From: bz on
b <reverend_rogers(a)yahoo.com> wrote in
news:673c9f76-2105-4cb0-9c42-33d4e5be34cc(a)z10g2000yqb.googlegroups.com:

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> I had this exact thing earlier this year! I was working on an AIWA
> system which would not read discs. was about to toss it aside when I
> noticed some dirt near the laser . After carefully removing the lens
> there was some kind of dead insect blocking the beam path - removed,
> cleaned up, reassembled and worked fine!
> why it chose precisely the most precision-made heart of the machine to
> live in is beyond me...

More precisely, 'why it chose that spot to die in ... ' :)

Perhaps it was exploring and the owner tried to play something, and it got
zapped by the 'death ray' from the laser.


> -B