The transport on my 510 has jammed. Happened when I inserted an MD this evening just when I was feeling all smug that my Sony MD equipment has been working flawlessly (510, R50, E40). When I remove the top from the unit I can see al arge plastic gear on the top back left hand side in the transport cage that is spinning but not moving anything ... it makes a racheting sound as it spins, like gears stripping. I was able to force the MD out with a screw driver. It will not insert. I assume this transport is shot. Is this a common failure mode ... anyone know? I am assuming Sony repair is out of the question. I recall they want a flat $100 to fix? That plus maybe parts will buy a newer unit with something beyond ATRAC 4.5 encoding. The unit is three years old but it has not seen much use. Maybe 40 recordings and 100-200 plays. I want another deck in my hi fi system but here's the rub ... I want the toslink optical digital in and out this deck offers. I don't believe the 330, 440 or the 4x speed DX3 decks offer optical digital out. Buying a high end Sony deck is not something I'm willing to do to obtain this connection. However I am concerned about getting another cheesy tranport as well! Anyone have any suggestions on either repairing this deck or which model to consider for replacement? I should noted that I no longer record from analog (mostly vinyl) with this deck. I now do that with a cd-rw deck (Philips 950) and then digitally dub to the MD deck. Thanks. -jts <Arlington, TX> ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
