Bought it as a floor model from Sears back in 1997.
Not used it much till recently, playing the full 25 loaded CD's for hours on random.
Today it says no disc on every CD it loads and spins.
Opened it up, cleaned the CD lense with Windex, loads the CD seems to spin it ok but cannot find the TOC I guess.
Didnt look to see if the lense is focusing yet or is the sled is frozen.
Did a little deep dive on AI, and while I do have a lot of custom burned CD's the regular store bought CD's give the same error.
Found service info on HFE I am gonna look at later, was gonna take the cd mech out for an inspection later but it dont look like an easy disassembly.
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C
Chuck
Some Pioneers of that vintage had the lens fall off the laser assembly. Don't use super glue to reattach it because it will fog the lens.
U
UFO
Its still there, tried cleaning it , no help.
I detached the CD mech assy from the slider bar, the sled seemed to never be moving so I nudged it a bit with my finger, there was a small POP noise and it moves now, but this piece fell out:
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According to SM, looks like that is part of the pickup assy , ref: 50 Part No. AEA7004
This place had one:
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Good photos and can see where it goes.
Apparently there is a spring in it, as I suspected so its probably lost, fallen out since its so tiny. Might get lucky with a spring from a pen, dunno.
Other number on the pickup comes up in an AI search:
================================================================================================== The TZ2C-P3X is an original Pioneer optical laser pickup unit (also identified by part numbers PNP1245-F and PWX1190) designed for use in Pioneer Compact Disc players.
This pickup was installed in various Pioneer CD models, including:
PD-P550 and PD-P5500 PD-S505 and PD-S605 PD-TM3 PD-V10G PD-004, PD-104, and PD-204 PDC-Q180 X-P360S XC-L7 XR-J130 and XR-J330 XR-P150, XR-P160, XR-P2000, XR-P250, XR-P260, XR-P350, XR-P360, XR-P460, and XR-P460R XR-Q150 and XR-Q250 XS-P550, XS-P5500, and XS-P6500 XS-R9 =============================================================================================== Found one on ebay
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But I guess I will tear the CD mech apart and try to put it back on with a proper spring if I can locate one....
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