On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 2:09:52 PM UTC, Arfa Daily wrote:
Anyone got any *practical on-the-bench* skill with this hateful little

do-it-all piece of crap ? I have the misfortune to currently have one in for

repair. I wanted to get down to the CD deck to clean it, so I took out every

cabinet screw that I could find, and the top came loose from the bottom.

After a lot of wiggling and juggling, the top finally came free enough to

see a couple of cables that were stopping it coming any further. I managed

to get a hand in and unplug them. When I finally had the two parts

separated, I found that a very short flexiprint from the display, had come

out of its latched ZIF connector on the upside-down fully shielded board

that's on top of the CD deck, which was, after all this hassle, still buried

so deep as to not be able to be got at.



I then came to see how to get it back together, and I have drawn a complete

blank. I cannot see any way that you can ever get the display flexi back

into its connector. It might just be possible, at a pinch, to get the other

connectors back in place, but I'm even skeptical about this. The cabinet

does not appear to come apart any more than it is now. Although the actual

front is a separate piece of plastic moulding, it is 'heat welded' to the

rest of the cabinet by staked-over pins. I can't even see how the idiot

piece of garbage was assembled in the first place.



Has anyone here got a set of disassembly / re-assembly instructions in a

manual, or ever done one ? I've been at this game for more than 40 years,

and I thought that I had seen every bit of nonsense design that it was

possible to have, but this one has got me totally beat, and I really have no

clue how to move on with it, or what I'm going to tell its owner if I can't

... HELP !! :- |



Arfa

The trick is to remove the usb & h/phone aux socket from the front panel then remove cd player (6 silver screws on the side)tilt back & remove power & data connectors then you can remove the cd player & get access to that bloody little cable... good luck
Shortie