Help: TG CD clicking noise

[rookie3001]

Hello!

I have a Turbo Grafx CD unit. It's being choosy about when it wants to load a disc... sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't.

I suppose the main problem is this clicking noise when the disc is spinning.

Here is a short :30 video showing the problem.


I appreciate any input.  I know I'm not an active member - but this forum was able to help me fix the capacitors on my TE unit last year!    Thanks for your time and help!

[hoobs88]

I had a similar problem a while back. Mine needed new gears since the teeth were broken. BlueBMW was able to replace them for me.

[Fidde_se]

As it reads sometimes the gear is not broken, even if it will break soon, they all are.

And as the clickings is constant it can't be the gear giving the sound as the gear only moves every now and then,
the only thing moving all the time is the disc, meaning it's someting with the motor for it, the holder for it could have gotten pressed
down to much on it's axel, making woobly discs hit/scratch something while spinning, the holder (spindle?) can be pressed up if that
were the problem.

The motor for the cd could be on it's last leg... extremely unusal but, could be something physical in it, perhaps...

[Keith Courage]

Sounds like the CD is scraping on either the plastic or the black metal part underneath the CD. Might need to open it up and find out why.