Andy Cuffe writes:

This high end laser disk player from 1990 plays CDs fine, but when a
LD is inserted, it only spins for a few revolutions before it ejects
it. My first instinct would be to say the optical pickup is bad, but
other LD players I've seen with problems try a lot harder to play
before giving up. I don't think it's the spindle motor because when
it's playing a CD it has plenty of torque (I actually can't slow down
the disc by holding the spindle). The pickup moves freely and the
tilt motor is working. Since I don't have a service manual, I'd like
to hear any ideas before I really dive into it.

So the spindle motor on this one is used for both LDs and CDs?

With only a few revolutions and I assume never getting up to speed, it
can't even know if the LD is valid so sounds like it may be shutting
down due to another problem.

There is also the newsgruop alt.video.laserdisc though they don't do
much in the way of repair there.

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