CD drive repair?

bigbacon · 04/28/2015, 02:56 PM

anyone do this?

I have a drive that powers up at least to say PC but discs do not spin up. the gears are intact and not missing any teeth.

ddoubledee · 04/28/2015, 03:20 PM

Lots of folks on this forum can help. Good people here.

So it's a TurboGrafx-CD (not Duo) drive, correct? (Must be to have the PC display)

What position is the laser in right now? Did you try this...? Move the laser manually outward-- away from the centre... Then insert a disc and try to play it... Does the laser move back to the centre position?

bigbacon · 04/28/2015, 03:24 PM

actually upon further inspection... the one gear is broken... the one that gets nice an yellow...

I can watch the laser move up and down now and it actually tries to do something but with that gear brokwn it can't just makes a bad noise.

disc still doesn't ever spin up though.

ddoubledee · 04/28/2015, 03:39 PM

Ok, then you'll have to get that gear changed before we can check anything else. But hopefully that'll be the only problem.

You can find replacement gears online, or maybe even from a forum member here... Just be very, very careful not to loose the tiny tiny TINY little O clip that holds the gear on the shaft if you take the gear off yourself. Or one of us could do it for you if you ask nicely and cover shipping. :3

bigbacon · 04/28/2015, 03:42 PM

I ordered one from Console5.com

Is there a video or something that explains really well how to replace it?

ddoubledee · 04/28/2015, 03:46 PM

A quick google search found this...

bigbacon · 04/28/2015, 06:17 PM

thanks....

i can't believe i didn't find that video during my search

bigbacon · 05/01/2015, 04:28 PM

damn that was easy... 8.95 well spent...

drive works no problem now...

ddoubledee · 05/06/2015, 02:05 AM

Great news! Very happy to hear we have another TG-16+CD system up and running.