Turbo Grafx/PC engine CD Gear replacement available! $12 shipped

[thesteve]

the belt slippage is not an issue as its not a syncro motor, and extends motor and driver IC life.

[Trevpwnsnoobs]

shouldnt this be in the sale thread?

[termis]

This is some great info.  Thanks for the post.

[nat]

I'm a little late to the party, but I wanted to say thanks for finally sharing your information with the community. Many will benefit from this.

[Keith Courage]

Just letting everyone here know that I just got some more gears in. I was also able to find a slightly cheaper place to order them from so $12 is now the cost for a gear.

[blueraven]

OK. I will order one from you later this weekend.

By isolating and contributing this fix to the community and sharing the knowledge for all to see you have done everyone here a service and I think you for that.

I'm glad you've decided to stick around, Keith. You're cool in my book.

[Frank_fjs]

Good work Keith - great to see a solution to this problem.

[Duo_R]

shoutbox on the backup pcefx site?

very nice chris,excellant tutorial.
come on over to the shoutbox were we techys talk for hours on end of the obscure technologies of mankinds past and how to restore them 

[thesteve]

http://pcengine.freeforums.org/new_chat.php

[Keith Courage]

I'll head on over when I get a chance guys. Thanks for the invite.  I work to dam much.

[Keith Courage]

I just got more gears in if anyone needs them.

[Samurai Ghost]

Yeah, I'm interested in a couple sets! I'll send you a PM about it.

[kamiboy]

I was image searching for plastic spur gears to see whether I could find any that remotely look like that problematic fragile one in the PC Engine CD-ROM2 and noticed quite a few links to this place:

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/271844309/Plastic_spur_gear_mould.html

It seems to be a site where manufacturers offer their wares to be sold in bulks of varying sizes.  Most of the gear related producers seem to indicate that they are able to make these according to custom specifications. The link above seems to have a very reasonable 38 set minimum order limit as well.

It might be a long shot but perhaps it is possible to secure a supply of perfect replacement gears for broken CD-ROM2 units.

[kamiboy]

Keith do you have any gears left? I want to secure one. I sent you a PM a while back.

[Keith Courage]

Yes, I still have them and plan to keep getting them as long as the places I order from don't run out.