video disc player (CED) problems

[Adam]

I finally found some discs for my CED video disc player, RCA model SFT100W. What it does is play the disc for about 30 seconds, then get stuck, move backwards for a while, then start playing it again until it gets to the same point in the disc, then get stuck and go backwards again, and do it over and over. It does this on all the discs I tried, and I tried about 10, so I don't think the problem is due to bad discs. The rewind and pause functions work, but when I try the fast foward, it moves foward for just a few seconds, then gets stuck.

I found this in the back lot of a used electronic parts store, where it had been sitting outside at the bottom of a heap of junk for probably decades. It was being rained on, as the shifting of the piles of stuff had recently exposed it. The fact that it still works this well I think speaks highly of the quality of these units. Anyway, if anyone who knows these things can point me in the right direction thanks alot. I am hoping to watch the discs on my ctc-15, as the mixture of two seldomly seen anymore devices such as these really appeals to me. Although I suppose watching it on the system 3 would be more accurate as to what these were originally watched on.