Pioneer CLD-V190 (Repair)
This post is about the repair of a Pioneer CLD-V190 laserdisc player, I bought in “working condition”. When plugged in and turned on the player made a very loud clicking noise and the video and audio was subpar (this format was known to have good quality video and audio). For the purposes of this post I wont go into the details of how the player works or its history since that was done on the time line. So first things first, lets tear it apart. It was obvious from the symptoms (so I thought) that there were two issues, one it doesn’t play clearly (so I assumed the laser was misaligned from shipping ) and the annoying clicking noise. Since the easiest fix in my mind was to fix the clicking noise, I chose to look at that first. It was fairly obvious that it was coming from a worm gear assembly attached to the area where the laser mechanism pivots. But that was all that was obvious. From the view of the picture above all I could see was that the gear was spinning and not stopping where it should...
