Brand new (!) CD32 with CD issue; another one crashes

[LoadWB]

I don't think "brand new" and anything Amiga belong in the same sentence :-)  ANYWAY, I piked up a CD32 which came directly from China, supposedly sitting in the warehouse since the day it was manufactured.  Right out of the box it has a problem with reading CDs.  I thought I had read somewhere that this was not an uncommon occurance.

I have another unit I bought a year or so ago without a PSU.  I put it in place of the new unit and it likes to crash randomly, BUT the CD does work!

I'm curious if anyone has a "fix" for the bad CD, other than gutting the good system.

[LoadWB]

They're all original CD32 CDs.  The second (older, crashy) unit reads them all fine.

I have tried gently swabbing the lens with a dab of distilled water and blowing it dry with a gentle blast (oxymoron?) of compressed air.  No joy.

I was hoping to be able to avoid breaking a cherry unit.  I have to realize that a virgin system working right out of the box is probably a pipe dream :-)  After the move in a couple of months I will try making adjustments to the alignment.  If that fails I'll just swap out the CD mechanisms.

[LoadWB]

weirdami wrote:

China has a problem where some factories do 2 runs. One for the company that owns the product, and one for themselves.

In this case I would be apt to chalk it up to a piece of siezed equipment during the liquidation and bankruptcy proceedings.