Just like when you bring your car to the mechanic’s shop, can’t recreate the problem! It’s sure working great now though! Thanks again Trevor for giving this old player a new lease on life.
Grabbed one of these for free at a recycling center I work at, exact same issue. Thanks for the heads up, gonna have to finally order those belt assortments I guess. Although then I'll have no excuse for not fixing up all those 00s microhifi systems with busted tape decks! Was that round or square? Damn my terrible eyesight.
Sorry, I don't track time as I may work on it for a bit then leave it for a day or two. Depends how busy I am. From start to finish I would guess 1 day's work?
It was made by PRB Line Belts and I bought it years ago at MCM Electronics. MCM is no more, they were bought up by Newark. I'm not sure if they still sell these because Newark sort of got out of selling belts It's called Measur-A-Belt II
I took an belt from on old DVD / cd-rom player meant for computers. It was indeed thicker. Around same thickness as Trevor used! And it was around same size, but simply stronger! So it worked like a charm!
I succeeded repairing the cd-tray. Same problem: weak loading and ejection! But man, the built of the whole cd-mechanism / enclosure is really cheaply build! I did not expect that! I expected something more robust! If a compuer component has physical better built quality than an hifi cd-player... Not a good sign!
Just like everything in electronics, they first build them to work so they can get to market. Then they look at how they can build it with the least amount of materials/effort so it still functions and they can reduce costs to maximize profits
Just like when you bring your car to the mechanic’s shop, can’t recreate the problem! It’s sure working great now though!
Thanks again Trevor for giving this old player a new lease on life.
Hi Mike, the player did act up when I tested it but as soon as the camera turns on it behaves, lol
Thanks
@3:57 The belt slipping, dust wad at rear of tray slide or a faulty tray position switch are the 3 things I mostly see.
Grabbed one of these for free at a recycling center I work at, exact same issue. Thanks for the heads up, gonna have to finally order those belt assortments I guess. Although then I'll have no excuse for not fixing up all those 00s microhifi systems with busted tape decks!
Was that round or square? Damn my terrible eyesight.
Most belts are square. I think we did away with round belts in the 1960's
Thanks for sharing...have the same issue....find some tech guru to fix it...
Hello, I have harman kardon cdr 20. Left driver not play. Can you help.
How much time did this repair take you start to finish?
Sorry, I don't track time as I may work on it for a bit then leave it for a day or two. Depends how busy I am. From start to finish I would guess 1 day's work?
Can you sell me a 3.5 belt that fixes the tray for this HD720? I have the exact same problem. LMK how to get one from you. TY
Where did you get the tool to measure the belt? Thanks
It was made by PRB Line Belts and I bought it years ago at MCM Electronics. MCM is no more, they were bought up by Newark. I'm not sure if they still sell these because Newark sort of got out of selling belts
It's called Measur-A-Belt II
I took an belt from on old DVD / cd-rom player meant for computers.
It was indeed thicker. Around same thickness as Trevor used! And it was around same size, but simply stronger! So it worked like a charm!
I succeeded repairing the cd-tray. Same problem: weak loading and ejection!
But man, the built of the whole cd-mechanism / enclosure is really cheaply build! I did not expect that! I expected something more robust!
If a compuer component has physical better built quality than an hifi cd-player... Not a good sign!
Just like everything in electronics, they first build them to work so they can get to market. Then they look at how they can build it with the least amount of materials/effort so it still functions and they can reduce costs to maximize profits
10:00 ... you made my HD730 great again ! And my 1991 HD7300 (I was 17 yo) came back to life TODAY... I LOVE YOU ! 😁
Only METAL Inside the HD7300 18 bits... and no belt... tsss...
Glad to be of help
@@TrevorsBench 😉
I have to change the belt though... but by hand it works !