Page 1 of The Essential X-Men are no longer essential

In December I got a Sony BDP-S185 very cheaply, because it was reconditioned. It's worked fine since, but one thing has always annoyed me, it has always had an annoying vibration which at first went away if I rotated it to the right angle on the stand it sits on.

But that soon didn't work, so eventually I found the solution was a thick softback Marvel comic compilation, The Essential X-Men. Putting that on top of the unit in the right place (which needs careful fine tuning everytime I watch a film) eliminates nearly all of the vibration.

Finally decided to open it up, thing doesn't even use screws to hold the lid on, it's all plastic tabs!

Think I found the problem, a metal shield that sits over the Blu-ray drive itself and is only screwed down on one side with one single screw. It was a tiny bit lose, so I think that was the cause of the vibration noise (with the drive itself being the source).

So I removed the shield, bent the side bits to make it fit tighter, superglued on a tiny bit of heat shrink tubing to the middle so that sits between the drive and the shield to hopefully absorb any remaining vibration, screwed it back down, and now it seems to be silent.

So The Essential X-Men are officially no longer an essential part of my movie watching routine. I might even read it now.


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They need to make these things out of vibranium.







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Rob Shepherd says...
"Think I found the problem, a metal shield that sits over the Blu-ray drive itself and is only screwed down on one side with one single screw. It was a tiny bit lose, so I think that was the cause of the vibration noise (with the drive itself being the source)."
Hopefully not an actual Phony refurb but a "seller refurb" cos that's pretty bad quality control!

Anywhoo, now yer fixed. How ya get on with that Xbox? ;)


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