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Troubleshooting CD Players

Hello, I bought a Sony X333-ES with faulty tray, which I managed to solve (belt issue). Then a second problem became apparent: the laser lightens and tries to focus, but the CD never spins. Any advice from your experience?
 
dr*audio said:
If it's the spindle motor you would hear a sizzling sound. You can give the motor a little spin, clockwise, and if it continues to spin you have a bad motor. A bad spindle motor in a Sony home CD player is rare. In 40 years of servicing them I think I've replace 2 motors.
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Dr, is there possibly a laser power adjustment on the board as a last ditch effort? Couldn't hurt if the laser is suspect.
 
dr*audio said:
If it's the spindle motor you would hear a sizzling sound. You can give the motor a little spin, clockwise, and if it continues to spin you have a bad motor. A bad spindle motor in a Sony home CD player is rare. In 40 years of servicing them I think I've replace 2 motors.
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I just checked: inserted a CD, I heard the laser trying to focus and then nothing. After that I tried to spin manually the CD and it spins freely on both clock and anti clockwise.
 
Did you clean the laser lens? I watch (too many) Spare Time Repair videos on YouTube, and the guy cleans the lens on almost every CD player that he looks at. I bought one of the swing arm Magnavoxes and it didn't read anything. Popped it open, saw the lens was covered with some goop, cleaned it, and it works fine.
 
Nat said:
Did you clean the laser lens? I watch (too many) Spare Time Repair videos on YouTube, and the guy cleans the lens on almost every CD player that he looks at. I bought one of the swing arm Magnavoxes and it didn't read anything. Popped it open, saw the lens was covered with some goop, cleaned it, and it works fine.
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I clean the lens on every CD player with read problems and it rarely fixes it.
 
Nat said:
Did you clean the laser lens? I watch (too many) Spare Time Repair videos on YouTube, and the guy cleans the lens on almost every CD player that he looks at. I bought one of the swing arm Magnavoxes and it didn't read anything. Popped it open, saw the lens was covered with some goop, cleaned it, and it works fine.
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Yes, I cleaned the lens, but it didn't correct the issue.
 
Too bad - coming from camera repairs, I was dubious of cleaning laser lenses - they are coated plastic and I wasn't sure what would be safe to use on them. But Spare Time's sometimes vigorous cleaning suggested to me that I was over cautious. And in the case of the Magnavox, it worked immediately. So I thought it worth asking..
 
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