Toshiba DVD repairs? - off track..

[jakkwb]

Greetings,

A friend of mine was using this DVD (model #SD-M1202) some days ago. A small gear fell out of the door.

Well, I took the unit apart and found where the gear goes, now I cannot get the platter correctly lined up in the track (if anyone has ever taken one of these apart, you know what I am talking about). Right now, if I push the platter in all the way, the read head doesn't come all the way up. I don't see that there is a way to do this. I have tried to rotate the gear mechanism slightly (that has worked before on different units), but this one does not allow the platter to go in if the gear mechanism is turned any.

Anyone have any pointers?

Thanks,

Al

[sardo_numspa]

Being that DVD drives are cheap as hell ,why would you waste time fixing it at all? You can get a new one for $45.00.

[Garak]

Originally posted by sardo_numspa
Being that DVD drives are cheap as hell ,why would you waste time fixing it at all? You can get a new one for $45.00.

I'm pretty sure the poster is refering to a DVD player and not just a rom drive..

[Chris_MacMahon]

nah that's a dvd-rom.....

yup pick one up for the cheap 45.00....

i learned that once upon a time, all mfg's add extra peices to all the stuff they assemble...

[sardo_numspa]

Yup, it is.

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/netcomdi...sd48desdv.html

[Garak]

yeah, i noticed afterwards, tried to delete my post but they wont delete

[confus-ed]

Originally posted by sardo_numspa
Being that DVD drives are cheap as hell ,why would you waste time fixing it at all? You can get a new one for $45.00.

That's a days pay for some, enough to buy food for a month some places in the world....

BUT when little bits fall out , warranty?, if not you may be out of luck or just very patient & handy with tubes of superglue....

Sadly we live in a throw away society, so the little bit of metal/plastic you want (with a cost of $0.02) won't be available.... so you'll have to commit all that nasty non bio-degradable, non-recyclable material to either a landfill or worse still an incinerator.

Its attitudes like this that make the planet a worse place to live....

Now just hang on a mo' while I climb down from the moral high-ground.....