CED VideoDisc and Player Discussion

[Glen M]

Hello all. I got my first CED player tonight. I bought it as a spares or repairs item from local classifieds. Given that the person selling it thought it was a laserdisc player I had hoped they simply didn't know what they had but alas it's dead. Plugged it in and nothing happens. Offered a disc caddy and still nothing.

Took the lid off for a quick look and it's very clean inside. No signs of corrosion or damage to the board or its components. From what I can tell there is a small switch that should operate when the caddy is inserted which in turn should drive a motor that lifts the loading tray but as I say nothing happening.

Before I start taking it to bits looking for a solution does anyone have experience with this machine that could give me a few ideas of where to look first.

Apologies if any of my terminology is incorrect.

[Glen M]

OK got it sorted or should I say sort of fixed it. Someone had obviously had it in bits before as the tray mech was out of sync. Sorted that then noticed the belt that drives it was slipping. replaced that with a tighter one and also replaced the belt that controls the cartridge position. It's now loads and works as you would expect but the picture and sound is jumping all over the place. I suspect the needle is worn out see below pic.

[Barry Webb]

Hi I also had this problem with jumping discs all I do is take the disc out of the caddy and clean it with very mild baby shampoo and rinse and dry works for me every time.

[SelectaVision420]