Dorothy on old RCA 'CED' disc

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I have a couple RCA players and need to get one of them working properly one of these days. Both have belt issues; I think I replaced 1 or 2 belts in the one but then figured out the that main drive belt needed replacement as well. One issue I remember is I couldn't get them to play all the way to the end of a side. A few years ago I used a CED player in conjunction with an old TV(10BP4 era) to do a demonstration somewhere. The machine kept acting up but one thing that came out of it was a guy saw it and asked if I wanted some discs. A few months later he showed up in my driveway with a stack around 4' tall! I could be talked out of the players and the whole stack without much trouble.

The one TV shop I cleaned out was an RCA dealer; I was almost done after many months when I found 3 CED players tucked away. One was truly NOS, never opened; the second was his demonstrator. The third was a lemon that he was never able to get working right. I let them all go on ebay. He said for a while he did a brisk business in disc rentals but it dried up pretty quick.