Finally another CD555 got rescued from the dumpster and except from recording to tape, everything works fine. We are going to have a look at the record function later on since I am off for a couple of weeks. I have also replaced the missing radio station indicator. Based on the original I rebuild it with the resin printer and […]
Month: February 2022
Create your own CD-Player around a CDM2
Another idea grow in my mind for a while… the plan to re-develop the faulty uProc board with the microcontrollers of the tape deck and CD-Player. I successfully replaced the tape MCU and added a better error handling and more features but always thought to use the MCU of the CD-Player as it is. However, there are a couple of […]
Replace broken parts of CD tray and buttons
Unfortunately some parts in Markus’s machine are broken and needed a solution. The soft eject gear of the CD tray was broken. The mechanism itself was ok but the brackets to hold it in place got broken. After some thoughts and several tries I came up with a printed bracket that holds the soft eject gear in place. It fits […]
CDM2 repaired
The first thing I liked to repair for Markus’s machine was the CDM2. The disc was not spinning and has not shown any signs of life. To avoid any possibilities of using a failed decoder board I was using my “modified” CD150 which has the connectors outside the case ready to be used with a CD unit for a better […]