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Originally Posted by MIPS
The deck is mounted with three posts and three hex nuts. As it turns out if I had read the manual this step requires realignment once the deck has been moved, so sure the stop moves freely now but without the specialty jigs I have no way to realign the deck.
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In early 1984, I bought a Pioneer VP-1000 for $50 that had a broken gear in the optical "sled" drive assembly. Once I replaced that, the player worked well except that it had a pretty bad crosstalk problem with Extended Play discs. I talked to the Pioneer service department, and they said it likely needed the "spindle height adjustment" done to fix that problem, but the jig to do that task was a $75 item. $75 then was like $500 to me now, so I never did get it fixed.
I do hope you have success in getting this player to work. In my pile of things to do when I retire is a Magnavision VH-8000 player that also does not recognize/read discs, if I remember right. These early machines have a "cool factor" that makes them much more interesting than all of the look-alike front-load black players from 1985 and later.