jimbanville1 wrote:
tasuke wrote:
my "first" LD player was a CLD-1080 that wouldn't spin a disc.
after about 10-odd secs. of power-up, the lens barrel in the pickup would begin audibly and visibly vibrating,
and a definite, fishy foul odor began to emanate from somewhere in the chassis.
this was WAY back, -must have been around 2000/2001- so i didn't know the first thing about what might have been going on,
let alone how to possibly even begin to approach the problem...
My guess is that as the motor is spinning, the stench from the old leaking caps inside the motor gets stirred up and blown out the openings in the motor housing. The spinning of the laserdisc contributes to blow the smell out of the machine.
that 1080 is LONG GONE... that said, it wouldn't even begin to attempt to spin a disc, not even once.
even so, that odor rapidly came along with a vengeance, every single time i fired it up to clumsily attempt to tinker...