What is it?
A stepper motor?
Maybe it just needs a little oil???
I oiled a stepper motor in a floppy drive and it worked a little
longer.

I never tore a CD player apart. Seems to me an old turntable with a
needle is much simpler.... Just change the needle yearly and it lasts
forever.
(and they say technology makes life easier).... NOT !!!!

Mark

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On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:50:46 -0400, "RichK" wrote:

Hi,

There are better groups to post it, but little can be helped. It sounds
like the mechanism which moves the laser is not working, the way it should.
The laser head moves from the inner edge of the CD to outer, during play.
If it stops in about the same place, but does not skip, something is
preventing it from moving. Sounds like a "basket case".

RichK

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Not sure where to post this. I have a portable CD player that will
play 5 or 6 songs on a CD, then during the next songs it always stops
in the middle of songs. Sometimes it starts playing (where it left
off), after a few minutes. Other times it just stops and never starts
playing again unless I hit a button. It does not "skip", it just
stops during the song. It's always the 5th or 6th song and all higher
numbers. Is this just an electronic failure, or does the laser need
cleaning (and how)? I never had a CD player do something this weird.