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Originally Posted by Captain Video
More and more, we live in this kind of world, where everything looks like to have gone out of factory just to be discarded at the first opportunity. A few weeks ago, my DVD player, which is a very good player, a Panasonic that I bought in 2004, when these devices were still kind of expensive, appeared with a little problem. The plug was becoming extremely hot with just a couple of hours of use. I took the DVD player to be examined by an authorized Panasonic tech. When my mother new of this, she said: "Why don't you just throw it away, after all DVD players are just so cheap, you can buy a new one." I was shocked to hear this. I went to the repair shop anyway. As it turns out, it was just a bad plug, the replacement plug and cord cost me only US$ 4,00.
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Excellent! Myself, I scored a General Electric CD player, Model 3-7000A, made in May of 1984 (so it is a very early model CD player), designed for console stereos, last Sunday when I went over to my friend's condo complex. It was starting to drizzle a little bit as I picked it up and into the truck it went. I brought it home and plugged it in. I turned the power on, it got power no problem but the carriage to eject the disc and insert them didn't work. So I cracked open the top and assisted the carriage by hand. I noticed that the belt to the mechanism is overstretched and if I replaced that, most likely, it will be good as new. I did put a CD into it, and it started to spin and play as I watched it to my delight.
Shame it was going to get tossed out over a trival thing like a belt. Myself, if I really had to, I would use a gum band (what we call "rubber bands" here in Pittsburgh) until I got the right belt to run it.
Well, for some reason, I'm a magnet for old stuff, I have two 1970's vintage stereos so now I have a CD player along with a turntable for them.