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Is there even a remote possibility that a slight platter height
adjustment might possibly make this thing work again? Lenny

Most Sonys have built in auto setup, and I'm 99% certain, without going and
digging out the manual, that the 530 does as well. You will need to be armed
with a single layer disc ( typical shop ' demo ' disc ), a standard dual
layer disc, and a standard CD. Running the auto setup, will check and reset
the tracking and focus servos,amongst other things, which will take out any
slack arising from a slightly mis-set turntable height.

Any time a Sony is worked on, and particularly if any deck components have
been replaced, the auto setup should be run as a matter of course.

I think that you press " TITLE " " CLEAR " and " POWER " all together on
the remote, to get into the service mode, then select auto setup, followed
by " all " then accept " Reset Defaults " then follow the onscreen
instructions. If it bombs during any of the setup sequences that follow, you
almost definitely have a defective laser.

You can review the data that's been stored when it's finished. If you
understand hexadecimal notation, if all is well, you should see that most of
the settings are within a digit or two of their centre range. If you see
that the focus offset is well off to one side on either CD or single layer
stored data, assume that the turntable height is significantly wrong.

Arfa