Change Pickup and Spindle? Is it complicated?

Anyone can help me on this...
To change a Spindle Motor, belt and Optics to the HLD X0 is it possible
with the service manual?
When the optics are installed is it necessary to calibrate?
Anyone has had this experience? I'm affraid to open and make a mess.
I know this might sound crazy to change everything, but since i'm going to
open it, i take the chance for a full service.

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Vitor, unless you are a competent electronics service technician with
the proper tools, jigs, and test equipment, very well acquainted with
tools such as the oscilloscope and frequency generator, and very
comfortable with the inside of LD players, if you open your X0 up, you
are going to have a multi-thousand-Euro piece of junk on your hands,
which you will end up paying someone else to service, at twice or
three times the cost that would have applied before your attempts to
fix it.

If you really want to do this, you should buy 10 or more cheap LD
players of different models and try doing to all of them what you want
to do to the X0. When you succeed in getting one to work properly
afterwards, get 10 more & work on them until you're sure it wasn't a
fluke. Then and only then should you even consider doing anything to
the X0 which requires tweaking potentiometers, not to speak of
replacing whole assemblies (YES you have to calibrate afterwards).
All in all, in your place I would leave it to the "pros" -- and have,
in the case of some players MUCH less expensive than yours, after
trying my hand at working on some "disposable" ones (e.g. $15 LD-660)
and deciding it was worth paying someone to get reliable results.

--publius--


On Dec 18, 11:26 pm, "Laserdisc_machine" <vitor_tomas_... RemoveThis @hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Anyone can help me on this...
> To change a Spindle Motor, belt and Optics to the HLD X0 is it possible
> with the service manual?
> When the optics are installed is it necessary to calibrate?
> Anyone has had this experience? I'm affraid to open and make a mess.
> I know this might sound crazy to change everything, but since i'm going to
> open it, i take the chance for a full service.