a.palfreyman
pfm Member
Small block of wood with a piece of wet-n-dry superglued to one flat face.
Small block of wood with a piece of wet-n-dry superglued to one flat face.
It's even simpler than I tought, there's only one screw (green). And just desolder motors (red), then board pops out.
Re genuine Sony mechs don't be that naive, they don't produce them for at least 15 years, and if there's some new old stock prices will be from 30 and upwards. For 7 you can get chinese knockoff laser assemblies, 10 pieces so you can select one from them which works somewhat acceptable.
I now know of 5 213 mechs from same AliExpress seller that all worked (4 for me, one for James on here), no issues. Let me know if you’d like the link to add: at £11 though, not 7
Nah I don't play lottery anymore, even so with ali )))
do have a listen: kicks sigor ros roundly into touch).
Honestly I like only their first album which is great, afterwards they became too famous, U2-likeish if you know what I mean.
Yes I know what you mean. Tbh I can't even do 1 album of sigor ros. This mum album is a favourite of all my cd's, & it's audio quality is great too: the tinkly winkly highs especially (I actually have a soft spot for 'heyday' U2!).
Their popularity is as much of a mystery to me, as radiohead's.
It's all that salt air whilst spinning your Icelandic sirens at sea, Capt.Omg. 2 cd's played without skipping! Still I'm not counting all my chickens just yet. Don't tempt fate.
I wonder how this crack actually happened though. I can only see this placcy rail as like a 'light support' rail, the main metal rail supporting the vast majority of the block, so I can't envisage any great strain on this placcy rail at all.
Any ideas? If ansis suggested it, then it's obviously a facet that affects mechanisms however frequently. But what could cause such a crack I wonder-? Some sort of friction 'jam' perhaps? (Which might mean a super dry rail as cuase for this if so). I can't think of anything logical.
Capt
It's all that salt air whilst spinning your Icelandic sirens at sea, Capt.
Glad to hear that you are hearing them again, though.
I've always detected a whirr from my original Planet since new, however, I put this down to a combination of the exposed CD clamp/lid, and the mech not necessarily being as isolated from the rigid player chassis as some. IOW, isolation from external vibration is a combination of the CD player feet below and the 4 rubber washers that the mech mounting screws interface with. I don't sit near mine, so I've not found operation noise to be intrusive. Were I using it in the near field, I might think differently.Haha. Well I do like a screechy siren, another one on now Kate Bush/ aeriel.
Now, this has a bad scratch end of cd1.. which is where the skipping happened. The 2nd cd's just played fine, no skips; & it's a rarity in my collection: both cd's scratched/ Discs only G+ at best. A demanding test.
So.. cdp could still be fixed despite this hiccup.
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I do hear some prominent motor noise ( there before my repair) not enough to intrude listening really, but not right.. & would do if cd on low volume. Anything you could think I could try?
If it is regularly playing through tracks 3 and 4 or there-abouts (where you were getting your original bad skipping) it isn't that. I bet if you'd timed it before repair, it would probably have been (say) 18 mins +/- a few seconds from the start of the CD every time. I have some CDs with circular scratches that won't play, drives the mechanism nuts! And my old Philips CD160 motor can be heard in very quiet passages from 7ft away...
Remember, different density’s of CDs exist depending on how long they are - so 20 mins in on a 60 minute album does not mean you will hit the bump at 20 mins in on a 90 minute album. I assume anyhow, normally data appears to go most of the way to the inside of the disc. The common 213 chassis crack will skip at the same time on each individual disc play…if it‘s going too…you also have the data buffer and the sled motor is not always moving, so this issue leads to pretty random skipping in my experience.