Yup all the is in place, think i figured out the problem. The cd player is already spinning when the arm brings the disc down which is causing it to spin the disc off, instead of the arm placing the disc down first and waiting for cover to come down THEN start spinning. CD player spins as soon as yo...

the swing arm or whatever it's called has no problem grabbing the disc and lowering it but it almost seems like it lets go a milli second before the cover comes down over the carousel

I have no idea bud this is all new to me. Trying to find a local repair guy here in Nelson but i doubt that will happen cause it's such a small town. Not sure what else to do or how to even identify parts

Hey there, I just purchased an Rowe AMI CD100 for a great price, it fires up and initializes no problem. However what it is doing is that when the control arm places the cd on the carousel it usually doesn't grab? or may be misaligned? Usually spits the disc off the carousel or gets it caught under ...