TG-16 CD unit powers on.. gears not stuck yet no disk spin

[moondelight61]

Hi everyone.  I have had my unit s since launch day.. Worked fine.. Bern in storage for 13 years .. Took out .. TG is fine.. CD unit powers on get PC but CD does not spin... I opened cleaned.. Checked for gear lock..it's not..its ok.. But unit will jot spin disks via the motor..I can spin fine with my fingers..

I don't see any bad wires .. Is it a cap?

Thanks friends
Glen

[grache]

You need to regrease the worm gear.

[moondelight61]

Really ..its that simple

I will give it a try

[Medic_wheat]

I better check my US CD unit then. Maybe that us why the CD won't spin.

[Keith Courage]

Double check you didn't insert the ribbon cables the wrong direction. The larger ribbon cable should be inserted with the contacts facing outwards away from the center of the CD drive. 

Also, if the gears are too hard to move sometimes re-greasing does not help because the center of said gear swells up making it hard to move. A solution for this would be either to remove the gear and drill out the hole slightly larger or buy a new gear. The forum member choijimmy sells them for a great price.

[Bloufo]

Sometimes all it can be is the ground on one of the ribbon cables.
It's held on there by some sort of glue, and over time can get loose.

[Keith Courage]

that ground strip is not needed. you can remove it with no issues.

However, if it is loose and makes contact to any part of the motherboard then that can cause the cd player to not spin up as well.

[Bloufo]

that ground strip is not needed. you can remove it with no issues.

However, if it is loose and makes contact to any part of the motherboard then that can cause the cd player to not spin up as well.

Good to know.
I used electrical tape on one of my cd units wrt that ground strip. Still gives me issues from time to time.
So I needn't have bothered? Just remove that bugger altogether. Ok will do.

[Keith Courage]

I don't always remove them but if I see that they are about to fall off then yes just take the thing out  of there. More trouble than it's worth trying to tape the thing and have it fall off again later.

[moondelight61]

I am taking my CD unit to work and will check the grease ... The ribbon cable is set correctly.. I will double check the ground wire .. Will let everyone know today thanks to all of you for your input this is one of my fav units ... Want her back to glory days

[moondelight61]

Well opened her up again...

checked gears, grease ..cables... all looks good..

still just powers on... PC and that's it.

i did open CD door, and pressed the latch to make it think its closed... i did not see the laser do anything... should i see any movement on that? 

Thanks guys
Glen

[Keith Courage]

Your lens could be dead. The lens should move slightly and then you would also see a red light coming out of it. Double check your ribbon cables one more time to be sure.

[moondelight61]

God that would SUCK    . . . when i looked i made sure to see if there was ANY movement or red .. there was none... but will reset all cables again ..

I will do that.. thank you man.. are there any real replacements if that's the case?  boy shes been sleeping for so long and was working.. thought that was better then use 24/7

thanks Keith C and everyone.. will keep you posted got stuck at work late so my baby is still at the office..so will check tomorrow.

Glen

[Keith Courage]

Unfortunately new lenses for these are very expensive. You are better off getting a used sony discman on ebay to get a working lens.

Models D-2 D-4 D-11 D-12 D-33 and D-34 I know have them.

D-33 and D-34 are the newest models that would have it.

Also, the lens should be at the inner most center of the drive in order for it to move/light up. Might want to make sure the lens position stop switch works because if that switch is bad then the lens will not engage. To test, hit play on the cd player with it open. push on the switch to see if the lens will move the other direction. If it doesn't then the switch is bad. Hopefully not since there is no where to get a replacement one without buying a broken pc engine CD drive for parts.

[moondelight61]

Thanks Keith courage .. I will give a go on her tomorrow and let you know results ..

Fingers crossed