2/13/2025: Localization News - Cosmic Fantasy 3-4!Rather earth-shattering news in the PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 community: Cosmic Fantasy 3 & 4 has been officially localized to English by Edia 30 years later for the Switch! Hard to believe! I know their script quality is poor given the 1&2 port but still good to see. 
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Hi!
I'm new to the board, and I have been reading this tread to see what kind of conclusions you might come to. It appears that you have been able to revive your cd-rom unit which is great! There is one place that you could check for gears and shaft for the drive mechanisim. None of these cd-rom unit has anything special about them more then likely they are using standard off the shelf components for the drive assembly. One place that you might want to look at is http://www.sdp-si.com/ Stock Drive Products. They specialize in miniature components, and if you can figure out what kind of gear(s) etc. You might be able to find it there or ask the question.
I'm a Mechanical Designer, and I have used them in the past for work projects. I'm willing to bet they are stock gears. Take a look and see what you find! Just want to give another potential source for the community to utilize!
Regards Everyone!
Efrain
I'm new to the board, and I have been reading this tread to see what kind of conclusions you might come to. It appears that you have been able to revive your cd-rom unit which is great! There is one place that you could check for gears and shaft for the drive mechanisim. None of these cd-rom unit has anything special about them more then likely they are using standard off the shelf components for the drive assembly. One place that you might want to look at is http://www.sdp-si.com/ Stock Drive Products. They specialize in miniature components, and if you can figure out what kind of gear(s) etc. You might be able to find it there or ask the question.
I'm a Mechanical Designer, and I have used them in the past for work projects. I'm willing to bet they are stock gears. Take a look and see what you find! Just want to give another potential source for the community to utilize!
Regards Everyone!
Efrain
Quote from: kid_rondeau on 03/04/2008, 11:18 AMUpdate:
Had a bit of a scare this morning...pressing Run didn't make the CD spin. But I reset my system and tried again, and it worked fine. But this isn't really good enough by my standards...I'd like it to be more robust than that.
I opened it back up, and upon inspecting the mechanics of the gear assembly, I think I may have overdone the graphite a little bit. The simple act of cleaning the gears with it made them spin WAY better.