AA Prima Transport Sticking Problem (solved)

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srdavis2000

I started having some problems last week with my AA Prima transport. I have the older Mk II version with the Philips transport. The door would open fine, but when given the signal to close, it would try but needed a slight budge. I opened it up last night and managed to clean all of the old grease off of the transport tracks with Q-tips doused in LP9 RRL stylus cleaner which is mostly alcohol. I re-lubricated everything with just a touch of Phil's Tenacious oil spread very thinly. The transport is again working flawlessly. The old grease had become pretty gummed up. It looked like a mixture of green grease, dust, dirt, and fuzz.
I think that the root cause of the problem with the transport lubrication becoming gummed up may originate from the heat generated by the tubes which creates air currents. As air rises off of the tubes and out the holes in the cover, the unit is sucking air through any available orifice. There was light dust throughout the unit. I blew most of it out with compressed air. A solid state unit would operate cooler and have much less air flow. The tubes are always on even when the display is off, so there is airflow 24/7. Over time, this unit is going to accumulate more dust I think than a SS unit that runs cooler.
Anyone else with a sticky transport might give this a shot. It was fairly painless.

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Topic - AA Prima Transport Sticking Problem (solved) - srdavis2000 07:52:16 03/02/07 (0)

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