My turbo grafx original cd player doesn't spin.

[chop5]

thanks for the pics. wow i can see the damage where it broke off. This is gonna be a toughy to locate a part. But nothing is impossible to find,let the searching begin!

can you show one more pic of the opened unit getting all of it in? I could open mine but since you got yours open already
And you say the gears are kinda like bolted down? can the gear area be removed? I wonder if the broken area can be  cut flat and another gear slid in and krazy glued over the stub.

[Necromancer]

Prices like those will sometimes appear on eBay, but most sellers would rather gouge than be fair.

Beyond that, keep an eye on for sale forum here. Also, subscribe to the Turbo List.

I just sold a TG-CD player for $115 shipped, and that's only because it was going international. Domestic would've been around $100.

Never try to use eBay as a value guide for American TurboGrafx stuff.

Word, though systems bundled with extra controllers and 10-15 games regularly sell on ebay for about $150.  Selling off the extras would easily get the system's cost below $100, albeit with the hassle of reselling and shipping.

[nat]

Well, yeah, having bundled games included does tend to raise up the price a bit.

[kid_rondeau]

What do I lubricate inside and what do I lubricate it with?  I dont want to use the wrong type of lubricant or get it where it does not belong. 

I was thinking more about this....about what's a good, innoccuous lubricant for plastic. And then I remembered when I put together my old Revell "V8 Engine" Model Kit!

There were so many moving parts in there that you had to lube it a bit. What did the instructions call for?
Drumroll Please.......
Vegetable Oil!!!!

So, that should be good for our needs.

[kokuryu]

Beyond that, keep an eye on for sale forum here. Also, subscribe to the Turbo List.

Has The Turbo List changed it's homepage and signup email?  I tried to sign up with no return responses yet, and tried to go to the home page here http://joyce.eng.yale.edu/~bt/turbo/ but the site is down.

[Necromancer]

Has The Turbo List changed it's homepage and signup email?  I tried to sign up with no return responses yet, and tried to go to the home page here http://joyce.eng.yale.edu/~bt/turbo/ but the site is down.

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[nat]

Beyond that, keep an eye on for sale forum here. Also, subscribe to the Turbo List.

Has The Turbo List changed it's homepage and signup email?  I tried to sign up with no return responses yet, and tried to go to the home page here http://joyce.eng.yale.edu/~bt/turbo/ but the site is down.

Yes.

The site moved to the following URL:

turbo.mindrec.com

[kokuryu]

Awesome.  Thanks you two!

[kid_rondeau]

can you show one more pic of the opened unit getting all of it in? I could open mine but since you got yours open already
And you say the gears are kinda like bolted down? can the gear area be removed? I wonder if the broken area can be  cut flat and another gear slid in and krazy glued over the stub.

Chop5,
here are three kinda lo-res pics of the inside of my TG-CD. I don't know if they'll be of any use to you, but I feel I was procrastinating long enough.

I do have one addition though: I tried to remove the broken gear from its shaft. It was being held in place with a small clip or ring (see last photo) that I tore off with pliers. Upon doing this I realized that the shaft had always been stationary, mounted in place, while the gear spun freely on it.

So, now I feel that a complete mechanical fix could be in place if I could:
-find a replacement gear,
-remove the little bit of remaining metal on the shaft (leftover part of the clip that I couldn't remove)
-install the new gear (and a new clip) onto the shaft.

It should be good as new if we can do this!

[chop5]

cool thanks kid rondeau. I should of searched the forum better cause i found this pic of a pc engine cd opened. I can see the complete gear in it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/jetbue7/pcengineopengc4.jpg

i looked through my parts box and couldnt find a gear close to it. Il gut some old sony players later during the month.

[kid_rondeau]

Chop5,
did you see how yellow the offending gear was in the picture you just showed? I'm starting to think they used a defective batch of plastic on those gears.

Man, I gotta get crackin' on this!

[spenoza]

There's another thread where we discussed trying to find replacement gears, or even order newly manufactured replacement gears, but AFAIK nothing ever came of it.

[MissaFX]

There's another thread where we discussed trying to find replacement gears, or even order newly manufactured replacement gears, but AFAIK nothing ever came of it.

All those high tech parts and in the end it is a cheap gear people have problems with

[spenoza]

Mochiron desu. It's ALWAYS something simple. As complex as modern CPUs are, bad capacitors on the mobo usually give out first. And in mechanical products, gears. Make stuff cheaply and you pay the price.

[kid_rondeau]

Hey guys,
I've been having some promising results looking at Robotics Components websites. They seem to have a lot of small plastic gears. Of course, I don't believe I'll find the exact "2 in 1" gear I'm trying to replace, but I do think I can locate two separate gears to fit the bill, and glue them together as per Chop5's post.

This weekend I'll open one of my two "terminally ill" TG-CD's and extract the gear in question. I'll bring it to work next week and look at it under the magnifier to count teeth and use the calipers to measure bore and diamater.

And of course, I'll update you all on my findings. Dude.