OPPO DVD Tray Repair

Recently, I ran into a bit of trouble where my OPPO DVD player would not open/close the DVD tray. When listening to the player while pushing the open/eject button I could, sometimes, hear a bit of rubber making a stressed sound - like rubber on rubber. That said, I could never recreate the situation consistently as I would sometimes hear a noise but mostly no sound would be made at all. After that, I searched the OPPO support pages but didn’t find any information related to this issue so fired off a quick email explaining the issue to OPPO support and this is what I got back:

1. Disconnect the DVD player’s power cord from the power source for no less than 15 minutes.
2. Ensure that the tray is not sticking to the front of the tray opening by running a small flat object along the entire edge of the tray.
3. Gently shake your DVD unit.
4. Reconnect the power cord.
5. Press Eject. If the tray does not Eject, make any note of any mechanical noises.
6. Press Eject and press in the tray.
7. Press Eject again.

I had disconnected the power before but had never thought of shaking the unit (which, yes, I was surprised to see as an instruction). When shaking the unit, I grabbed the left and right side shook it in both a vertical and horizontal pattern. Upon reconnecting the unit, the DVD tray would open and close again. BTW, I do want to mention that I had upgraded the unit to the latest firmware.

Anyway, I thought I’d pass this along in case anyone was experiencing this issue because I’m not accustomed to shaking my HiFi equipment for solving issues.

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