Panasonic DVD RP56 Disk won't open, and I thought this was going to be easy

It was 2 bucks what can I say.

[@jaytender5790]

Hi Dave, what the spare gear is for is to work the mechanism, you glue it on to end of a suitable sized screwdriver and there should be a hole on the outside bottom of the unit. It fits in there and can be used to work the mechanism back and forth, eject the disc tray and such. I used to work on these units for Panasonic in thier factory service center.

[@georgeprice4212]

Something sticky? P?rn? I think we ALL know what the sticky stuff was! 😆

[@salmanrashid6245]

LOL....I was waiting for him to wash his hands and wear gloves!

[@KTHarison-o9980]

​​@@salmanrashid6245... yeah, it's known as vanilla ice cream!....lol😅

[@mmichaelnowell1512]

I have that machine,2001 model Only dvd player I ever bought new $200.00! Excellent machine!😊

[@ErikAndersen-pf5yh]

Your favorite complain menae must be having a field day with the revelation of this sticky four letter word disc 🙂

[@verynoiceroxx542]

Some youngin probably got a little too excited sneaking it into his parent's Panny, made a mess of the disc and you ruined the spindle motor, ya bastard!! Lol

[@Watcher3223]

I remember the predecessor to that generation of Panasonic DVD player you're working on. They used a brushless spindle motor but a single wave laser pickup that wasn't very robust. I remember problems with failing pickups in models like the DVD-A110. Panasonic had to do a lot of warranty work on those machines for dissatisfied customers. Things did get a little better with this design with machines like the DVD-A120 and the DVD-RV30, though you still had a single-wave pickup that kept you from being able to read CD-Rs. And then you had players like this DVD-RP56 and the DVD-RV31. These machines used a decently reliable dual-wave laser pickup that could read CD-Rs as well as other discs, but then Panasonic cut costs elsewhere and used a brushed motor for the spindle. You had to love the motor controller IC failures that tended to happen with these things, too. And what makes this a shame is that the Panasonic players generally had excellent MPEG decoders with great video quality ... which do you no good when the player can't read discs reliably because the laser burns out or the player can't spin up the disc to the needed speed. The only complement I can pay to a Panasonic player of that age ... was that they were better than Samsung-made players of the same age, which isn't saying much. I went with Sony for DVD players ... but even they had their reliability quirks with some models. But, I got a kick out of my friend's reaction with my DVP-S360 (which is long gone). He had some Philips player (Funai OEM) which he did enjoy but it took FOREVER to load a disc. Then he visits me at my place and I load up a DVD on my Sony and it almost instantly loads. He was rather envious of that...

[@craigwhitcher9629]

Another interesting feature of this progressive scan unit was that it had the Faroudja DCDi video processing. Panasonic didn’t pay to license the logo for the machine but the Faroudja chipset is definitely in the machine. I had the RP56 for a short period which I then upgraded to the DVD-CP72 which was the 5-disc changer version with the same chipset. Amazing how far we’ve gone in the last 20 years transitioning from standard definition to 4K HDR video.

[@TD75]

Thanks. Do you have info on the RV65?

[@Watcher3223]

@@TD75 Just that it's very much like the RV31, except it has a 5.1 analog output for Dolby Digital for use with surround sound equipment having discrete 5.1 channel inputs. No 5.1 analog out for DTS, but will put out DTS digitally through the S/PDIF. No progressive scan output.

[@TD75]

@@Watcher3223 I appreciate the info.

[@kjrchannel1480]

I had fun with some of these daughter board types. I would add a small heatsink to the DVD controller because I felt they got hot. I also took the transport from one and made it work in a older Dbrand portable DVD player from Walmart. Once I figured that the controls and signals are almost identical between most cheap players of that era. I am talking about the Funny brand that liked to tarnish the good Magnavox, and Emerson names of old with cheap junk to name some.

[@Shadepariah]

instead of one of those fancy Yamaha CD players, I bought an old blu-ray player with RCA jacks at an estate sale for $10. The CD-R playback is always hit and miss on these.

[@12voltvids]

I have a few bluray with rca jacks. They also have usb ports so can play media files directly. My Sony bluray will play mp3 files on cdr, cdrw, dvdr, dvdrw, bdr and bdre disk. Only has coax digital out bit that is straight into amplifier using the dac in that and it sounds great. 1 25 gig disk with thousands of tracks.

[@Barbarapape]

Another one to go on the pile waiting for a motor or robbed for parts. We never see them at this low price in the UK, i keep away from the sold as spare or repair ones, chances are that any good parts have been removed. DVD / Blu-Ray sales are slowly increasing again, all due to the greed of the online streaming channels charging more and more and making you pay extra to watch them ad-free and with dolby atmos audio.

[@12voltvids]

The big problem is actors demanding higher and higher salaries. I'm shrinking ad revenue from people that skip commercials by recording them or just don't watch network programming everyone moved to streaming but the problem with streaming is the infrastructure required to stream is extremely expensive when you have to set app all these servers because of so many people streaming so the costs go up and of course the advertising now is started on streaming services because the cost of people were paying for subscriptions just were not covering their operating costs. I for one still like physical media such as Blu-ray and I would hate to see it disappear and only be left with streaming because the problem with streaming is movies are not there forever they come and go they move from 1 streaming platform to another and by the time you subscribe to all these streaming platforms you're paying more than cable costs.

[@Barbarapape]

@@TD75 I have a large collection of Laserdiscs, some are still sealed. As long as i have working players i will continue to watch them.

[@Barbarapape]

@@12voltvidsI agree, with physical media you can go back and watch it again. The streaming services such as Amazon prime want you to pay extra for no adverts and Dolby Atmos, then charge you again to rent or buy it, not for me thank you. I don't mind paying for KZbin Premium so at least some of that goes to the content makers. According to HMV the largest retaier in the UK, physical media sales and increasing again that has to be a good sign, and proof that the streaming companies are no longer as popular.

[@enricoself2256]

I have a Panasonic DVD Player of similar vintage using the very same DVD transport: even though back in its days it was quite a high-end model (it reads DVD-Audio, the loser in the battle against SACD) the DVD/CD transport is very flimsy and cheap looking. To save one motor, the sled motor also acts as tray motor and it is pretty noisy (rattling sound which screams cheap). There is a very important adjustment to ensure the discs is rotating perfectly flat and you have to carefully adjust three fine threaded screws to minimise jitter and errors (shown in a service menu). The fine threaded screws are actually screwed into plastic and hence after few adjustments there is a high change to strip the plastic rendering the player inoperable. The spindle motor sits well below the disc spindle with a very long stem thus increasing wear on the bearings. Mine still works fine, but i keep it mostly as an DVD-audio player, not my "everyday" DVD player.

[@WackyT08]

I have 20+ year old MP-3 discs on CD-Rs that still play fine.

[@stevewhite3649]

Yes I like the open reel I used the hiding in VHS at home and it was always good on eigher slow play or extended play I'am sure your right on all of it but I thought They used them for pre edited programming on radio but I agree with you even at the slow speeds the open reels were really decent I still got just a couple and I can't let them go ... They have set so long their is no telling what they would need to bring them back up ...

[@aiko4139]

I had the same issue with a Harman/Kardon HD7400 CD Player. After letting it run a few hours it seems to have fixed itself.

[@briang.7206]

I sometimes see them cheap at our salvation Army stores but their policy is no returns on electronics.

[@Sisko125]

Hmm maybe if you add a few drops of 3 in 1 motor oil on the bearings since it's old, should be able to open that little motor. Who knows they make it cheap and may have bushings in that motor. I remember fixing a portable cd player that the pickup motor wasn't working too well and just added a bit of oil and plugged it to a power source to make it go up/down and voila fixed as new, still works today. Hey for 2$ why not just try it who knows. 😊

[@12voltvids]

I'll play with it some more. Perhaps swap the spindle motor with the sled motor if they are the same.

[@markmarkofkane8167]

I look forward to seeing the update if there is one.

[@12voltvids]

Don't hold your breath on that.

[@elektrokinesis4150]

I had a similar player that wouldn't open due to a bad capacitor, and another one where the rubber on the spindle clamp perished and became super sticky, cleaned off and good as new

[@xeroeffect5745]

I have an idea I’m sure will work. Wack some blu-tac on the caddy and give it a disc balance. Job done. Actually on second thoughts you’d have to hope the blu-tac ends up in the same spot everytime. It’s toast.

[@jasonhandy8442]

The cheapest one I saw in the charity shop was £10 sterling it wasn't as nice as yours

[@hahanah1463]

Uk Charity shops have become big business. Just 5% needs to be donated to charity

[@revolvingtoto007]

i had a problem with a technis sl-pg3 disc tray will open but no close ,,also geardriven ,took me 20minutes to find faulty zenerdiode in powersupply

[@joshhoman]

It is a good idea to sand down the playing surface of that dirty disc just in case someone rummaged through the trash and found it.

[@12voltvids]

Won't play if I snap it in 2 or microwave it for a few seconds.

[@joshhoman]

@@12voltvids That's some creative destruction right there!

[@peter81richardson]

Personally i wouldn't give it house room, i think they look a bit naff, but nice restore job

[@12voltvids]

Its not going in the house. Will go to storage in case I need a part

[@McFixStuff]

You ever worked on the JVC GZ-HD7U? I picked one up for free, and I suspect the power regulator board that controls battery charging and voltage regulation is the issue, as the camera does not display any lights with a known good battery and known good wall charger. Upon insert, the wall adapter will draw about 4 watts for a second, then go back to 0.1w. Would love to get the camera working. Shows no signs of water damage on the inside or outside, I hit all the ribbon cables with de-oxit.

[@12voltvids]

Don't know that model

[@mmichaelnowell1512]

Go to goodwill! Always some around !!!!!

[@Jammerk40]

Could you find a replacement motor from a donor DVD player that craped out!

[@mrjsv4935]

Does it work better with stamped, factory made movie discs? I've got some burned data dvd discs which vibrate, probably somehow unbalanced, but most of them spin smoothly. Worst discs make the whole laptop vibrate so much I can feel it on my hands, but so far they still work, but probably cause premature wear to the spindle motor. Hard drive may not like that kind of vibration either. Recently found MacGyver season 6 dvd box from local flea market for 6 Euros and have been watching it with my dvd player from 2004. Have watched 3 discs now, no problems, I've watched the whole disc, usually 4 episodes at once. Quite enjoyable, haven't watched the Season 6 episodes for a while. Still 3 more discs to go, in fact I'll go watching disc 4 right now. I'm still missing MacGyver seasons 4 and 5, hope to find them at some point to complete the collection.

[@12voltvids]

MacGyver. Cool. Friend of mine was a sound man on that show. He held the Mike, and his name was Mike.

[@m80116]

Clamp was stuck on the disc because it didn't use a felt ring for damping but a non slipping rubber coating and the disc remained inside the unit for a long time. Happened to me on audio units and I believe it can happen on DVD drives as well. As I still cling to my SGS 9 one thing that has proven itself to be very useful for diagnostics is the slow-mo function... It can save me tiresome diagnostics just by showing what happens in the mechanism at a speed I can track with my eyes, no zoom but the resolution is clear enough.

[@12voltvids]

There was something on the disk.

[@m80116]

@@12voltvids oh gosh... they can't do the darn activity with the disc out, can they? Bio hazard alert: some users may f... their own players, literally. Real krazy glue.

[@m80116]

@@TD75 hahaha... good one.

[@stevewhite3649]

I used to use vhs hifi for just music a lot of smart radio stations did that for the excellent quality and long play time and use tapes that they could find everywhere and buy cheap .....

[@12voltvids]

No they didn't. Vhs hifi sound always that the head switch buzz. They may have used it to log their programming to keep for 30 days as per fcc and crtc regulations but even thats a stretch because a reel to reel running on slow mode could easily fit 24 hours on one tape.

[@Jammerk40]

Oh my gosh gross! I don't even want to think what was on that disc! if someone would have hooked that up to a TV say a young teen and pushed play he would get a surprise! Boy thank god that didn't happen!

[@12voltvids]

And then would spend the next 5 years in therapy. Lol.

[@mmichaelnowell1512]

Sometimes you have to clean disc with rubbing alcohol!!! It doesn't skip,but it is picky!!!!!!

[@someonespecial1525]

I feel a spot of oil on the spindle of that motor could had extended its life.

[@12voltvids]

Nope. I shot a video trying that. Didn't work. Have not posted it yet

[@mmichaelnowell1512]

I guess you are starting to see it all!!!!!!😅😅😅😅 Unbelievable!!!!!

[@12voltvids]

Had a guy bring me a bunch of home videos a year or so ago to digitized. I figured he forgot what was on the tapes. His ex wife looked pretty good when she was young. If she wasn't his ex wife she is now after he shows the vacation videos at the family reunion and right in the middle of the shots of showing the resort the money shots.

[@MrMarshmelloBoi]

Second hand? Flea market/CB sales lol 😂

[@KTHarison-o9980]

Hey Dave, in this case why not show us how to replace that particular spindle motor. Now I know you said you weren't sure if you have a replacement on hand but just for once show us how it's done. Find the motor or if you can't order one for the sake educating us. That's not a bad investment. They can't be all that expensive...it's just a tiny motor.

[@12voltvids]

Motor might be only 3.00 but by the time it gets here 50.00 Bloody fedex broker fees, or I have to do the paperwork and drive to the airport to pick up

[@KTHarison-o9980]

​​@@12voltvids...Dave for once can you backup your theory on these fees. I'm scratching my head and wondering if you're being a little eccentric and overly exaggerated about this. 50 bucks on fees?

[@12voltvids]

Go look through my back catalog and you will find videos of me ranting about fed ex, but just for you, I just got another bill I have refused to pay for a certain free item sent to me to demonstrate. I am in canada. When we buy anything in a retail store or say from Amazon we pay sales tax. Everythjng has goods and service tax. Thats right you are paying tax on labour, or anything else that has a fee attached. When anything is shipped in the shipper has to declare what it is worth. As long as its under 20 bucks thete is no tax charged by the post office. Over 20 declared value and 12% tax is added plus a 10 broker fee by post office. Thats the government for you. Fed ex however as well as DHL and ups are private companies. For profit companies. Everything that comes across the border regardless if there is a value or not (broken device, free sample, warranty replacement, rebate cheque) these companies seize the opportunity to charge 25.00 to do the paperwork. That 25.00 is subject to 5% gst so 2.50. Now they are loaning you 2.50 so they change a 10 fee to loan you that money and now we are at 37.50. Of course if there js a declared value then that is subject to 5% gst and 7% post to 12% after the value is converted to Canadian funds. Ordered led back lights last year for a TV. Told the seller to send by post only. Paid them 30usd for usps shipping. Part was 50usd plus 30usd shipping. That worked out to about 130 Canadian. Lazy ass shipper I guess didn't feel like going to post office they sent fed ex. I made 100 labor on that job. 3 weeks later an invoice from fed ex for 47.55 arrived. Tax on the 50 us part and their processing fee. I'm not making this stuff up. I have done videos before on it, thats the profit system though line your pockets while screwing everyone else.

[@KTHarison-o9980]

@12voltvids ... Good God I'm glad I don't live up there in Canada. We don't have those horrible exaggerated fees and taxes. When I send something across state or country here in the states we just pay for the shipping and tax, that's it! No broker fees of any kind or additional labor cost to have normal packages ship here in our country. Anyhow....back to the replacement spindle motor issue...if you do find a spare motor somewhere in your storage can you at least have it in you to show us how to replace it.

[@12voltvids]

​@Vince-o6c you do have sales tax. Same as we do. Its not the government, its the big American shipping companies. Its a free market and because they can charge fees they do. The post office doesn't charge broker fees. Now, I can avoid the broker fees if I set up in advance (if the shipper sends me the tracking info) to broker the item myself. However I have to, upon notice that item has arrived drive to the airport, stand in line and then spend 15 minutes filling out paperwork) thats a good 2 hours out of my day and a bunch of gas to do it. So I just do not use those companies. If someone is sending something to me it comes by post. Indirectly ups and DHL also charge fees, they are lower then fed ex, but the beauty with these companies is they make me pay before it gets delivered. I refuse and someone's broken equipment gets returned to them and they get the return fees.

[@mmichaelnowell1512]

That machine is picky when it comes to cds!

[@Nebbia_affaraccimiei]

LoL thats a good one

[@usernameg5]

My computer dvd drive never opens on first attempt, acts like it's jammed and recloses. Then when i press eject again, opens fine. Does this every time

[@dlarge6502]

I had that with my Blu-ray writer. Put up with it for years till it got worse and took three of four attempts to open! Opened it up, changed the loading belt, problem solved.

[@Samantha-g5h]

Porn disk right in the garbage? LOL. After you completed the video, you watched it!😂

[@SanAntonioNews78]

lol you stole my comment lol. I was going to say something like 5 minutes later you were scrambling through the garbage trying to find the disc

[@12voltvids]

I had an 18 year old once. Matter if fact I still have her and she is over 60 now. She did make an appearance in the airshow video and she still looks as good today. No need for porn when you have the real thing.

[@Samantha-g5h]

@@12voltvids True. But 99% of men would have watched the DVD.

[@Swenser]

You paid 2 dollars too much😂

[@12voltvids]

Aparantly so. So watch up I'm going broke.

[@stevewhite3649]

The porn disc or designed to stick like that so you will have to bring the machine for service then they know your watching porn eigher that or have to get rid of the player and by another one :) just kidding. ....

[@padraiggray5342]

You probably had a look for educational purposes only

[@12voltvids]

Watching 18 year olds getting taken advantage of is not something I am into. Now if it was cougars then I might sneak a peak.

[@revolvingtoto007]

somebody has fucked the dvd player this time 🤣🤣

[@borlibaer]

Handle porn disks with care ☝️ always 😂 (sticky gummy, gluey)

[@12voltvids]

Glove up first.