where to purchase CDM 3 & 4 ?

[transitube]

Hi All!

Where to purchase NOS CDM 3 & 4 ?
These parts seem to be very difficult to find today. Is somebody it
able to transplant a laser block of current manufacture in an old
machine equipped with CDM3/4/9? Thanks for your help in this matter, best regards,
stephan

[guido]

CDM3 (see my avatar..): nearly impossible. They sometimes pop up at ebay or so. $250 for one iirc. There are not that many around.

Maybe try to find them as spare parts for cd jukeboxes (google on cdm3 and jukebox). But you will find things like "The CDM3, CDM4, and CDM-12 players are all obsolete and ZERO repair parts are available. "

However, i think that is not true for cdm4. There are lots of players for sale (at least over here) with cdm4 based transports for even little money. Most of them will be 4/19, but you can always swap the laser (between cdm4's).

Guido