"dave" nospam wrote in message
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Hey Afra,

You may have me there. I've only repaired two CD changers. One Yamaha
had a hairline crack on the stepper motor gear that caused it to skip
intermittently. One Denon did have bad tray sensor switches. It had a
hard time loading disks because of it.

But my point was more to do with the way some things are blanketly
diagnosed. I have much more tape machine background. I don't know how
many times a lay person would hand me a bad tape machine and tell me it
probably just needs the heads cleaned. I'd be like "sure I'll clean the
heads for you. How about I fix it after that?"

DaveL



Ok Dave, fair enough. I tend to pitch replies at the level of expertise that
I perceive the poster to have in the field. Anyone who knows me on here
would, I'm sure, back me up that I am never one to issue a " blanket fix "
statement. I always try to offer considered and practical advice on specific
problems that I know on specific equipment, or if I am offering more general
advice, it will be based on similar problems that I've had over the 35 or so
years that I've been mending this stuff, and the measurements and
observations that are most likely to get you to a fix. I was only brief on
this one, because that was all that I felt I needed to add to "b's"
originally brief, and eminently valid response to this problem on this
particular model.

Arfa