100 Junk MDs - How many did I get working

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Regularly asked question
Q) Why are there comments from days ago when this video has just gone live today?

[yahnsolo]

A thing to consider is that very very thin dust that comes from jean’s pockets. Especially those thin devices that goes often on pockets. The dust sneaks in the optical assembly, on the prism and make the reading to fail (TOC errors, or erratic play after some lucky attempts).

[nora-bee]

I need to thank you so much for the tip on slapping faulty players! I have a MZ-NE810 that was showing absolutely no signs of life and a couple good whacks completely brought it back to life again! My buddy is alive!!!

[ZGryphon]

Oh hey, I think I had that rectangular Sony in the "working" layout (far right, second row from the top). Not that specific one, obviously, but I owned two MD players back in the day, and I think the first one was one of those. (The second was a very elaborate Sharp player/recorder that never came out officially in the US, which had a clickwheel around the center display like the early iPods. You had one that looked similar, but not quite the same, in the earlier "box o' junk MD players" video.)

The Sharp died of electronic dementia, but the Sony was still working the last time I tried it. No idea where it (or any of the discs I had) might be now--I've moved a couple of times since then and lost track of the lot. Probably in a box upstairs somewhere, which I suspect is the fate of most consumer electronics. It was oddly satisfying to see how many of them you could resurrect.

[catnip]

Long MD videos have become a monthly thing for me now, either new or rewatched old, I hope there's more to come!

[ryanjosef]

i was lucky enough a while ago to find a portable mini disc player/recorder.. it sounds good. also bought an optical cable for it to record . pretty decent. I do have to admit that I have a little envy for the stacks of awesomeness you have there !.

[murraykriner]

Recall seeing these for sale in many places outside the U.S., while traveling in the 90's. They were always rather costly, and many still are if you can find them on an auction site, usually missing the key ingredients necessary for them to work. That kind of explains why so many reached out to you for a proper trouble shot MD Player, since your doing all the work of getting them to operate for them. Great content. Thanks for sharing.

[berkkarsi]

This man now has the biggest Minidisc collection in the UK.

[TheKumaDono]

With the broken ones, it might be nice to take the more aesthetic ones and putting them in a shadow frame for display rather than going into landfill. Of course, if they are destined for the landfill, I would love to buy the broken rabbit one off you!

[cbsboyer]

Having worked at a repair/refurb facility long ago for several years and working on roughly a bazillion CD and DVD drives, cleaning the lens was done because it was on the checklist, but unless there was some gunk obviously stuck on it cleaning the lens did pretty much nothing. The spinning disc creates air movement which will tend to clear loose dust off all by itself. Tuning the power on the laser and the gain on the pickup was far more effective, but not all devices easily allow for that, and turning up the laser power is a stopgap that will work for the present, but failure is inevitable.

[fredbloggs]

“Dad! Have you seen my hairdryer?”...

...”Hang on, is that my Luther Vandross? I’ve been looking for that”.

[Epinardscaramel]

11:02 I wasn’t expecting that and actually laughed out loud! 🤣

[hyzenthlay]

On that HiMD machine you can try and solder some copper wire strands to jump over the problematic section to get the gumstick working again. If it's possible to charge the battery in the player somehow that would be better so as to not to open and close the battery door all the time, which over time would snap the wire you use. If it's used and charged regularly, having a battery in it permanently shouldn't be a leak problem.

Being a HiMD unit it's definitely worth a try, I would definitely try something to fix that issue if it were mine, because it's such a shame for such a nice unit to be unused due to something relatively silly like a faulty battery connection.

A couple of those players sound like they could do with some grease on the gears, wormscrew, and the parts where the transport mechanism slides against. My Victor XM-C11 was giving issues sometimes, till I opened and applied some lithium grease to the moving parts, no problems since. If the laser can move smoothly, it can't read the TOC.

As for not a bad ratio, 60 working for €500 is less than a tenner each!! I'd say you had a good haul!

[moserfugger]

Gotta admit, I would sell at least 20 of the working MDs as some kind of limited edition. If Mister Techmoan would autograph the frontside and put them for auction on ebay, he could make most of the money back.

greetings from germany :-)

[ChrisdeHaan]

I definitely would like a recorder. I have a bunch of sealed minidiscs and a bunch that are recordings of my old radio show. The college radio station I worked at used pro MD recorders.

[FergyA]

You should see if you can take the orange camo shell off the non-working one and put it on the grey working one of the same model!

[LSnium]

I find it crazy how we evolved from these things, into smartphones today, that can do almost anything in pretty much the same size of one of the mini disc players, and those are just for music!

[christervikstrom]

In Sweden we have something called Erikshjälpen where you can donate things that others buy and the money goes to charity. Maybe you have similar things in England. Give them to charity.

[liucyrus]

I guess it might be a good idea to use a weak base (baking powder solution) to neutralise the lemon juice after the cleaning.

[samuelkatherinediozarago]

Important Tip is: You need to Neutralise the Lemon juice with baking soda water after finishing else it will make it worse in the future...
Better option is to use a micro dremel with dental cleanup brush..

[kennethhardcastle]

Oh man, I hope you can switch the orange Camo case with the gray working one there!