Hi cchean,
I'm afraid you're going to have to buy a parts unit. It is a special cable. With any luck, the one you get may have a working head and you can just swap the transports.
-Chris
I'm afraid you're going to have to buy a parts unit. It is a special cable. With any luck, the one you get may have a working head and you can just swap the transports.
-Chris
Hi russc,
Those cables were part of a small flexible "circuit board" that the laser diode, monitor diode and coils attached directly to. Some would break in normal service and none were ever made available as spares from Philips or any company that used those transports. So if the cable cracked - dead transport.
A picture at a different angle would show this.
-Chris
Those cables were part of a small flexible "circuit board" that the laser diode, monitor diode and coils attached directly to. Some would break in normal service and none were ever made available as spares from Philips or any company that used those transports. So if the cable cracked - dead transport.
A picture at a different angle would show this.
-Chris
Ah! so it's the flexible cable that is broken.
I didn't get this from post 1.
Can it not be replaced by a lightweight ribbon cable?
or can it be stripped to bare copper and soldered across.
The joint area then being reinforced by gluing to a piece of plasticard?
Or the end remade by shortening & stripping to bare copper if the crack is close to one end?
Of course, for a tenner you can buy laser cw flexi-cable from Ebay.
New Laser Lens for Meridian CD Player 507.24 - 508.24 - 588 UK | eBay
Even I would not bodge for that price.
I didn't get this from post 1.
Can it not be replaced by a lightweight ribbon cable?
or can it be stripped to bare copper and soldered across.
The joint area then being reinforced by gluing to a piece of plasticard?
Or the end remade by shortening & stripping to bare copper if the crack is close to one end?
Of course, for a tenner you can buy laser cw flexi-cable from Ebay.
New Laser Lens for Meridian CD Player 507.24 - 508.24 - 588 UK | eBay
Even I would not bodge for that price.
Replacing the entire head assy would be the way to go. Often service people can get tunnel vision if they know they need one part. Head assemblies used to be very, very expensive. That's why these things aren't thought of. Past experience.
-Chris
-Chris
"the connector on the servo board that would connect to it is broken"
It is not the flex cable but the white "socket" broken, if I understand it correctly. Such connector can be salvaged from some other broken device.
It is not the flex cable but the white "socket" broken, if I understand it correctly. Such connector can be salvaged from some other broken device.
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