Obviously clean the lens if you have not done so.
Also, recent vintage Panasonics use a wormscrew drive for the pickup. The
tolerances are tight, and the least bit of hair or carpet fiber will tend to
jam them up. Yours could be in a borderline mech jamming condition involving
the wormscrew (sled) drive.


Mark Z.



"Rainer F. Daltrop" wrote in message
...
Hi Sam

In general it is a short distance skip as if it would jump from one groove
to the immediate neighbor without delay. Most of the time this skip will
cause a repeat sometimes an advance. The best analogy would perhaps be
that
of an old turntable skipping on a slightly scratched record but without
going into looped repeat.
The second sort of skips is does covers the same short distance as said
above but incorporates a slight delay of about half a second or so. Or
speaking in terms of ancient turntables; it seems like someone lifts the
pickup for the fraction of a second off the record and puts it back down.

-Rainer

"Sam Goldwasser" wrote

What type of skipping is it? Short distance, long distance, or just
a repeat or dropout?

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