Hello folks, Some of you may remember I had a problem with my TEAC VRDS-T1 transport which was skipping on the first few tracks of every CD. Well, it went in for repair (New laser required) £108 got it back plugged in (still shagged) HMMM Nice new laser though! Took it back to the shop, so-called enginner could find no faults. It was suggested that some of my CDs were pitted, dirty etc. hence the read errors. BBBUUULLLSHHHITTT!!!. Being an Engineering Graduate I decided to do some research into the problem and found out that the actual mechanism may be slightly lacking in lubrication (ooeerrr) or the tracking gain was a bit out. Anyway went went to Maplin, bought some Silicone grease, applied it to the suspect looking internals and hey presto,,,,, no more skipping CDs. The only problem I have now is that it does not always read the CD on first play. Very oftren I have to eject the CD, press play than it plays fine, but I suspect this is because I fiddled with the "tracking gain" on the digital servo circuit board. I will move it back to the positon it was in before and hopefully this wil sort the initial read problem. Don't trust some of those so called service engineers, they really are assholes. Try to do it your self (If you're out of warranty) Dex
