Friday, December 24, 2010

Panasonic SA-AK20 stereo laser lens cleaning FAIL

Today I was messing with another dusty/greasy panasonic. Poor thing was working in the kitchen. Grease and dust inside. Great!



Inside the box found dust and more dust. fun thing it is.
Tried to clen hard to reach lens with isopropyl alcohol. Hard to do.
Shot of the not working cd player thing.

removed this thing for better lens access

Better access achieved.

cleaned lens. cleaned some more after. not ideal.
Unit was opened some time ago- found a bit damaged ribbon cable, missing at least 2 unimportant screws, cracked plastic small part in vibration dampened laser cradle assembly. 
This thing won't spin cd. Don't know if it's not detecting it or drive is bad. Dammit. 

Awww, zoomed in after got home and found that lens was very very badly greasy! Photo before cleaning.

After clening few times. dammit. Should zoomed more when working on it. FAIL. Grease streaks, or scratches-  don't know. 
 Yes. Failed cleaning attempt. Retry at a lated date. Me sad :)

Monday, December 13, 2010

Panasonic SA-AK17 stereo laser lens cleaning

Deja vu! Cleaned stereo which was not reading CDs!
Behold my friends 98 or 99 shelf stereo!

Naked stereo 
other side of the box

Top view, there is the problem area.


Under the plastic part hides Lasor! Dusty maybe.

Gave compressed air (lung compressor), isopropyl alcohol treatment to the lens, ready to assemble and test.

5 CD changer stacking device. Next time I will take video of it working.



 

Of course it works again, awesome :) NEEEEXT!