Thanks, Pete. I'll look into the adjustment as well. Hopefully I'll be able to attempt the cleaning within the next day or two as time permits.
Thanks for the prompt response! Regards, Bill On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Peter Devlin <pdim...@mail.com> wrote: > On 20/04/2015 11:39, "William Tomcanin" <wt8091...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Has anyone manually cleaned the laser lens on their DVD drive? I'm > tempted at > > this point to remove the drive, take it apart and attempt to clean it > manually > > until a replacement arrives. > > > > I understand that the lenses on the original Pioneer 103 DVR drives must > be > > immaculate in order for them to work properly. > > > > Bill > > Hi, > Yes I've done that with many of the optical drives I've had over the > years - alcohol on a cotton bud will usually do the trick for just cleaning > the lens. An associated problem with age is focus drift errors on the lens > - > I had this problem with an Xbox dvd player - fortunately there are screw > adjustments available for the laser lens focus and a fiddle with these > fixed > my problem. I would recommend googling for some kind of tutorial first > though as you need to be able to reverse your chosen adjustment back to > it's > original position if it's the wrong one and before you attempt another. > > Pete > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "G-Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
