Recently bought a Philips CDV185 (the CD-Video 'single' player) from ebay.

Sometimes it works, but a lot of the time, when a disc is inserted (CDV or CD), it doesn't read the TOC and thus doesn't play anything.

Pressing play causes the motor that pulls in the drawer to whirr briefly, the laser carriage to move a little and emit a couple of clicks - but the disc doesn't spin at all.

I've tried cleaning the lens and greasing the 'slides' but to no effect.

Any ideas? If it's a failing laser then I guess there's nothing to be done (other than maybe increasing the power for a 'last hurrah' before failure!), but if there's anything else I can check...

Very cool piece of hardware.

I would check for a belt and replace it.

Hi, no belts sadly - well the only one in it drives the drawer, and that's fine!