gulag picture radio

Yes - my main problem is that none of my MD players have optical out. I mostly hvae portables, but my one other home deck is a low end model that doesn't feature optical. That was my whole reason for repairing this unit. In fact I don't care if the unit lasts much longer than the 20 or so discs I want to transfer. but maybe you guys are right. I should just find another deck with optical output. It's just too bad the fix online is so unreliable. I wouldn't want to risk the one of a kind material on these discs I need to transfer over. Thanks for all the help!

I just got one of these players, and it exhibits the grinding noisy problem cited here. I've opened it up, but not done anything. I was about to try the rolled up electrical tape solution (though I was going to try something a bit less temporary of a fix), but after seeing the details here I'm not sure what I should do next. The reason I even care is that this is my only player with digital output. I've got some home made music I'd like to transfer to the computer, and would prefer to do it over a digital link. So what's my best course of action? Thanks for any advice!