The Search for the Turbo CD Gear

[VestCunt]

What?  A free gear with every copy of Mysterious Song!?!  Awesome!

[Official Ninja]

Did the gear work in the system?

I just got a Discman D-3 from ebay today.
The Gear in the D-3 Discman is not the same as the gear in the TG-CD. The center hole is slightly too small.
It goes on the shaft in the TGCD unit but the motor can not spin it because it is too tight.
I'm going to bring the gear to work with me tomorrow and see if I can use a small reamer to slightly open the gears hole.

[Official Ninja]

I was able to get the gear from the Discman d-3 to work, but it is not the right size gear. It is close enough to work but the assembly makes lots of noise. The d-3 gear is all around smaller than the one from the tg-cd. Looks like the only real usable part from the d-3 is the motor.

I'm convinced that the warm up issue is the FSxxxxx motor. When I tried the laser sled from my tg-cd in the nec pc-cdrom it would not start still having the warm up issue. So it has nothing to do with the units pcb. I changed the motor with that from the one in the d-3 and it ran fine.

[Game-Tech.US]

I have several units that have broken gears, I don't really know what the root cause was or if any of them have a warm up issue.
What I do know is the gears are busted and I need to replace them and i'm not going to try to salvage a dozen gears from old discmans.
I need a source for NEW gears!
Please don't give up on making us new gears just becuase there are other issues.

[BlueBMW]

I got a quote from one place.  WAY too much...  $75 a gear for 100 or $36 a gear for 500.

[Official Ninja]

Please don't give up on making us new gears just becuase there are other issues.

We haven't given up. Honestly we just haven't done much with it yet. A change in jobs and children have taken most of our time since the New Year. We were talking about it a bit today and hopefully in the coming weeks we will try something.

Plus a huge non-motivator for me is the fact that I don't have a working sled to test the gears in. When I try to use the sled from the TG-CD in my cdr35d the disc sits too low and just rubs on the bottom. Yet the sled from the cdr35-d works excellent in the tg-cd.

**edit Come to think of it, if anyone has a drive that works minus a gear, I'd be willing to buy it, if the price is right. This way I will have my test unit.

[mrchuck999]

Official Ninja,
I am very interested in this gear as well. Depending on the price, I would be willing to buy 10 or more of them. (half would be backups).  I'm sorry I cannot provide you with a drive, but I could test a gear for you and send it back.
I have a known working drive minus the gear.
If you need measurements, I have  a micrometer so I can measure the shaft and gear.
Please keep us posted.