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

[thesteve]

i think those come in red and green

[FiftyQuid]

Yeah, as soon as I saw it I thought green would be a better choice.  I'll have to desolder it and look for a replacement.  LED displays are pretty standard so I doubt this one would be proprietary to NEC.

[thesteve]

so standard radio shack used to have them (not sure if they still do)

[FiftyQuid]

so standard radio shack used to have them (not sure if they still do)

The RadioShack's in Canada are now called "The Source" (owned by Circuit City) and don't have anything like this any more.  I visited my local RadioScrap the other day and was greeted when I walked in by the salesman...

"Anything I can help you with?"

"I need a tin of flux"

"A tin of what?"

I then proceed to explain what it was, and what it was used for.  The sales guy escorted me over to the soldering section and to my dismay there was literally nothing there.  I saw one soldering kit, and nothing else.  No empty pegs, nothing out of stock, just them not carrying anything.  It's really a shame.  I use to use them all the time.  Hell I work there for two years back in 2001.  I have to visit a specialty store for this stuff now.  

Does anyone have any specs on the LED display?  Voltage it uses? Dimensions?

[EDIT] Sorry, I'll create a new thread for this.  I don't want to hijack KC's gear thread.

[dremcast]

hey keight were can i buy the gear? u said u sell but where? how can i pay u? i live in eurpe spain, where are u from? please answerd me as soon as posible. thank u  here is my mail too edu220477@hotmail.com

[Keith Courage]

Just messaged you back.

[8bitForLife]

Did you look at the two gears and spin them to see if all the teeth lined up well before putting it back together? It might need to be shimmed. If that part check out fine then try this.  Play your final zone game as a music CD. To do this you hit play on the cd player itself. Start by going to track 3 and then hit stop. Did you hear a weird sound? If not procede to track 4 then hit stop and so on. If it doesn't happen until around track 12-15 or so then the sound you are hearing is the plastic part that holds the lens on track. Sometimes the lens can move so fast that this part hops around when the lens returns to the stop center position. This is especially noticeable when a game loads for the first time from a games first cinema cut scene. It is possible to slightly bend the peice or add some grease to the lens track to try and remedy it but usually it's just something that happens from wear and tear. It is not gear related and shouldn't really get worse over time. I have a CD drive on hand that has made that sound for about 3 years now depending on the game being played and it hasn't gotten any worse.

would a cd with scratches also cause this. I messed my winds of thunder up a couple years ago trying to get new cd laser to work and also whats the best grease to use on a turbo duo rx gears.

ill probably end up repairing my t16 cdrom with these gears though but iv got some other stuff going on right now so money is being diverted elsewhere

EDIT: its only a couple of scratches i think i might get it professionally resurfaced with my Ys I originally got 15 years ago.

[Duo_R]

got the gear today and installed in on a JP unit, man this thing is working like a champ now! Thank a ton. I have also noticed the load time differnce, like when the game normally pauses in Gates of Thunder when the bosses load, it is noticeably faster!

I do want to upgrade my spindle unit to the "snap-in" kind so if anyone has one that is compatible let me know.

[Samurai Ghost]

got the gear today and installed in on a JP unit, man this thing is working like a champ now! Thank a ton. I have also noticed the load time differnce, like when the game normally pauses in Gates of Thunder when the bosses load, it is noticeably faster!

I do want to upgrade my spindle unit to the "snap-in" kind so if anyone has one that is compatible let me know.

Glad you got it working man!!

[Duo_R]

Me too thanks Samurai!

[Drakon]

Trying to order some since my gear just lost a row of teeth.  I've already done all the necessary mods.  Just waiting for keith to pm me the paypal address to send money to.

[Drakon]

The keith courage gears showed up today.  I ordered three of them because after probing around with the original hardware I could tell that removing that middle gear is a must.  I did all the necessary modding and stuck everything back together annnnnnddddd....



Words cannot describe how thankful I am that this fix exists.  I love how my cd unit looks and I'd be very sad if I had to play games on a duo (I know it sounds strange).  Installing this gear is a lot of work and I recommend people hire an experienced modder to get the job done right.  I highly recommend people to buy these gears since they remove such a big hardware flaw.  My cd unit has never run better.

[Lost Monkey]

I too was able to revive my unit with a gear from KC.  I was replacing the laser already and noticed the gear was about to turn to mush...

12 years since my TG-CD had spun!  Awesome!

[Drakon]

Yeah I thought this gear was just a replacement that would eventually break like the original gear.  But these keith courage gears are much more they make it so you'll never have another broken gear.

[FiftyQuid]

I bought one too, and it worked to get my CD unit running again.  Just curious, but is louder than it was?  I haven't greased mine up, so I think it's just moving SUPER fast and make a lot of noise accessing tracks.  It's not grinding, but it's moving fast.