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I purchased a Yamaha CDX-710 CD player at a yard sale.

It has new belts and plays and sounds great, BUT...sometimes a disc
will skip badly.

Since all of my discs are in mint condition, I knew it had to be the
player.

I opened the player up and discovered something.

Take a look at this photo:

http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...123/yamaha.jpg

If I press down gently at the location indicated in the photo, the
skipping stops immediately and the disc plays perfectly. I don't have
to KEEP my finger there -- I simply have to press down on the part
immediately above the center of the spinning disc, and everything
sounds fine.

HERE IS THE WEIRD PART: I have looked VERY CLOSELY at this spot, from
all angles, when I press down. I CANNOT SEE OR FEEL ANY MOVEMENT.
Nothing "clicks" into place or shifts into (or out of) position. I
simply have to touch this spot and the disc no longer skips. Nothing
at all seems to be mis-aligned or out of place.

Sometimes the player plays discs perfectly, and I don't have to touch
anything at all. But other times, when the disc player is skipping,
all I have to do is touch the top of the disc clamp and everything is
fine.

WHAT IS GOING ON? What could possibly be out of place? If something
IS out of place, it surely can't be by much. I can't stress enough
that I cannot see or feel ANYTHING different when the disc is skipping
OR when it has been corrected.

I KNOW THAT I CAN ALWAYS BUY ANOTHER CD PLAYER AND FORGET ABOUT THIS
PROBLEM. But I just want to figure this out.

Any help will be most appreicated. Thanks in advance.............