my first CLD-3030, back in '07 came from the BAY with remote, manual and 5 discs, and was said to have no more than 30hrs. usage.
it showed up, via FEDEX not long before X-Mas, and when powered up proved unresponsive,
with the CD-CDV-LD portion of the FL display there stuck perpetually flashing. tray would not expel, not a command worked,
from nether the front panel or remote.
i got to popping the top, and eventually got to fiddling with the laser-pickup's traverse mechanism.
i came to find that the laser assy. has a nylon T-arm that mates with a nylon retainer pawl
that rides on the screw-shaft responsible for the pickup's traverse movement,
and that two-part nylon linkage had jarred completely loose in shipping.
so, i snapped it back together, and the whole works automatically reset itself to nominal DISC-UNLOAD rest position,
and the player instantly came back to normal operating condition.
it never would track discs as well as i had always thought it should, often getting stuck in read-loops at difficult areas
of the occasional disc, and the laser itself often somehow getting literally stuck at the extreme outer end of it's travel,
so i assumed that that shipping issue caused alignment problems, most likely beyond my wherewithal to self-service,
and came across a little-used CLD-1030 (that managed to survive shipment flawless) and swapped out it's very sound and healthy transport assy.
resulting in a 3030 that looks almost new, and operates at least as good as the day i came off the factory line...
