[Gareth Magennis]

Help! I usually find out how to take things apart but this has me stumped.

I can't get the loading drawer off a Denon DN D4500, one of those twin CD
player/remote DJ things. The tray was bumped whilst out and has no doubt
jumped a cog or two. Ejecting with power or manually won't work because the
laser assembly fouls the drawer. You can't remove the bridge piece that
carries the CD weight as you usually do because it is part of the main
moulding. I can't see any way of getting this thing apart.



Cheers,


Gareth.

[Geoff]

Gareth Magennis wrote:
Help! I usually find out how to take things apart but this has me
stumped.
I can't get the loading drawer off a Denon DN D4500, one of those
twin CD player/remote DJ things. The tray was bumped whilst out and
has no doubt jumped a cog or two. Ejecting with power or manually
won't work because the laser assembly fouls the drawer. You can't remove
the bridge piece that carries the CD weight as you usually do
because it is part of the main moulding. I can't see any way of
getting this thing apart.

Is it held with a couple of glob of epoxy on the top cross-piece ?

geoff

[Mark D. Zacharias]

Gareth Magennis wrote:
Help! I usually find out how to take things apart but this has me
stumped.
I can't get the loading drawer off a Denon DN D4500, one of those
twin CD player/remote DJ things. The tray was bumped whilst out and
has no doubt jumped a cog or two. Ejecting with power or manually
won't work because the laser assembly fouls the drawer. You can't remove
the bridge piece that carries the CD weight as you usually do
because it is part of the main moulding. I can't see any way of
getting this thing apart.


Cheers,


Gareth.

Usually there is a sort of a tab or two at the rear or under the tray which
you bend or move to one side and slide the tray out the front.

Mark Z.

[Gareth Magennis]

"Mark D. Zacharias" wrote in message
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Gareth Magennis wrote:
Help! I usually find out how to take things apart but this has me
stumped.
I can't get the loading drawer off a Denon DN D4500, one of those
twin CD player/remote DJ things. The tray was bumped whilst out and
has no doubt jumped a cog or two. Ejecting with power or manually
won't work because the laser assembly fouls the drawer. You can't remove
the bridge piece that carries the CD weight as you usually do
because it is part of the main moulding. I can't see any way of
getting this thing apart.


Cheers,


Gareth.

Usually there is a sort of a tab or two at the rear or under the tray
which you bend or move to one side and slide the tray out the front.

Mark Z.



Thanks guys, figured out by dismantling the good one this can't easily be
done. The only way the tray will come off is to slide it fully forward
before bending or moving the tab you mentioned, only it won't slide forward
cos it's fouled by the lens mech. I think the actuator peg that moves the
lens mech up and down had jumped to the wrong side of the groove in the tray
that moves it. I had to force the tray out by jumping cogs (ouch). I guess
this is some sort of cost cutting excersise, a few seconds of labour saved
by not having a separate weight bridge to assemble. And it's not epoxied,
its one complete moulding.


Gareth.

[Gareth Magennis]

Oh, and there is no access to the mech from the bottom because it is covered
by a metal plate which can only be unscrewed via 2 holes in the tray, once
it is fully forward .........



Gareth.

[Karl Uppiano]

"Gareth Magennis" wrote in message
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Oh, and there is no access to the mech from the bottom because it is
covered by a metal plate which can only be unscrewed via 2 holes in the
tray, once it is fully forward .........

I guess they never anticipated *that* failure mode...