Re: Technics SL-P101 Fixed!

From: Sam Goldwasser (sam_at_saul.cis.upenn.edu)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: 08 Jan 2005 08:28:06 -0500

"William R. Walsh" <newsgroups1@saveyourspam.walshcomptech.com> writes:

> Hi!
>
> > Units exposed to water can have all sorts of weird problems occur,
> > especially in electromechanical devices like cd players where there are
> > very fine tolerances.
>
> You don't say. :-) I recently had a major sewer failure cause a backup of
> water into my basement. Nearly none of the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drives that
> went under remain functional. It seems that the oldest drives took it a lot
> better (and held up to being cleaned in a much better way) than did any of
> the new ones. The drives run and "try to work" but I think that things
> inside the laser pickup got dirty when the water came along. I don't really
> know how to take laser pickups apart, if it can even be done. (And I have no
> desire to accidentally fry my eyes if the pickup were not to be quite
> correctly put back together.)

The safety risk is minimal. It's more an inssue of if it's even possible to
disassemble without totally messing up the alignment, breaking tiny wires,
etc. Almost any contamination on the optical surfaces will cause the
pickup to either not work at all or have degraded performance.

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