Simply put the spring back in its proper place, with the notch going back in between the gear teeth, while holding the gear still. Sometimes, due to shock, the spring may slip underneath the gear and cause a massive tilt misalignment, which will prevent the PS-2 from reading anything. The notch on the top of the spring rests between teeth on the white gear that's situated north of the pickup.
The ribbon harness on the pickup itself, which provides the circuit connections to all parts within the pickup, can be severed by this sharp edge, which will disable the pickup and may be difficult, if not impractical, to repair once this damage has occured.Īfter the lube job is done and the objective lens is cleaned using medical isopropyl alcohol and a Q-tip swab followed by a brief airblast to the lens to blow away any cotton debris left behind, test it and see what happens!Īnother thing that can happen, especially if the PS-2 was ever dropped or subjected to a lot of physical shock, is that the tilt adjustment may have gone out of whack, typically due to a center notched leaf spring that locks the tilt gear on one setting. I work the lube in by moving the pickup back and forth in the traverse sled path a couple of times, BUT (AND THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT WARNING HERE) you should do this when the traverse is elevated up in its closed position! Moving the pickup back and forth while it is tilted down can damage the pickup! Underneath the pickup is a part of the mainboard shielding, which has a sharp edge. I use just enough to form a very thin film of lube on the sleds, but it's very important not to use too much lube as the excess can drip around and cause problems. For the oil, use only a quality household oil or bearing oil never use stuff like WD-40 as it's not viscous enough to be effective and most of the liquid will evaporate after a few days, bringing the problem back to square one.Īnyways, in addition to using the dilluted lube on the bearing and sleds, I use the same stuff on the worm gear as well. If you can't find molytone grease, white lithium grease can be used as a substitute. What I do to help keep lube on the sleds and bearing is mix 1/3 bearing oil with 2/3 molytone, which creates a loose grease which provides a good lube that stays on the bearings. The best fix is to clean out the PS-2 of all dust and then relubricate the aforementioned mechanical components with high quality bearing oil and molytone grease. The buzzing noise is caused when the teeth of the rack gear on the pickup jumps over the grooves it was in and then snaps back down on the next set of grooves on the worm gear over and over again.
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When the PS-2 tries to seek a blue-bottom disc, it tries to move the pickup back and forth on the sled rapidly, but hangs up in the whole process instead because of the bind between the bearings and the sleds due to lack of lubrication, inhibiting free movement. Unlike DVD-ROM, CD-ROM discs require a faster mechanical response from the kicker mechanism to move the pickup back and forth rapidly to assure a fast read. (Although, you never want to use too much lube as that causes problems of its own.) The lube that's on there dries up from the dust exposure and causes the bearings to bind on the sleds, which is why you can have a buzzing PS-2 when reading blue-bottom discs while it may work normally for DVD discs. Sony didn't use enough lube on the traverse pickup sleds and the kicker mechanism to keep it running right. Swap Magic refuses to boot up games from these DVD formats anyway so it didn’t really matter on the bulky PS2.Posted on Saturday, Novem05:31 GMTThe PlayStation 2 suffers from dust and lubrication problems. So getting DVD+R DL to playback was always going to be a no-no. The damn thing died on me and I had to buy a slim one instead but that’s another story for another day.Īnyway, the bulky PS2 that I had wouldn’t read DVD-RW or DVD+RW at all. I used to have a bulky PS2, it wss a v4 I think. And it does read DVD-RW and DVD+RW (albeit in Video mode only). The slim one does have a newer lens in there after all. I always thought that the bulky PS2 was picky about blank media? If anything, I would’ve thought it would be the other way around.
No, I’ve never heard about the slim PS2 being picky about media. We have an older gen ps2, that will play anything we put in it. I thought I remember reading somewhere that the slim ps2 was more picky about reading backup discs - do you know anything about that?