Okay, so I was not expecting much as these are famously terrible players but after five years of searching for one that was both in Canada and affordable I finally have a first-generation consumer laserdisc player. July 1979, so it's on of the early Greeneville built units assembled from kits shipped from Holland.
On inspection I'm seeing the usual problems with 45 year old hardware and while it powers on and the laser works the spindle hub sounds like it's missing either a felt pad or rubber ring to prevent squealing and it has no motor speed regulation so just ramps up the motor as fast as it will go.
The tracking motor belt has perished which is fine but while I had asked the seller to prevent the transport from moving (the lock screw was missing) using some bubble wrap wedged in the taser transport path (and they did and it seemed fine so I appreciate their effort) this has been moved more than once before without a lock screw and the gear that meshes with the rack has cheesed out and lost teeth.
Short of laser path issues I don't mind putting a
little bit of maintenance into this but is there a source for those gears? Seems only once in recent history has someone documented their work on these players and alludes that a Sams exists and I have no experience with these players.
10-30-2024, 10:16 AM
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