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Yeah my SegaCD was screwed since day one. Just opens and closes the drawer all day long, the CD's don't even spin when they go in. They simply get spit out before the thing even tried to read em.
So here is the video before it would spin.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=RrMhK5D36Ys
and here is the video of me fixing the CD drive with a ziptie.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ddGTV6y8MOg
Yep. It works now! To think a CD drive could be fixed with a ziptie!
Jake
Zip ties can fix anything. You'd be surprised at to how many times I've used them in a pinch. I keep some in my car and in my house. :D
looks like the previous owner jammed the CD drive and caused the tab to break. That's the reason most drives have belts instead of gears to open and close it, if anything goes wrong, the belt just slips, though with age it becomes a liability and will usually have to be replaced sooner or later. Its a shame stupid, careless people have to ruin perfectly good electronics for everyone else.
Sweet.
Yeah, zip ties fix anything. Half my car is held together with zip ties right now.
Everyone has a Macgyver part. :D
remind me never to hitch a ride with youQuote:
Originally Posted by 0x15e
yeah, I had to solder 2 traces together on an old Happ Competition Pro NES controller a couple days ago. It has those little toggle switches and one of them was broken (by a previous owner), so since all 3 were the same I just soldered the trace on the "slow" switch so it permanently acts as a start button and moved the good switch to the Fire-Normal-Auto switches for the A and B buttons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Afcs46
i have taken everything apart and got the cd drawer out but now i can get it to line up and go back into the system correctly. can i get some help? when trying this also a little plastic t came out. i don't know where its from. it doesn't look like it was broke i just don't know where it was on the system. any help is appreciated.
I have a genesis 1 with power supply & tv hookup, also a genesis 2 with both cords. Now I just got a Sega CD 2 with no cords. What cords from other systems could i use to test it? Do I just need two sets of genesis 2 cables? I have a bunch of other systems, is there anything that will work?
Sega CD's use the same power supply as Model 1 Genesis consoles. Just confirm polarity first.
This is exactly what the model 1 I bought today is doing. Looks like it may be easy to fix, though.