DistortedVision said:The laser on my Arcam DV135 needs replacing. Arcam have quoted me £160 which makes it beyond economical repair. I was wondering if it was feasible to get it repaired by somewhere else at a reasonable cost.
This comes just after I spent £90 getting the laser on my NAD CD playerreplaced which had exactly the same fault. Arcam said the reason it happened is because it had so little useage. Is this true? The NAD had a similar amount of usage.
Many thanks!
Sizzers said:DistortedVision said:The laser on my Arcam DV135 needs replacing. Arcam have quoted me £160 which makes it beyond economical repair. I was wondering if it was feasible to get it repaired by somewhere else at a reasonable cost.
This comes just after I spent £90 getting the laser on my NAD CD playerreplaced which had exactly the same fault. Arcam said the reason it happened is because it had so little useage. Is this true? The NAD had a similar amount of usage.
Many thanks!
I've never heard that one before either!
Andy H said:If it's out of warranty I'd be tempted to try and repair it myself. Open the case to see if you can get any drive model numbers and search it out. (make sure it's unplugged of course)
You never know, it might not be that difficult to replace.
Alears said:Plugs-in? Thats good. AsaTech is a Chinese manufacturer of the mechanism. It probably has a Sanyo laser fitted. I found the website listing laser mechanisms / DACs and will tag it on below. Unfortunately this seems to be for CD players only. Your best bet if you can find the model number (probably WDX-something)then contact someone at Arcam that can point you in the direction of a supplier. Listing can be found at http://www.vasiltech.nm.ru/files/cd-players/CD-Player-DAC-Transport.htm#S
robreid said:I've know laser mechanisms becoming a bit stiff moving and struggles to read the infomation at the start of the disk. I would try buying some very fine oil (like clock oil) clean the metal runners that the laser slides along with the oil on a cotton bud. You could try greasing the worm gear, I've used lithium grease before for that. You could also try cleaning the laser lens with something fine like the cloth to clean glasses, if its already broken you have noting to loose, it will still be £160 for a new mech.
There is a company called grandata that sells spares, I have bought several philips cdm12.4 mechs from which was the laser used in loads of cd players when lots of people said it was obsolete.
If all else fails, sell it on ebay and look for something on offer?
good luck