PS3 phat ps2 back compat

[Retroman839]

Not allowing disks to enter the disk drive ..

Removed blue ray drive
Opened the drive and


It has 2 hair pins inside the drive !
🪮👩‍🦳💇‍♂️
Will it work again ?……. Too be
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[Retroman839]

Ok ..
What I found was that …
Screwing the metal case that surrounds the blue ray drive to tight results in the mechanical parts that eject a disc cannot freely move ..
Simply screwing the screws back gently is ok .

I feared the hairpins could have scratched the lazer or
Damaged mechanics of the lenses but looks like I have got lucky ..

Ps2 backwards compatibility ps3 saved
As a bonus this fault must have occurred early on in its life as no dust at all inside the fans ..

 

[Retroman839]

So the hair pins. Why ?


I’m gonna guess it goes like this -

Who owned this ps3 put a game in that they really liked maybe at launch as these were the first ps3 released back in the day …..

This console let them down …
But only at the point of getting a disk out !

So I don’t think it went back to Sony
It must have remained or fault occurred with someone who just kept it.

I would imagine Sony refurbished ps3?

I would have picked this up at a carboot sale .. don’t know where don’t know when I have had it for years in storage .

Some body either successfully retrieved a disk with the hair clips but lost 2 hair clips inside this unit in the process ..

Or a child stuck these inside randomly .

 

[Vorbis]

Or they fell out of your hair into the drive 🤔

 

[Vorbis]

Man bun?

 

[Retroman839]

😅
Nah chop stix in me man bun