Thanks... will give it a shot hopefully next weekend (and let's hope te
cats don't decide to play inside the stereo while I've got it apart)

On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 20:15:10 -0500, Mark D. Zacharias wrote:

Most 3-discs Aiwa's go something like this:

Do remove the front lip of the tray. This may require manually turning a
gear from underneath. It's a bit hard to find, but it's there, a white one
with about 1/4 of it showing through a hole in the big black plastic
subchassis, when viewed from underneath the mech.
Remove the countersunk screws at the sides of the chassis, near the front.
Remove the two or three screws at the rear.
Unplug the flat cables which go to the cd section. The smaller one should
probably be unplugged at the main board. The larger one must be unplugged at
the CD board.
You can now lift up the rear of the mech and pull it out towards the rear.

Once you get the mech out, you can remove the tray by pressing the two tabs
at the rear lower edge of the tray and pulling the tray forward out of the
larger mech chassis.

When you look underneath the tray, you'll probably see that the belt is WAY
too large. I've never quite figured this one out - that is, how did it ever
work in the first place? It doesn't seem stretched.

Anyway, you'll need to replace the belt, clean any excess grease from the
pulleys, etc, and maybe replace the flex cable as well, they had lots of
problems with those.

On re-assembly, you'll likely have problems with the mech timing of the
tray. As I recall, there is a triangular arrow on a (blue?) gear which must
point exactly at the 3 o'clock position when you slide the tray in. It may
take a few tries to get it right.

Union Electronics is an Aiwa distributor, 800-648-6657. Maybe they can fax
you a drawing to help order parts.

Whew!


Mark Z.

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