Hi
I have a Sony CFD-703L which has worked well for the last 10 years or so. However it hasn't been used for about a year and I plugged it in and put a CD in to listen to. It plays the first track, but won't play any others. The CD player makes a noise as if it searching for the the track. It does this on all CDs.
It is just a case of the laser needs cleaning?
Thanks for your help
Regards Michael
Michael,
The problem could be a stray hair in the mechanism.
CD players have a lens that moves. Nearly all players use 2 mechanisms to move the lens from beginning to end: a voice coil around the lens, and a motor with worm to move the voice coil assembly.
If the latter is stuck it cannot move across teh CD to where it must go. Maybe the worm motor doesn't work at all and it can find the start track anyhow.
Thomas
Sounds like the lens assembly cannot travel past the first track. The first track is closest to the center of the disc and the assembly travels towards the outer edge of the disc as it plays. Disassemble and manually turn the worm gear, or put a 3V or so voltage on the sled motor. When you examine the gears where it gets stuck you will probably find some sort of obstruction in the gears, piece of sand, dirt. Once removed it will probably work fine. Common problem. The laser lens doesn't sound like it needs cleaning - it reads the Table of Contents and the first track. It's probably not a bad spindle motor either, since it spins the fastest reading the inside tracks. Scott
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