Vintage Montgomery Ward CED Player Repair Part 2

Part 2 in this saga of trying to get the Montgomery ward CED player to work. Ended up tracking down a 2nd unit and used the parts I had installed in the other machine to get this one up and running. Surprisingly the belts on the 2nd unit hadn't turned to goo. They were worn out but still intact. Machine works flawlessly now and I even hooked it up properly.
Links to the parts needed
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You will also need a SCQ4.8 belt for the disk loading
And a FR2.9 belt for the servo motor(the CED magic website says FR3.6 but that's too big)
Instructions on how to carry out the repair
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[@jaykay18]

That's awesome you got it working. Always nice to see the vintage stuff working like that. Especially the sounds the machine makes, yet produces an incredible feat of a full motion, full color image with sound. In total coincidence, the wif and I watched "The Return Of The Pink Panther" last night on the new basement setup.

[@summersky77]

Re: the belts. I restore vintage tape players/recorders. I deal with that issue all the time. I've had similar models of the same vintage, even have belts that have gooed-up in one machine, but not the other. As well, I've have mid-90s vintage belts melt, but belts from the early 80s still going. It has a lot to do with a couple of factors. A) the source and materials used (even different years/batches with the same manufacturer/model) and B) The environment it came from.
If the unit came from somewhere that's typically warm/hot and humid, the belts won't do well. But, if it came from somewhere moderately cool and dry (Like western Canada, for example, had a lot of good luck there), the belts at most may be rotted and dry (usually just loose) and sometimes fall apart, but, rarely goo. Just speaking from my own experience.