Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: "Manifered H. Wolfe, II" Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: Skipping PSX Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 17:27:45 -0400 Organization: Lobo Electronics Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3586E351.7089@vicon.net> References: <357ad1c6.6697290@news.scea.sony.com> Reply-To: lobo@vicon.net NNTP-Posting-Host: sc30.vicon.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (Win95; I) What happens in the older units is they were poorly lubricated as well as poorly ventilated/cooled. If you have a unit made prior to January '96 or there about and it still works, consider yourself lucky. A good idea for those who have older units is to regularly apply some lithium grease along the rails that the cd lens rides on, add a fan on the side, and DO NOT play it on a carpet! What happens is, either the rails or the tabs that hold the lens on the rails starts to wear and the back end of the lens starts to sag, thus not reading the disc correctly. Turning it upside down, gravity pulls the lens to it's proper position. Sony should have recalled these units, but apparently didn't want to. As a retailer, I hate telling people to turn their playstions upside down because it really upsets them that Sony won't do anything about it other than charge you a fortune to fix it. All you need to do is replace the cd mechanism, but they're very hard to find, especially at a good price. People tell me EB has a very good return policy, though... -- ------------------------------- Manifered H. Wolfe, II lobo@vicon.net Lobo Electronics http://www.vicon.net/~lobo 28 Game Systems, 1000+ cartridges/CD's, 36 Coin-Op's, 1 Pinball Amiga 3000, 24MB, 2GB, 25MHz, Video Toaster 2.0 Atari TT030, 18MB, 200MB, 33MHz, Magic 4/Linux AMD K6 P233, 32MB, 6.4GB, Voodoo Rush, Win95/Linux