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rick_dangerous
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Post subject: Anyone in the USA Still Repair/Refurb players? Posted: 28 Feb 2020, 16:58 |
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Joined: 26 Feb 2020, 21:43 Posts: 79 Location: United States Has thanked: 14 times Been thanked: 26 times
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I have a DVL-909 that skips when it auto-flips to side B. It's not a dealbreaker, i just have to hit stop and manually flip the disc. But i sure would like to get the unit serviced someday so that i can use that feature again. The second laser must be out of alignment or something.
I have two working other players, but it's crazy to think that people are just junking these sometimes rather than attempting to repair them. Coming from the retro gaming community, i know there are a lot of people working on old consoles, replacing the caps, parts, etc. So being a NEWB over here i thought i'd ask.
Thanks in advance!
_________________ Elite CLD-59, DVL-909, CLD-D701, CLD-S201, CLD-990, Yamaha Demodulator. 80's/90's Action flicks.
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gypsy
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Post subject: Re: Anyone in the USA Still Repair/Refurb players? Posted: 28 Feb 2020, 17:34 |
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Joined: 23 Jun 2017, 01:55 Posts: 1693 Location: United States Has thanked: 1127 times Been thanked: 346 times
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Hello, need LD repairBasically no. Kurtis Bahr is basically the only guy left and he is so backed up he isn't taking on new work. The biggest issues compared to video games seem to be the lack of general/public knowledge, replacement parts drying up (like Harlock says you for some you basically have to have duplicate units for parts and hope that part is there and working) and complexity of the work (LD players are much more intricate than just about any game console you could think of).
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rick_dangerous
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Post subject: Re: Anyone in the USA Still Repair/Refurb players? Posted: 28 Feb 2020, 20:34 |
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Joined: 26 Feb 2020, 21:43 Posts: 79 Location: United States Has thanked: 14 times Been thanked: 26 times
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ldfan wrote: Sounds like it could be the Side B Centering adjustment if it plays fine on Side A. I'm relatively handy. Is there any documentation on how to do a centering adjustment anywhere. I can tell it's something out of whack that needs adjustment, rather than broken. Thanks
_________________ Elite CLD-59, DVL-909, CLD-D701, CLD-S201, CLD-990, Yamaha Demodulator. 80's/90's Action flicks.
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cplusplus
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Post subject: Re: Anyone in the USA Still Repair/Refurb players? Posted: 28 Feb 2020, 21:10 |
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See page 66 of RRV2089 here: https://manuals.lddb.com/LD_Players/Pio ... L/DVL-919/ for the Side B centering adjustment point. Page 74 covers the actual adjustment. You'll need an oscilliscope to make it perfect, but you might can get by with a lot of patience and extremely small adjustments. Just keep in mind you can make things much worse very quickly without the proper equipment.
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rick_dangerous
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Post subject: Re: Anyone in the USA Still Repair/Refurb players? Posted: 28 Feb 2020, 21:33 |
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cplusplus wrote: See page 66 of RRV2089 here: https://manuals.lddb.com/LD_Players/Pio ... L/DVL-919/ for the Side B centering adjustment point. Page 74 covers the actual adjustment. You'll need an oscilliscope to make it perfect, but you might can get by with a lot of patience and extremely small adjustments. Just keep in mind you can make things much worse very quickly without the proper equipment. Thanks. Oscilliscope!? Well that got real fast Since this is my primary player, and it's still A-1 for side 1, may as well not touch it till i have more problems down the road. Going to save that manual/this thread as a reference though.
_________________ Elite CLD-59, DVL-909, CLD-D701, CLD-S201, CLD-990, Yamaha Demodulator. 80's/90's Action flicks.
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gypsy
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Post subject: Re: Anyone in the USA Still Repair/Refurb players? Posted: 28 Feb 2020, 22:10 |
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Joined: 23 Jun 2017, 01:55 Posts: 1693 Location: United States Has thanked: 1127 times Been thanked: 346 times
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cplusplus wrote: Yeah thats honestly the best idea. There is "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." and then "If it ain't broke enough, don't fix it." This is the approach I've taken. Most of my players have some quirks but the only one I want to fix is the LDS1 that clearly needs a recap.
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gypsy
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Post subject: Re: Anyone in the USA Still Repair/Refurb players? Posted: 29 Feb 2020, 00:11 |
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cplusplus wrote: Recap the entire unit or just the power supply? Either way you are in good shape because you should be able to find someone within driving distance if you don't want to do it yourself. It is mainly the video part of LD players that you can't find anyone to work on anymore. For example, if you call up a decent shop and tell them your power supply is dead, they should be able to fix it. They key word is decent though. I've heard horror stories of people going out of their way to pay a $50 or so diagnostic fee to a shop to be told they need a new board for a machine that left the factory 30 years ago. I'm not fully sure it could definitely be in the power supply. Issues start manifesting when it's been playing a disc for awhile. It's possible to not see it on shorter movies but if it is longer or I am watching a couple things in a row there starts to be an issue with a distorted thick line near the top of the picture. I know it's not the discs because when I first saw this happen I frantically checked the same spots on other players.
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xtempo
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Post subject: Re: Anyone in the USA Still Repair/Refurb players? Posted: 29 Feb 2020, 20:20 |
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Joined: 02 Apr 2006, 21:20 Posts: 2125 Location: United States Has thanked: 75 times Been thanked: 132 times
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tasuke wrote: cplusplus wrote: What years did they make the LD-S1? 1986-1989? IIRC; 1987~1989 U.S. 1986~1988 JAPAN Its pretty much the same in both countries right? just introduced at different times for some reason?
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cplusplus
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Post subject: Re: Anyone in the USA Still Repair/Refurb players? Posted: 02 Mar 2020, 17:45 |
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xtempo wrote: Its pretty much the same in both countries right? just introduced at different times for some reason? Yep with the only differences I have seen being the back plate of the player and remote. The Japanese unit uses remote CU-LD005 and the US uses CLD-LD008. Surely identical except for the text. tasuke wrote: sales in the U.S. were slower, i suppose, or there was more stock produced for the market, taking longer to sell out, maybe. I'm not sure. Some of the US units show "MFD March 1989" on the back, unless they were just retrofitting the english back panels on the Japanese units.
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