
    am amazed...surely it is not the force of my personality! :-))
    
    Burns
    

    For what it's worth...
    
    Two weeks ago I got a battery case for my D-5 from Garino's,
    a Sony dealer in Framingham.  They had several in stock, and
    the clerk told me they were still readily available.

    The packaging for the case did not specifically mention the
    D-5.  Perhaps it's still available because Sony makes a
    newer CD player that fits it -- I don't know.
    
    Pat Hardy
    

    
    I had a D5 with battery case that died on me some time back.  If
    there is really someone out there that would like just a battery
    case (and perhaps a D5 that was used as a hockey puck), make me
    an offer.  How about $25.

    I've had my D5 since their early days, and it too acts up.  Often,
    and randomly, it won't "sync" on a disc - press the start button,
    the laser searches for the start of the disc (it moves back and
    forth several times looking), doesn't find it, and then gives up.
    Press the start button again, and the same thing may happen, or
    it may play just fine.  SONY service did nothing to fix it (and
    took a month for the effort).
    
    Also, in the last 6 months or so, the little bugger has been skipping
    on discs (again randomly - no apparent pattern to the problem or
    the discs) that play fine on other machines (including the grandaddy
    of them all, the CDP-101).
    
    SONY's service runs $60/hour if memory serves me.  Opening the D5
    is not hard (though the case screws are the tiniest I've ever seen),
    but once you get it open - what then?  All SMD and nary an adjustment
    in sight.  Any ideas?  Thanks in advance - Jon