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micky
Apr 10, 2021, 10:15:11 PM4/10/21
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The CD player in my car worked well 2 months ago but last week I just
got Track Search, or Error, something like that.
Changed CD, same problem
Rest of radio works well.
Bought a Maxell CD cleaner. Amazingly, it looks like a CD but has two
little brushes on it.
It's supposed to give audio instructions when you "play" it. How can it
do this if the laser or receiver lens is too dirty to work?
At any rate, I ran it 4 or 5 times and it doesn't say anything.
Is that enough evidence to firmly conclude it's broken and cleaning
won't help?
The Maxell CD was 6 dollars, and got high Amazon ratings.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001OM5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00
4.1 stars on 5700 ratings.
They sell two others, Memorex and Optimum, for 10 and 14 dollars, also
with high ratings. But isn't buying one of them throwing good money
after bad?
got Track Search, or Error, something like that.
Changed CD, same problem
Rest of radio works well.
Bought a Maxell CD cleaner. Amazingly, it looks like a CD but has two
little brushes on it.
It's supposed to give audio instructions when you "play" it. How can it
do this if the laser or receiver lens is too dirty to work?
At any rate, I ran it 4 or 5 times and it doesn't say anything.
Is that enough evidence to firmly conclude it's broken and cleaning
won't help?
The Maxell CD was 6 dollars, and got high Amazon ratings.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001OM5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00
4.1 stars on 5700 ratings.
They sell two others, Memorex and Optimum, for 10 and 14 dollars, also
with high ratings. But isn't buying one of them throwing good money
after bad?
Rod Speed
Apr 10, 2021, 11:42:42 PM4/10/21
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"micky" <NONONO...@fmguy.com> wrote in message
news:fam47gpd1t0fc540m...@4ax.com...
> The CD player in my car worked well 2 months ago but last week I just
> got Track Search, or Error, something like that.
>
> Changed CD, same problem
>
> Rest of radio works well.
>
> Bought a Maxell CD cleaner. Amazingly, it looks like a CD but has two
> little brushes on it.
>
> It's supposed to give audio instructions when you "play" it. How can it
> do this if the laser or receiver lens is too dirty to work?
>
> At any rate, I ran it 4 or 5 times and it doesn't say anything.
>
> Is that enough evidence to firmly conclude it's broken and cleaning
> won't help?
Very likely but not certain.
> got Track Search, or Error, something like that.
>
> Changed CD, same problem
>
> Rest of radio works well.
>
> Bought a Maxell CD cleaner. Amazingly, it looks like a CD but has two
> little brushes on it.
>
> It's supposed to give audio instructions when you "play" it. How can it
> do this if the laser or receiver lens is too dirty to work?
>
> At any rate, I ran it 4 or 5 times and it doesn't say anything.
>
> Is that enough evidence to firmly conclude it's broken and cleaning
> won't help?
Do you smoke ? If you do you may well find that you
can open the player up and clean the lens with some
isopropyl alcohol or just metho if you don't have that
and get the muck that smokers produce off the lens.
A brush wont do that.
> The Maxell CD was 6 dollars, and got high Amazon ratings.
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001OM5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00
> 4.1 stars on 5700 ratings.
> They sell two others, Memorex and Optimum, for 10
> and 14 dollars, also with high ratings. But isn't buying
> one of them throwing good money after bad?
rbowman
Apr 11, 2021, 12:58:56 AM4/11/21
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I've disassembled one after a cleaning disc didn't work and found the
problem was in the mechanism that positions the laser head.
I think the current car does have a CD player but I use MP3s from a USB
stick or Bluetooth from the phone for variety. Non-moving parts don't
skip on rough roads.
Peeler
Apr 11, 2021, 3:40:47 AM4/11/21
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On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 13:42:30 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:
>> Is that enough evidence to firmly conclude it's broken and cleaning
>> won't help?
>
> Very likely but not certain.
>
> Do you smoke ? If you do you may well find that you
> can open the player up and clean the lens with some
> isopropyl alcohol or just metho if you don't have that
> and get the muck that smokers produce off the lens.
> A brush wont do that.
IOW, you have NO idea what's wrong but you will run off at the mouth anyway
in your known obnoxious senile manner, psychotic Mr. Know-it-all!
--
Marland answering senile Rodent's statement, "I don't leak":
"That’s because so much piss and shite emanates from your gob that there is
nothing left to exit normally, your arsehole has clammed shut through disuse
and the end of prick is only clear because you are such a Wanker."
Message-ID: <gm2h57...@mid.individual.net>
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:
>> Is that enough evidence to firmly conclude it's broken and cleaning
>> won't help?
>
> Very likely but not certain.
>
> Do you smoke ? If you do you may well find that you
> can open the player up and clean the lens with some
> isopropyl alcohol or just metho if you don't have that
> and get the muck that smokers produce off the lens.
> A brush wont do that.
in your known obnoxious senile manner, psychotic Mr. Know-it-all!
--
Marland answering senile Rodent's statement, "I don't leak":
"That’s because so much piss and shite emanates from your gob that there is
nothing left to exit normally, your arsehole has clammed shut through disuse
and the end of prick is only clear because you are such a Wanker."
Message-ID: <gm2h57...@mid.individual.net>
ohg...@gmail.com
Apr 11, 2021, 10:41:45 AM4/11/21
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On Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 10:15:11 PM UTC-4, micky wrote:
>
> Bought a Maxell CD cleaner. Amazingly, it looks like a CD but has two
> little brushes on it.
>
> It's supposed to give audio instructions when you "play" it. How can it
> do this if the laser or receiver lens is too dirty to work?
When you put the CD in, the CD spins, the laser sled goes looking for a reflective surface and then tries to focus on it. During this time, the spinning CD is brushing up against the lens even if the unit is not in "play".
>
> Bought a Maxell CD cleaner. Amazingly, it looks like a CD but has two
> little brushes on it.
>
> It's supposed to give audio instructions when you "play" it. How can it
> do this if the laser or receiver lens is too dirty to work?
> At any rate, I ran it 4 or 5 times and it doesn't say anything.
>
> Is that enough evidence to firmly conclude it's broken and cleaning
> won't help?
I don't work on CDs any more, but when I did, dirty lens usually resulted in a complaint of erratic skipping or muting, and even then, it pointed more to a weak laser than a dirty lens. Cleaning the lens used to buy some time at best.
ohg...@gmail.com
Apr 11, 2021, 10:45:59 AM4/11/21
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On Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 3:40:47 AM UTC-4, Peeler wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 13:42:30 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
> Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:
...
> On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 13:42:30 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
> Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:
> "That’s because so much piss and shite emanates from your gob that there is
> nothing left to exit normally, your arsehole has clammed shut through disuse
> and the end of prick is only clear because you are such a Wanker."
> Message-ID: <gm2h57...@mid.individual.net>
Wow, your monthly friend visiting this weekend? If you have a problem with the poster, take it off group. No one here is interested in your whining. I don't know either one of you, but just from reading your post and his, it's you who sounds like the fool.
> nothing left to exit normally, your arsehole has clammed shut through disuse
> and the end of prick is only clear because you are such a Wanker."
> Message-ID: <gm2h57...@mid.individual.net>
Tekkie©
Apr 12, 2021, 3:12:59 PM4/12/21
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On Sat, 10 Apr 2021 22:14:54 -0400, micky posted for all of us to digest...
Send it to a car radio repair shop and pay big bux.
Get one from a junkyard and swap it.
Do as other posters have suggested and use memory stick or like.
Get a portable CD player and plug it in.
--
Tekkie
Cydrome Leader
Apr 12, 2021, 7:55:25 PM4/12/21
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In sci.electronics.repair micky <NONONO...@fmguy.com> wrote:
> The CD player in my car worked well 2 months ago but last week I just
> got Track Search, or Error, something like that.
>
> Changed CD, same problem
>
> Rest of radio works well.
>
> Bought a Maxell CD cleaner. Amazingly, it looks like a CD but has two
> little brushes on it.
>
> It's supposed to give audio instructions when you "play" it. How can it
> do this if the laser or receiver lens is too dirty to work?
>
> At any rate, I ran it 4 or 5 times and it doesn't say anything.
>
> Is that enough evidence to firmly conclude it's broken and cleaning
> won't help?
For an automtive CD player, yes. It's dead, move on. If you can get the
> The CD player in my car worked well 2 months ago but last week I just
> got Track Search, or Error, something like that.
>
> Changed CD, same problem
>
> Rest of radio works well.
>
> Bought a Maxell CD cleaner. Amazingly, it looks like a CD but has two
> little brushes on it.
>
> It's supposed to give audio instructions when you "play" it. How can it
> do this if the laser or receiver lens is too dirty to work?
>
> At any rate, I ran it 4 or 5 times and it doesn't say anything.
>
> Is that enough evidence to firmly conclude it's broken and cleaning
> won't help?
thing out of the dashboard and take it apart, you might have a chance, but
if it just died a sudden death, it's probably not work fussing with.
dansabr...@yahoo.com
Apr 13, 2021, 5:20:35 PM4/13/21
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