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ps3 Bluray drive reassembly

  • 27-12-2010 8:43pm
    #1
    n1ght28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭


    Hey,
    Just took apart my 80gb Fat ps3 to clean the lens in the blu-ray drive,

    Got is all apart no bother, except I had left a disc in there,
    took it apart anyway as I though there would be no problems with that,
    Only now when I put the drive back together I can't get a disc in the drive as there is a little white piece of plastic right at the mouth of the drive that looks like it pops up to hold the disc in.
    I can't see a way to get this bit down and have tried my best to reassemble the drive with a disc back in it.

    Any ideas for me?


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  • #2
    F1ngers
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,678 Mod ✭✭✭✭F1ngers


    n1ght28 wrote: »
    Hey,
    Just took apart my 80gb Fat ps3 to clean the lens in the blu-ray drive,

    Got is all apart no bother, except I had left a disc in there,
    took it apart anyway as I though there would be no problems with that,
    Only now when I put the drive back together I can't get a disc in the drive as there is a little white piece of plastic right at the mouth of the drive that looks like it pops up to hold the disc in.
    I can't see a way to get this bit down and have tried my best to reassemble the drive with a disc back in it.

    Any ideas for me?

    Dis-assemble and re-assemble correctly or buy a new blu ray drive.


  • #3
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    The timing of the disc loadiing mechanism is messed up. You need to take it all apart again, & reset the timing of all the wheels & cogs until you can move them by hand.


  • #4
    eddhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭eddhorse


    That happened me before, nasty gear and cog messing.
    Youtube videos are your friend....

    http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=playstation%20blu%20ray%20disassembly&search=Search&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&spell=1


  • #5
    n1ght28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭n1ght28


    thanks lads got the gears back in place and its going nice now,


  • #6
    eddhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭eddhorse


    So did the clean of the blu ray lens fix the problem?


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  • #7
    n1ght28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭n1ght28


    No it didn't unfortunately,
    did this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSYYmYXgVl0

    but it didn't work, might have gotten the lens dirty while i was wrestling with the gears, i'll try again before I splash for a replacement lens,

    Can you clean the lens too much??
    When I shine a bright light on them and look at them with a magnifying glass I can see tiny scratches. Do you think that thats terminal?


  • #8
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    n1ght28 wrote: »
    No it didn't unfortunately,
    did this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSYYmYXgVl0

    but it didn't work, might have gotten the lens dirty while i was wrestling with the gears, i'll try again before I splash for a replacement lens,

    Can you clean the lens too much??
    When I shine a bright light on them and look at them with a magnifying glass I can see tiny scratches. Do you think that thats terminal?

    More likely the laser is burned out, quite common these days.


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