"Ken G." wrote in message
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I have 2 of these dual decks that have a ``Onkyo`` name on them but the
insides are all Philips .

On one deck both sides just stop playing after about 5 minutes , disk
spinning and freezes all buttons . power off & back on and it repeats
that .

The second deck the player side only does this but it lasts 4 or 5 songs
.
Both units look like brand new . I have checked both power supplys and
swapped decks around and the problems follow the decks .
Shame .. these are great little units to put vinyl records onto disk.


Have you had a good physical look at the decks ? Just a thought as a friend
of mine bought a couple of these at a show as not working, and had problems
pretty similar to what you are experiencing. On both, there were objects
stuck in the drive that shouldn't have been there. Well, that's not quite
true, they *should* have been there, but only one of them ... For instance,
one of them had a complete duplicate disc clamp jammed in the back of the
deck. Another had a gear that shouldn't have been there, as I recall,
although it's been a few years back now. I felt that they were ones that had
had bits fall in them on the production line, so had failed test and just
been rejected. Philips don't seem to do much with such failures, other than
to sell them on. Another friend of mine works for a company in the next
town, that does nothing but refurb and re-sell Philips stuff, which they buy
by the pallet load, straight from Philips.

Arfa