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[gringo2011]

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I’ve been banned from buying any more. 5 out around the house. Two up in the country, 2 in the roof and a few hidden at work. I feel like some kind of pervert hiding my shame. I’ve actually sold a few and might try to trade up a couple now. It’s got a bit ridiculous.

 

[dudeintheswamp]

Yeah I'm a bit the same, need to clean and set up a few and sell 'em, though I hadn't thought about trading up. Might have a little look into that, cheers

 

[True Believer]

I think I have about 13 - not sure right now. If the wife says anything I ask her how many pairs of shoes she thinks she owns......

 

[StFly]

I decided to do a little bit of a clean out.

A what would be maybe late 80's early 90's Akai hi-fi unit CD-M88 on a AC-M53 tower instance, in any event, spent a good 30min trying to find a tear down to see if I could fix the CD drive failing as it was reading fine just could be a belt, could be a misalignment thing, could be dust, could be a spider for all I knew for why it was spin reading but not back forth ejecting.

Nothing coming, so lets eyeball it instead and as you do when you eyeball things, you try and keep everything you remove in one neat pile to say "this came from there, that goes here" for when you reassemble. It was here that I met snags.

1. Saw a random disc wedged on the inside, so obviously last use decades ago meant something slipped originally. I blame a sister as it was a Human Nature CD with no cover anywhere to speak of. Last seen by me in a now wood shipped entertainment unit side compartment in said 90's.
2. I had all screws on first attempt to reassemble, however could not align the cover back on at the drive door instance as it was a slide in lift up and push down centre instance and I've only two hands to push 2 directions and align and screw whilst trying to chest things in random directions for screwing alignments.
3. Upon what was the third attempt at this as RA blows, I managed to lose two screws. First one was located at my feet as a "I guess when I was moving things around it knocked it" situation.
4. I had to grab a torch to find the other one as it had somehow cleared the entire room I was working in. And had landed on the phillips head pointing downwards, so no bounce occurred as screw metal - floor wood.
5. To get there the screw would have had to go from a pile on the table I was working on, clear 3 chairs, clear myself, clear the unit I was working with and clear a door to another area to do the above.
6. Drive is still buggered as I don't feel much like spamming the open button and forcing the tray open with a butter knife when the unit is powered just to change a disc over feature that has now been enabled.
7. I now need to find boxes to stick it in so I can retire it to my eventual new shed later since still functional just kinda broken and since my nonnas funeral is on cassette tape which does still work along with radio so I can at least make copies and do things with it elsewhere and get a better vinyl player.

Should probably invest in a parts organiser tray if I find more things to tinker with....

 

[Sully111]

I’ve been banned from buying any more. 5 out around the house. Two up in the country, 2 in the roof and a few hidden at work. I feel like some kind of pervert hiding my shame. I’ve actually sold a few and might try to trade up a couple now. It’s got a bit ridiculous.

I'm around 25 including basses.. plus 3 ukes on top of that.

 

[Saintscomemarchingin]

I've got a Didge I've had for over 20 years
Still haven't worked out the circular breathing bit
Although, can make decent enough sounds & it clears out the lungs.

But more likely to hit an intruder over the head with it
than become proficient.

Now im in Cairns, l'll probably end up giving it to an aboriginal on the street.

 

[gringo2011]

I decided to do a little bit of a clean out.

A what would be maybe late 80's early 90's Akai hi-fi unit CD-M88 on a AC-M53 tower instance, in any event, spent a good 30min trying to find a tear down to see if I could fix the CD drive failing as it was reading fine just could be a belt, could be a misalignment thing, could be dust, could be a spider for all I knew for why it was spin reading but not back forth ejecting.

Nothing coming, so lets eyeball it instead and as you do when you eyeball things, you try and keep everything you remove in one neat pile to say "this came from there, that goes here" for when you reassemble. It was here that I met snags.

1. Saw a random disc wedged on the inside, so obviously last use decades ago meant something slipped originally. I blame a sister as it was a Human Nature CD with no cover anywhere to speak of. Last seen by me in a now wood shipped entertainment unit side compartment in said 90's.
2. I had all screws on first attempt to reassemble, however could not align the cover back on at the drive door instance as it was a slide in lift up and push down centre instance and I've only two hands to push 2 directions and align and screw whilst trying to chest things in random directions for screwing alignments.
3. Upon what was the third attempt at this as RA blows, I managed to lose two screws. First one was located at my feet as a "I guess when I was moving things around it knocked it" situation.
4. I had to grab a torch to find the other one as it had somehow cleared the entire room I was working in. And had landed on the phillips head pointing downwards, so no bounce occurred as screw metal - floor wood.
5. To get there the screw would have had to go from a pile on the table I was working on, clear 3 chairs, clear myself, clear the unit I was working with and clear a door to another area to do the above.
6. Drive is still buggered as I don't feel much like spamming the open button and forcing the tray open with a butter knife when the unit is powered just to change a disc over feature that has now been enabled.
7. I now need to find boxes to stick it in so I can retire it to my eventual new shed later since still functional just kinda broken and since my nonnas funeral is on cassette tape which does still work along with radio so I can at least make copies and do things with it elsewhere and get a better vinyl player.

Should probably invest in a parts organiser tray if I find more things to tinker with....

Feels like like I took mushrooms and decided to rebuild a car engine.

 

[gringo2011]

I'm around 25 including basses.. plus 3 ukes on top of that.

Think I need to be single.


There was an exotic Danelectro on marketplace with an amp. I started to think about it.

 

[Sully111]

Think I need to be single.


There was an exotic Danelectro on marketplace with an amp. I started to think about it.

The green one?

To be honest mate I never hid a guitar or lied about it when I was married.

I do think it would be cool to have just one electric, one acoustic and a bass though. If I went that way it would probably be a tele with a bigsby.

 

[Dard Ball Get]

State of Origin pre-game is how I imagine gringo2011 up at the country escape

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

I decided to do a little bit of a clean out.

A what would be maybe late 80's early 90's Akai hi-fi unit CD-M88 on a AC-M53 tower instance, in any event, spent a good 30min trying to find a tear down to see if I could fix the CD drive failing as it was reading fine just could be a belt, could be a misalignment thing, could be dust, could be a spider for all I knew for why it was spin reading but not back forth ejecting.

Nothing coming, so lets eyeball it instead and as you do when you eyeball things, you try and keep everything you remove in one neat pile to say "this came from there, that goes here" for when you reassemble. It was here that I met snags.

1. Saw a random disc wedged on the inside, so obviously last use decades ago meant something slipped originally. I blame a sister as it was a Human Nature CD with no cover anywhere to speak of. Last seen by me in a now wood shipped entertainment unit side compartment in said 90's.
2. I had all screws on first attempt to reassemble, however could not align the cover back on at the drive door instance as it was a slide in lift up and push down centre instance and I've only two hands to push 2 directions and align and screw whilst trying to chest things in random directions for screwing alignments.
3. Upon what was the third attempt at this as RA blows, I managed to lose two screws. First one was located at my feet as a "I guess when I was moving things around it knocked it" situation.
4. I had to grab a torch to find the other one as it had somehow cleared the entire room I was working in. And had landed on the phillips head pointing downwards, so no bounce occurred as screw metal - floor wood.
5. To get there the screw would have had to go from a pile on the table I was working on, clear 3 chairs, clear myself, clear the unit I was working with and clear a door to another area to do the above.
6. Drive is still buggered as I don't feel much like spamming the open button and forcing the tray open with a butter knife when the unit is powered just to change a disc over feature that has now been enabled.
7. I now need to find boxes to stick it in so I can retire it to my eventual new shed later since still functional just kinda broken and since my nonnas funeral is on cassette tape which does still work along with radio so I can at least make copies and do things with it elsewhere and get a better vinyl player.

Should probably invest in a parts organiser tray if I find more things to tinker with....

I worked in the Hi Fi industry, can recommend a repairer depending on location