CD player repair

(I hope this doesn't upset Jay. I think it's on-topic according to the semi-bogus the ten-year rule, and it's certainly on-topic in the non-mainstream sense - what I'm trying to do is well outside the norm. Except, possibly, for populations like the one on this list. :) I have a Technics SL-PD8 five-disc CD changer. It's been working fine for a long time; in recent months, it's had trouble ejecting the tray (but not, interestingly, retracting it). Then a day or two ago it stopped playing discs at all. I can't even hear the disk spinning up. So I opened it up, and I have been completely unable to make the disc drive motor spin, with or without a CD in place. I've pulled it apart far enough to have the CD transport mechanism out in the open, and it still won't spin. (In the process, I found the stretched belt that was responsible for the weak eject; I dug through my rubber band collection and replaced it, and now the tray eject works fine.) Now, I'm not Tony; I'm not about to rewind the motor or some such. But I was wondering if anyone knows how similar the mechanism is likely to be to a cheap computer CD reader - basically, I'm wondering if I can raid one of my extra CD drives (of which I have several) for parts to resurrect the Technics. I can just open things up and have a look, but if anyone has experience, it could save me some headaches. Any thoughts? /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B