@@oldgold1100 I have not mentioned it or even mentioned the name of the town it was in. All I have said is it was a large independent dealer with a warranty service center for many brands. I have said i worked for sony. I also have never mentioned the tv station i did my internment at.
Very useful video, the laser in my 887 changer will sooner or later need to be changed, I've already got the replacement pickup and will return to this tutorial. Regarding your story, I had lots of doubts before buying a rare and thus overpriced com port cable to calibrate my 16 year old camera. One will hardly need it more than once but I got it and kept it. In a long run the purchase has paid off as I myself serviced a few similar cameras for other people. P.S. Another annoying issue for these machines is poorly functioning 'tray open/close sensors.
when I was in the navy we did maintenance on our desoldering station by lubricating the interior with mineral oil to prevent the solder from sticking. I don't recall us ever having a blockage.
The key to clean the de-soldering pump tips is a hand drill. Hakko sells a specific drill tip to clean their pumps. It works great to clean out the tip that gets plugged up when de-soldering. The steel plunger is useless I've found. Go with the small drill tip and you are golden. Once you can clean the de-soldering pump tips properly, you will never use solder wick again.
i have to say weird, in regards to solder sucker tips, have being using those items for the most of twenty years. have few rolls of solder wick in the draw which i use now and then. but about six years ago i brought four used EDSYN suckers like the one we used at work , now have three still in working order. thanks for the tip about the switch, completely forgot about it.
I have a SL-PD6 which is basically the same unit with very minor differences, I bought used it read some CDs, some read fine some did not, some started fine but have way through the CD it would start to get noisy and skip and wouldn't even read the last tracks. Complete optical mechanisms for these are still available on AliExpress for relatively cheap so I went ahead and bough one, it's working great now, but I noticed that it does not like TDK CD-Rs at all, every other brand seems to work fine though.
@@12voltvids Dave you having a bad day? It may have been sitting under an AC vent who knows. Something was causing it to not read discs for the owner unless he was pulling your leg.
@Taco Neighbor doesn't have AC and there is none in my shop. My house on the other hand is nice and cool. Dirty disks are more likely, but they were clean.
@@12voltvids Okay, I was just brain storming, I'm in the USA (Georgia) I don't know KM, but I put it in the converter in my phone and it was almost 4 miles (mph) the surgery went well and she's doing well too? I wouldn't have looked forward to that long of a walk in the summer heat, I wouldn't have been in the best of moods myself. Well wishes for a speedy recovery for the Mrs. 👍
@@darinb.3273 yes about 4 miles. It was warm. Picked up the bike and went for a blast down the freeway to cool off. The Mrs is fine. Just won't be able to lift anything heavy for a few weeks. It was a repair for a botched procedure 24 years ago.
Your boss should have made the decision to buy that jig himself. That is the kind of thing he should do as a boss. I had a boss that skimped on everything, i often could not finish repairing electronic modules due to lack of parts. Stress built up over the years, i became ill.
The guy j worked for saw the service dept as a thorn in his side. He only kept it because customers wanted in house service. He wanted rid of it for years. After I left he hired a few guys that didn't know what they were doing. That was the final straw and he closed the in house service. Customers responded by shopping elsewhere and the store closed a few years later. He wouldn't spend a dime on the service dept. I had to supply my own solder iron, scope, meter ect.
I've seen these types of cd players pick the disc up and spin intermittently sometimes they even spin the disc in the other direction as if it was confused, turns out it was the optical laser pickup becoming weak.
Gotta spend money to make money. The bills should have included a line item for shop consumables. There probably was, but he sounds like the kind of guy who pocketed every cent he could get away with.
Digital Servo: guaranteed UNRECOVERABLE FAILURE. I don't know if it's the optical pickup, the laser illuminator or whatever that was not up to par with the former design. That's what I've got out of my very limited CD unit repair experience. Some just need tweaking and they come back playing beautifully. Perhaps the digital servo is too good by compensating for shifting values and degrading components... or perhaps no adaptation is done and the modern pick-ups are not of the same quality of the old.
I think i worked on one of those early Technics CD player SL-P1; to adjust all gain's you are required a special traverse unit base and a servo gain adjuster ... Luckily in my case it just had electronic problems and then worked fine with no adjustment required. It's a scam from big brands to require all that expensive equipment just to repair one generations of CD players: it pisses off both service centres who has to pay big money on test jig hardly ever used and customer when a service centre refuses to buy such expensive test jig and then does not offer repairs.
Great story about your past career, I enjoyed listening.
I've talked about the place but notice I have never mentioned the name of the shop. Not that it matters as they ahve been closed almost 10 years now.
@@12voltvids
Best not to mention the shop's name, it's more Professional.
It just goes to show that minimum solder is not always the best way to go.👍
@@oldgold1100 I have not mentioned it or even mentioned the name of the town it was in. All I have said is it was a large independent dealer with a warranty service center for many brands. I have said i worked for sony. I also have never mentioned the tv station i did my internment at.
Very useful video, the laser in my 887 changer will sooner or later need to be changed, I've already got the replacement pickup and will return to this tutorial. Regarding your story, I had lots of doubts before buying a rare and thus overpriced com port cable to calibrate my 16 year old camera. One will hardly need it more than once but I got it and kept it. In a long run the purchase has paid off as I myself serviced a few similar cameras for other people. P.S. Another annoying issue for these machines is poorly functioning 'tray open/close sensors.
As Joe Piscopo's character Danny Vermin said "...once, only once!"
Johnny Dangerously is a very underrated movie. 😁
I've had a slightly maniacal boss before.....sounds like you had one as well!
when I was in the navy we did maintenance on our desoldering station by lubricating the interior with mineral oil to prevent the solder from sticking. I don't recall us ever having a blockage.
The key to clean the de-soldering pump tips is a hand drill. Hakko sells a specific drill tip to clean their pumps. It works great to clean out the tip that gets plugged up when de-soldering. The steel plunger is useless I've found. Go with the small drill tip and you are golden. Once you can clean the de-soldering pump tips properly, you will never use solder wick again.
Another fine and great video and keep up the great work 👍👍👍
I use the stripped outer coax shield for solder wick. Apply a drop of soldering flux on it before use, its cheap and works just as well.
i have to say weird, in regards to solder sucker tips, have being using those items for the most of twenty years. have few rolls of solder wick in the draw which i use now and then. but about six years ago i brought four used EDSYN suckers like the one we used at work , now have three still in working order. thanks for the tip about the switch, completely forgot about it.
I have a SL-PD6 which is basically the same unit with very minor differences, I bought used it read some CDs, some read fine some did not, some started fine but have way through the CD it would start to get noisy and skip and wouldn't even read the last tracks. Complete optical mechanisms for these are still available on AliExpress for relatively cheap so I went ahead and bough one, it's working great now, but I noticed that it does not like TDK CD-Rs at all, every other brand seems to work fine though.
Optics are not accepting anything but actual CD. No recorded or such.
I wonder if he brought it in from somewhere cold and the lens was fogged up and by the time you got it to work on, it had stabilized and cleared off.
@@12voltvids Dave you having a bad day? It may have been sitting under an AC vent who knows. Something was causing it to not read discs for the owner unless he was pulling your leg.
@Taco Neighbor doesn't have AC and there is none in my shop. My house on the other hand is nice and cool. Dirty disks are more likely, but they were clean.
@@12voltvids Okay, I was just brain storming, I'm in the USA (Georgia) I don't know KM, but I put it in the converter in my phone and it was almost 4 miles (mph) the surgery went well and she's doing well too? I wouldn't have looked forward to that long of a walk in the summer heat, I wouldn't have been in the best of moods myself. Well wishes for a speedy recovery for the Mrs. 👍
@@darinb.3273 yes about 4 miles. It was warm. Picked up the bike and went for a blast down the freeway to cool off. The Mrs is fine. Just won't be able to lift anything heavy for a few weeks. It was a repair for a botched procedure 24 years ago.
Sometimes it would be easier just to fix the owner, not the hardware.
Your boss should have made the decision to buy that jig himself.
That is the kind of thing he should do as a boss.
I had a boss that skimped on everything, i often could not finish repairing electronic modules due to lack of parts. Stress built up over the years, i became ill.
The guy j worked for saw the service dept as a thorn in his side. He only kept it because customers wanted in house service. He wanted rid of it for years. After I left he hired a few guys that didn't know what they were doing. That was the final straw and he closed the in house service. Customers responded by shopping elsewhere and the store closed a few years later. He wouldn't spend a dime on the service dept. I had to supply my own solder iron, scope, meter ect.
Why you, as a propesional, don't have a desoldring gun?
I've seen these types of cd players pick the disc up and spin intermittently sometimes they even spin the disc in the other direction as if it was confused, turns out it was the optical laser pickup becoming weak.
Good music taste!
Gotta spend money to make money. The bills should have included a line item for shop consumables. There probably was, but he sounds like the kind of guy who pocketed every cent he could get away with.
Every bill had 2.00 in shop supplies added, and freight was 5.00 to have parts shipped in.
Digital Servo: guaranteed UNRECOVERABLE FAILURE.
I don't know if it's the optical pickup, the laser illuminator or whatever that was not up to par with the former design. That's what I've got out of my very limited CD unit repair experience. Some just need tweaking and they come back playing beautifully.
Perhaps the digital servo is too good by compensating for shifting values and degrading components... or perhaps no adaptation is done and the modern pick-ups are not of the same quality of the old.
do all cd player's have a switch for the lens? i didn't know cd players had that.
Yes they do.
On a technics cd-player i had just a lidswicht error and needed remplacement. Back in 2018.
I think i worked on one of those early Technics CD player SL-P1; to adjust all gain's you are required a special traverse unit base and a servo gain adjuster ... Luckily in my case it just had electronic problems and then worked fine with no adjustment required. It's a scam from big brands to require all that expensive equipment just to repair one generations of CD players: it pisses off both service centres who has to pay big money on test jig hardly ever used and customer when a service centre refuses to buy such expensive test jig and then does not offer repairs.
We got to that point. Shipped all that shit back to the manufacture. That was around the time i was getting ready to walk. I was so fed up with it.
You know, some people are thrifty. Any money spent eats into the profits. Yes, some purchases will actually save money in the long run.
Optical unit of these were better (more reliable) than the next gen.
Nice rant..lol