Your part arrived today, and despite feeling like sludge from a cold/flu, I proceeded to tear in to my player and see what I was getting myself in to.
It was tedious rather than difficult. Not looking at the player for two days I found the easiest way of removing the laser assembly by removing the track plate on one side, then popping off the guide bar, and unplugging the laser assembly. Things were so badly broken that I had to retrieve the gears from the player. Luckily, having worked with mechanical stuff before, it took me all of two seconds to figure out which gear went where. Piece of cake actually!
So, new part on, old part off. Reassembled the player and it works again!
I took a bunch of pictures and some crappy video. The video I did in segments and am going to try to edit together. The pictures I need to go through and somehow organize, as some of them were taken during reassemby with the intent for them to be disassembly. Hey, I'm sick, the brain isn't fully working anymore. But what is working is my 505. Thanks again!
I am uploading a picture of the broken part with the new part. Video and more pics to come later.
pretty cool, glad you got it working. you may want to save that broken piece, get a thin drill bit and make a hole inside that peg to put metal or wood and epoxy to have a spare part for the future.
i've done that in the past when fixing some older toys that you can't get parts for.
Two steps ahead of ya. Got the old part in a bag, got a friend who does 3d printing. He's gonna see if he can recreate it for me. But, yeah, drill a tiny hole, fill with epoxy, done!
I'm trying to do the video, but the android editor won't export anything over five minutes apparently.
A time or two. plastic or wood is good for support if you're not injecting it in to the channel. I've had various unobtainable parts break. I used to do what you mentioned, but an ex of mine was a diabetic, she came up with the needle idea. I also considered gluing it back on, making a moulld and seeing how it comes out. Ivendone that for some pinball parts.
But it was good to see it working again, and in time for the snow this weekend.
Sorry to bump this dead thread but I have a CLD-D505 with the exact same symptoms. Does anyone happen to have a part number for the gear holder or one that I can purchase? Thanks.
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plastic or wood is good for support if you're not injecting it in to the channel. I've had various unobtainable parts break. I used to do what you mentioned, but an ex of mine was a diabetic, she came up with the needle idea. I also considered gluing it back on, making a moulld and seeing how it comes out. Ivendone that for some pinball parts. 
