To say that it skips on the upper tracks may be inaccurate. What happens is
that the time display disappears along with the sound, but the track number
remains displayed. After a few seconds the time display reappears with the
sound only to have the whole process repeat.


"Dan Dubosky" wrote in message
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I have a Sony Discman CD Compact Player, model D-E301, which skips on the
upper tracks. On a disc with 17 tracks, it starts to skip a little on
track 15 and gets worse on 16 and 17. I've already cleaned the lens with
some alcohol. Any suggestions?

I've never had this thing apart and today I tried getting it apart by
attempting to take out the small Phillips head screws on the bottom, each
of which has an arrow next to it. Seeing the arrows, makes one think that
these screws are removable, but I cannot remove them. Are they glued in?

Thanks,
Dan