CED VideoDisc and Player Discussion

[bradn]

Just registered for the forum and thought I'd say hi. This website has been an amazing source of info since I first stumbled upon the strange discs at an antique store. Somehow I missed that there was a forum on here until now. I finally found a player at a thrift store and I'm hoping to fix it up again. It's an SJT-400. It has the famous "goo belt" on the drive motor so if anyone can tell me the best place to find one, that would be helpful.

Looks like an interesting forum. I'm glad to see it's still active! CED collectors seem to be a very select group.

[jsdspif]

if you go here http://www.cedmagic.com/selectavision.html (which I guess I'd call the home page?) you can then click on "products" (may have to scroll down a hair) it will explain the process for obtaining free belts. That is an excellent service but it sometimes can take a while to get the belts. maybe 3 or 4 weeks??? That page also lists the belt you need (SBC 3.6). I believe I have bought belts on ebay. http://cedatum.com/ is also an excellent source for almost any CED service/parts etc. and they would have your belt.
I guess I'd consider the sjt400 the top of the line, so you got a nice unit. I would suggest reading all you can on the subject of CED players.
This is a link to go to to download the service manual
http://manuals.lddb.com/CED_Players/

[bradn]

Perfect! Thanks for the links and everything. I found the unit at a thrift store for $9 so I figured a little fix up would be worth it. How much do those generally go for?

[jsdspif]

I'd say you got one heck of a bargain and that's a major understatement in my opinion. You could check the completed listings on ebay but properly working and restored and that would probably also mean putting in real switches for the controls maybe about $300 if you got 2 or 3 people bidding against one another. But you have to take into consideration the cartridge probably needs rebuilt or repaired. Rebuild would be about $50 when you include postage there and back. If you also send him the front panel to install real mechanical switches that would also run somewhere around $50 when you figure in shipping. If you buy the belt for it another $5 and if nothing else is wrong with it your all set. I wouldn't be surprised if a thing inside called the "third reduction gear" is broke. So that would be another $10 or so. So when you think of all that if you were lucky enough to get $300 for it (I might be high on that) you will have spent quite a bit of money and time. I'm attempting to at some point sell some of my units restored but haven't got any restored yet. I enjoy working on them but I've yet to actually just sit and watch a complete movie. I've got 4 players now dis-assembled and just had their cartridges rebuilt/repaired/cleaned.

[Dude111]

Welcome ashore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!