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The clicking on the laser is because youre not supposed to move it like that. You need to rotate the shaft to move it, not force the worm gear.

That headphone design, best in my opinion. I went thru so many of them during the late 90s. They felt good and I got sound while still having some clue what was happening around me. Was good for skating around as well.

Your channel has taught me alot, and its great to see all these relics getting the TLC they deserve, keep doing what you do we support you.

Hello mate, I am absolutely binging your channel I love it 😍 i’m a reseller and constantly find myself having to tinker with things to try to get them back to a sellable state, and I must admit when it comes to the soldering, I am a schoolboy who literally makes nothing but a mess! Very satisfying to watch you work. Cheers!

It uses the DAX 01A2 LASER pickup in a CDM-2801AAA mechanism. As in all Sony's optical drives, that potentiometer limits the voltage used in the laser diode. Typically when it stops to reads CD it means the LASER is worn out, by lowering the potentiometer value you can make it read discs again, but can also burn the diode. The biggest problem is sourcing a new pickup or an entire mechanism, I've never been able to find it anywhere.

I STILL have one of these. The LCD died one day while I was in high school (2002!), so I used the motor and laser to fix another late '90s Discman which I still own (and use!).

Once youve taken these apart for testing first thing to do is check that all the motors are working properly by feeding them 3v Even taking that laser ribbon out without soldering the 2 ESD tabs together pretty much ensures you will destroy the laser diode with static discharge. Very much doubt the laser is bad if its reading the cd's TOC, but messing with the laser power variable capacitor without a scope is another way of destroying it.

So I’m a new subscriber who started watching your most current videos. You have a very enjoyable personality and a contagious wittiness about you. With that said, it’s funny and a bit bizarre watching your older videos without your visual comedic presents, you’ve really evolved into a unique and very enjoyable KZfaqr. Also, I apologize for making a joke about your mum Cleaning your room and finding that lost diode that shot across the floor. I’ll leave the humor to you for now on.😳

I always like that Sports motif that the Sony stuff had. Frog design did a good job.

Ok, here it comes ....... My biggest eBay bargain was a Sony CCP 8 tape duplicating machine which three years after purchase someone else was asking £1100 for a less good example (minus it's box) and claimed that it originally cost £6500. The price I payed ? 1 penny ! ! !

I think my grandmother had one of these. I used to use it to listen to Ozzy on CD...lol. She was not impressed. I heard some AIC coming through your headphones. Good stuff! Nice job blowing away the ROI for this purchase!!!

I had one of these and used a cassette adapter for the car Skipped like a bastard but when it worked the sound quality was amazing I love these videos too Thank you

I just purchased a blue/purple version of this SONY SPORTS Discman on Ebay to repair. I paid $18 USD with free shipping. Mine just has some battery leakage around the battery terminals and some dirt and grime inside. After watching this video, I completely disassembled mine and scrubbed everything really well with IPA and after reassembly it works. Thanks for your videos and the inspiration to try my hand at repairing other people's junk, instead of filling up the landfills.

That's a beautiful discman, I had one back in the year 2000, my brother also had one in red color

Had the yellow cassette version, solid build with bass boost, lost it in a house move, wish I still had it.

"It is so retro that it hurts" haha, love it! To see if the laser is doing something you can use a phone camera that can show IR-radiation (most phone cameras will do). You can also use this method at testing IR remote controls. Place the lens of the camera at a few cm above the laser and turn it on. The spot must be very bright visible on the display of the phone. If not, there is something wrong. I know you fixed it however you don't know the previous state of the laser and if had something to do with the condition of the trimpot. It is possible there was a tiny bit of corrosion going on between the wiper and the resistance pad so by wiggle the wiper a little (after some contact cleaner spray) this can disappear. You have to try to put the trimpot back into original setting to discover if it was a laser problem or a trimpot problem. If it was a trimpot problem you can set it back to factory defaults and unstress the laser and extend the life time of the laser. You make nice easy to follow repair videos, you have a new subcriber ;-)

My fav discman from way back was the Panasonic Shockwave metal V.M.S.S. It had the headphones that vibrated from a tiny motor inside to bass.

Awesome repair! Love the subscribe on the LCD :-)

Nice find and fix. Thanks for sharing.

Splendid work, sir.

I have adjusted the pot on several original xbox's back in the day successfully requiring very small incremental turns and checking with a multimeter. luv your video's great job cheers :)

Holy crap I have 4 of these in a box somewhere in my house. Guess I need to find and post them lol. Thanks man!

Another good way to clean off corrosion made from batteries is to use white vinegar. It neutralize the acid in the residue and help removing the cause. It's also usable for cleaning acid from leaking capacitors. All the luck!

1000+ subscribers congratulations!

Glad that worm gear didn't get damaged by dragging the laser up and down on it. I fixed my Dreamcast by using some silicone grease on a very similar looking mechanism.

Brilliant job Steve !!!!!!!!

I was lucky to find magnetic type version of this Walkman surprisingly enough was waterproof and with the same yellow sports design I’ve managed to pick it up for £10 from a car boot sale not working turns out the belts and turned to jelly replace the belts and managed to get £150 for it on eBay so it’s always good to look around for a bargain I recently bought a small mini disc player for £5 off eBay and repaired that ended up being just corrosion buildup on the laser stay safe and look forward to the next one

I cant believe how much these cd players go for, wow.

I still got my Panasonic shockwave 🤘

Awesome choice of testing material. Slightly miffed you didn’t give us your best ‘Man in the box’ though 😂

I totally had this exact disk player as a kid... Unfortunately I remember the battery life being kind of terrible... Might have been caused by the big advance Electronic Skip Protection (ESP). Which prevented the laser from skipping around on the song when you moved around. Prior players were like carrying a laser record player.

I have a similar unit (Sony model # D-FS601) here in the states. It was a x-mas gift from years ago. Mine could use some servicing as the volume knob scratches.

these headphones were the most comfortable ever. I loved them, didnt have the sport version. Loved them almost as much as you and your channel, almost

Amazing find. Lucky man!!!

Top stuff, scored a few discman's cheap as well :)

I loved that subtle "subscribe" moment on the LCD :)

These are great to watch like a electronic jigsaw puzzle

such a throw back seeing this

When CDs were first invented SONY's earliest players had an "error" light that indicated when the playback was encountering an error and using error-correcting codes to fix the problem. We about 1-2Y after these models were released, marketing heard that customers who played discs with any frequency, the error light was staying on constantly, as the CDs were degrading towards failure. The solution? SONY removed the "error" light from their players !!!

nice fix! i have an old MD that stopped working, maybe ill try and fix it as well... hopefully it has the same problem

I knew I recognised the last disc, quick glance and I knew the band instantly. Guess I listened to that one a lot hahaha.

Have you ever considered a collaboration with "Tech Moan"? He had over 100 portable MD players he attempted to fix, but a small number were beyond his expertise. It would be a great colab.

Brilliant! I had one of these back in the day. Not sure exactly when it came out but I got one for Christmas 1998, so at least that old. I think my dad paid close to $200 Canadian for it at the time. It got stolen at school a year later though. I am still bitter about it to this day. I'm the type that keeps tech as long as it still works so I probably would have still had it today if it was working. Best discman and headphones. I went through various others after that but nothing came close in quality, in my opinion. Especially not for headphones. I often wonder where it ended up. Considering splurging on one on ebay now.

the lens cleaning..i polish them dry..also the lens travels on the screw..the bit you were draging against..and disks with minor scratches wont play

I love ebay prices, what someone asks for something isn't always what they're worth, it's what someone is willing to pay, I do the same repairing watches lol

You've just gone up 1 million % in my rating by dropping the Ice Cube CD in there. It was pretty high already, so congrats.

i had a sony cassette walkman in 91 on my 5th birthday and it was yellow and grey. i also had a discman that was silver and then i remember getting the sony minidisc and then ipod was the shit. but personally i love my sony MP3 4gb USB stick as its enough for many tracks and also small and light and compact and can easily fit in ur pocket or what i use it for which is skateboarding rather than carrying a heavy phone or ipod as such.

Excellent choice in music, Layne has the voice of a god.

i owned this one; used it for years. Fucking excellent. literally 30 years ago.

Listening to a full ice cube album is always a pleasure not an endurance.

Another Good Video All The Best.

A fluky fix but a fix is still a fix, Stix. Well done.

Great job love this little CD player. I just got one off eBay and adjusted the pots but still nothing. It poweres on and all so that's fine but is the laser worm drive supposed to seek? It does move if I reset the position and then try to play the disk. Anything else that I may want to concider checking on? Thanks

This is in such great shape I'd bet it was defective from the factory and just never used or returned.

the ones that really makes money are the fully metal case sony discman i bought a broken sony discman D-15 ( the one you really want is the D-250) i fixed it and its works, ive seen prices on ebay of fully working ones for around 455 dollar these are real collector items

you should contact Techmoan, he has a ton of MiniDisk players that need repairing

Heck of a fix. Nice

I had a very similar Sony one in high school. I was smoking back then and used my Marlboro miles to get it free. Edit: Oh no mine was a Panasonic "Shockwave". Same black and yellow. It had clasps on the sides to keep it shut if it dropped.

I had that one as a kid. I need to see if I still have it so I could sell it on ebay.

Love the Alice in Chains. You're the man in the disc... man... Ah nvm.

Sony should have never discontinued CD Walkman there is still a market for them

Try to read burnt CDs, they can be difficult to read on worn CD players, and without the ESP function, which can hide reading problems ^^

99 pence... I would pay that in a heartbeat for the headphones alone!! I had a pair of those on the ear on headband headphones (in black) back in the day and I absolutely loved them!! If I could get another pair in good condition now... Uffff

Loved it !!!!!!!!!!

I cringed at the sound of plastic grinding against the metal worm when you moved the laser assembly.

What did the little trim pot actually adjust? I did not think it was going to work.

350 is the average I could find nice work!

The laser moves a cross the rod when the rod turns 👍

I had one of these when I was 12/13 haha effing awesome!

11:22 cleared my cataracts up

What I didn't understand is do you have to put it all back together after each adjustment of the potentiometer and see if it played? It was unclear why the sweet spot was the sweet spot.

Thank you for not subjecting us to a full Alice in chains album, one or two of their songs overplayed on the radio for the past 20 years really makes me want to vomit. Nice repair also 👌

you see this is just a good example of why buying a broken one it could just be minor problem for this case the screw that adjust the laser just needed to be adjusted to work again.

good job

Disks are great for driveway markers and so cheap that you can nail 20 or more to the tree at the end of the drive for just pennies!

As soon as I heard track 2 I knew which cd 💿 it was immediately

Hi sorry about this going to be a really stupid question probably but the potentiometer how did you know what to set it at did you just find a happy middle ground ? I have one one a radio I recently bought and I didn’t have a clue what it was I take it it controls voltage really sorry complete beginner love your videos

I’ve noticed that you used an other cd for the play test? Maybe the previous cd wasn’t that good?

Had this same one cool

14:02 could tell what album that was even though it was soft, that's Facelift lmao

I like to think Alice in Chains Facelift helped bring it back to life

What did he adjust? Didn't quite understand the ohm part.

I'm still surprised you don't put these into an external 3.5mm external speaker to hear it

The headphones are worth the 99p on their own even if £5 postage

scary's on the wall, scary's on his way!

You having to alter the potentiometer shows the laser is deteriorating. After some time you will have to alter it again and eventually you wont be able to alter it.

You should play Sports (1983) on the Sports Walkman

Haha, bought the CD 1994. wicked

Doesn't move very well as the laser gets forced up and down the worm drive lol

Alice in Chains - Facelift, you bloody legend!

If you zoom back far enough and it's just a hair out of focus it looks like you peeled the fine print sticker off the back and stuck it over the screen. Also +1 for Alice in Chains

Alice in Chains are legendary.

Those ebay postings are the "for sale" price. It's possible nobody will pay that. I always look at the Sold prices.

had to turn up the laser pot about 3 minutes. dont turn it up to much tho.

i have the same cd player and whenever i click any of the buttons, it shows a key on the little screen and doesn’t do anything else. any idea what that could mean?

ye gods i'd be suprized if there were any teath left on the worm drive!

I had a Sony Sports Discman when i was in school back in the 90's and i genuinely felt like the coolest kid in school! I would wander through the hallways listening to Jungle music behaving like Ali G. Those were the day!

Can you clarify what you did? I just saw a tightening of the screw and a clean up.

I seen one on ebay today 20/03/2024 opened never used £399.99