Yes I once packed some porelin figurines with delicate arms and other snappy bits but didn't mark as fragile for that reason and they all arrived without problems!

Can't quite imagine what this is going to look like atm. But certainly interesting! Was the panel really beyond recovering by a pro metal polisher?

Can you not see where this screw might have originated from in my pictures? Have you zoomed in to maximum size? Regards the servo motor I doubt this is faulty. Check the transistors that form the H bridge are ok. If they are then maybe you could check the motor by resistance check or putting the leads to a couple of good aa batteries (e.g. open a remote

Thanks, I am sure there weren't any a couple of years ago when I bought the kit but I may have missed them!

Hi I quickly uploaded some pics that I took - I took many more but unfortunately these are all I could recover from my cameras memory card after my hd suddenly failed! Hopefully they will be fairly usefull! I will take some pics of the underside of the window but as I will have to partially dismantal the player it will be next week now. The pics I show

It is a single piece of plastic, flush on top but is actually angled maybe 15 degrees or more on the oposite side, I suspect designed to bend the image to a more favorable angle - mine also offers a slightly distored and less than perfect image so not sure if this is normal or not. I remember it being slightly clearer as a child but that was 30 years

I look forward to that :) Got to say the service manual really helps with it's fault chart - without that I could imagine being stuck without a paddle with many faults that could spring up in these machines!!!

[quote user="Dillen"]I still haven't understood why people prefer to skip this important step. It keeps me busy, which is fine with me, but I still would have preferred doing the actual refoam jobs rather than repairs to what's left of a failed DIY attempt. It's cheaper too. Martin [/quote] I would love to have shimmed the coils

Ah yes MC 120 I forgot for a minute

It did not make the difference I was hoping for which is why I came to the conclusion my problems were either in the drivers themselves or downstream from the speakers e.g. amplifier. However the highs were definately lifted with more clarity. I did wonder if the material used on the early mids could change charactoristics over the years (maybe more