Panasonic SA-AK44 3in1 CD placer jammed.

[Russell Griffiths]

Greeting group.
Panasonic SA-AK44 3in1 stereo. 5 disc cd player.

The cd tray would not eject.
When unit was dismantled, a cd was found inside,
but this did not seem to be jamming anything.

One of the small discs that separates each cd was
found loose in the cabinet.

I have removed the tray from the machine and am unable to find
any reason for the fault.

I am now unable to reassemle the tray into the assembly with
all the gears etc. in the right places.

Can anyone give me alignment details please?

Thanks,
Russell Griffiths.

 

[James254]

Hi Russell,

Text below was stolen directly from "Television" August 2003 Page 597. Any
mistakes are because of the crappy OCR software I'm using. Hope it helps!

<SNIP!>
Panasonic SA-HT70

I've had two of these DVD players within
a week. This was odd, as I'd never seen
one before -though I've encountered a
number of the brother HT80s.
The first one wouldn 't read DVDs,
though it was fine with CDs. It required a
replacement optical block. This is differ-
ent from the type, which I normally have
in stock, used in the HT80. The replace-
ment was fitted as soon as it arrived. This
restored DVD playing, and a check on the
jitter figure (front panel 'stop' and
remote-control '5') produced a reading of
7.5 per cent, indicating that no further
adjustment was required.
The second player had difficulty closing
its drawer all the way. It stuck at the very
last moment, and would go home fully
only with a good push. This resulted in a
loud click each time. The mechanism is the
same basic five-changer fitted in many
Panasonicrrechnics hi-fi models. It's easy
to recognise, as it holds the discs in free
space at the back, each separated from the
one above and below by a plastic ring.
Timing problems with these decks are
usually limited to the tray itself, and are
easy to correct. Panasonic provides a
spare drive gear, moulded into the top of
the deck's plastic, to assist with mecha-
nism checking. Cut it out and fit it on the
end of a small-gauge hex driver (the jew-
ellers' type is ideal). If you then look
under the deck you will see the edge of
the main drive gear and, by the side of it,
a small hole. This is to locate the tip of
the hex driver. The spare gear will then
mesh with the main drive gear, enabling
this to be turned to put the mechanism
through its paces manually.
Rotate the gear until the tray starts to
open. Pull it all the way out until it butts
up to the plastic clips at either side. Push
the clips outwards to enable the tray to be
withdrawn fully. All that should now be
necessary is to refit the tray correctly. To
do this, push the white rolling rack on the
underside of the tray all the way to the
rear, as far as it will go. Hold it in this
position and slide the tray back on to its
guides, until the rack meets its drive gear
on the main chassis. The next is the
important bit: hold the white rack very
firmly in the all-the-way-back position
and continue to push the tray home, until
it clicks past the clips.
Use your recently-made winding tool
to check that the tray can be wound in and
out smoothly, that the mechanism goes up
and down, and that the disc carrier is able
to slide off the tray. If any of these func-
tions doesn't work correctly, remove the
tray and try again. If the rack moves off
the fully-back position by the tiniest
amount as you push the tray home, the
timing will be off when the tray is refitted
fully.

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Greeting group.
Panasonic SA-AK44 3in1 stereo. 5 disc cd player.

The cd tray would not eject.
When unit was dismantled, a cd was found inside,
but this did not seem to be jamming anything.

One of the small discs that separates each cd was
found loose in the cabinet.

I have removed the tray from the machine and am unable to find
any reason for the fault.

I am now unable to reassemle the tray into the assembly with
all the gears etc. in the right places.

Can anyone give me alignment details please?

Thanks,
Russell Griffiths.

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