Pioneer Laser Disc Player

Brilliant =D I am always amazed at how complex the mechanisms are on these, no wonder they were so expensive!

Very few channels make me as excited as this one. One of my main inspirations for getting into repair!

All across the land, little old ladies have noticed your upload, got up to put the kettle on before watching, and are currently saying to themselves "I wonder if he gives himself a shock again in this one".

Hi Mark found your channel a few weeks ago have watched most of your videos, brought back memories of when I worked in the TV repair industry before moving into computer repairs ( Main frames )

That is some nice old tech. I had totally forgotten about them.

Nice to see you back again mark,,all the best Cheyenne 😊

nice to see that there is someone around that is repairing old electric equipment as i have an old xenon 2 tape cd and radio 2 speakers that is looking for repair

I really enjoy the fact that Mark temporarily stores small components in the same place i do....a Gü pudding dish 😂 Top stuff, once again Mark!

Laser disc, never seen one in the wild, and I'm almost fifty years old 😂. Incredible technology, very interesting to see one taken apart and back while again.

Mark: making this ancient player work very well with so many brittle plastic parts. I mean the next time it needs serviced imagine those clips that lock the sections down snapping off to not lock the component to the other piece. Of course I can see Mark making a special clip holder to hold it down. That grease is like 10 times the quality of the original grease which oxidised a bit. You saved it Mark. It is a fine piece of kit as you Brits say.

The way the laser spins to the other side is mesmerising, this could do with a glass lid to show it off!

That was an unexpected treat. :) I still have the Pioneer CLD-D925 in my loft. It was a cinema room loft a couple decades ago. Now full of many tonnes of family stuff. :) It was amazing how many discs were poorly pressed and off balance. It was like having an old twin-tub washing machine on spin dry sometimes. :) Never skipped once though. That laser assembly was awesome at tracking. :)

Great job, Mark. Your close in camera is so good, I feel like I'm getting my hands dirty

You actually helped me! I'd bought some electric contact cleaner, just to have around when, for example, RCA sockets start getting dirty. Well a few months back we bought a Shark vacuum cleaner. I went to do the stairs, and the rotating head ... er ... didn't. I found another YouTube guide about the problem, mainly how to get to the innards of the head, but the guy who did the video discovered a belt had fallen off, and put it back on and it worked. Not my one, the spindle that the belt drove wouldn't turn against the casing. After a bit of messing around, I realised that it wasn't meant to. The fat bit in the middle of the spindle was actually a bearing! By gripping the end that drove the carpet beater with my fingers, and the casing with a pair of pliers, I noticed it moved a tiny bit. At this point my wife told me that she had washed the head! Rust, I thought! Right, so I got the contact cleaner and sprayed it into the bearing, and managed to move it a bit more. Sprayed it again and again until it eventually unjammed and rotated freely. I partly put it back together, put the belt there and turned it on, left it running for a while, and put in a bit more contact cleaner. Now it's working nicely, and if it happens again I know what to do! Had I not been watching some of your videos, I probably wouldn't have had the contact cleaner around. Thanks!!

Finally, a video from Mark's workshop.

I used to work in the workshop in Pioneer, loved those old big buggers

Another blazing success Mark! Well done. Maybe its just me, but I get so anxious when the reassembly bit happens on all the videos; will a plastic mechanical bit snap from old age, will there be 4 screws left over, will the unit get perfectly reassembled only to find there is a small screwdriver missing... You are a Repair Legend and a great sense of humour, Mark! Keep 'em coming!!

I bought and sold these 20 years ago - laserdiscs split over time but loved collecting the films

A good amount of knowledge and some grease and the Laserdisc is fully operational. Good job and c u next time 😊🇩🇰

Very good job. I owned a Panasonic Prism LX-1000U back in the day.. Bought it new for almost a grand USD.. Early 90's. Loved it, but the unit failed about 5 years after I bought it. I may still have it somewhere around the house.. Lol. Keep up the great work.. Love your repair videos!