Hello everybody,
here I am after a whole summer I took an afternoon to dedicate to my old but beloved Sony CDP-X505ES, at the beginning it was the tray not to close, I got a new belt and it got fixed but the player refused to read disks :-(
I will cut the story short, I reopened it, removed the tray, cleaned the lens above the laser and the laser itself with a soft ear cleaning stick, I did remove some solidified dust off the axle where the pick-up slides on, applied some of the same grease I use on photo camera equipment, applied grease also on the magnetic clamp which keeps the disc on place whilst playing, made sure all the screws are tightened (read that some unbalance could create reading problems), mounted it all back besides the top cover, insert a disc and the TOC shows in a split second then the disc quits spinning, when I hit the play button the disc spins continuously but no music, as a matter of chance I reopened the tray, tighten all the screws again and now it reads but then gets stuck, accidentally I lifted it from the front and after a few seconds it keeps working fine to then stop again and working again after re-lifting the front, as if something impedes the pickup to freely slide along the axle now my concern is, since the axle is well cleaned and greased what else might be impeding its moving if that's the cause? There are two magnetic tracks where the mechanism of the pickup slides through, are those also prone to get dirt? If so how to clean them?
Attaching url of a video of what happens when I insert a disc and hit play, the video doesn't feature what happens when I lift the player's front and then it starts/continues to play