On 1/06/2017 10:35 AM, Phil Allison wrote:
amdx wrote:

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I still have a Magnavox (NAP) FD 1040 that I bought in 1984, not quite
as old as yours.
I used it for years and then it quit working, I couldn't locate the
problem. I worked for an NAP authorized service center at the time and
even calling tech support didn't lead to a repair.
So I sent it to the NAP factory service center for repair. They had it
for well over a month and returned it saying they could not fix the problem.
I mentioned the situation to one of our other techs, he said, "let
me take a look at it" he put a wire through all the
vias and resoldered them.
He gave me back a working CD Player!



** That is a nasty and pretty rare fault.

I've had to do the same only twice ever.

Few techs would even think of it.


.... Phil


**Not really. The Magnavox was identical the early Philips/Marantz units
and was built in Belgium. Those whacky Belgians could have learned a
great deal from Sony about how to make decent PCBs. The lasers were
great, but the PCBs were poorly assembled.

--
Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au