CDJ GEEK 1 Repairing Pioneer CDJ Jog Wheel Tutorial.

0:09 Problem, bending scratch, pitch bending

Yo, what's up? This is Priyam Jony of the iParty Crew and I'm going to do my first tutorial on YouTube right here. And we're going to fix a CDJ platter. For most CDJs this problem is pretty much the same and it's a little different between a 1000 and an 800 and I don't know if this problem is prevalent on the new 2000s, 900 and 850 but I'm guessing it's the same. But there's a few things when I first did this problem, fixed this problem that's a little different and we're going to go through that. It's kind of like a follow-up response to Daryl75's how to fix the platter problem on a CDJ. On his video he did a CDJ 1000, we're going to do an 800. They're very similar but a couple differences on the ribbon as we're going to see as we open it.

Okay, the problem we're trying to fix here is when you're in vinyl mode, which most DJs use and you're playing and you're pitch bending there's the scratch motion that you normally would have here and what would happen is when you're pitch bending the scratch would actually engage.

Yeah, right there.

1:28 Yep, that's exactly the problem

You're only on the side but it actually engages the scratch backwards when you're only rocking... Yep, that's exactly the problem. And usually this is caused by when there's three springs underneath the splatter and what happens is those strings become compressed and sometimes the scratch function engages when you're only pitch bending and this happens when let's just say when somebody puts a laptop on top of the CDJ. Now, the cool thing about it is that this fix requires no parts you just take the three springs and you stretch them a little bit

And you put the platter a little higher puts the jog wheel a little higher and this problem goes away. So, it's really easy to fix and we're going to show you. So things you're going to need a small Phillips screwdriver and just maybe a towel to set the CDJ on top because what happens is you're going to open this thing in half and it's going to open up and you've just got to make sure this platter is on something soft. Okay, we're going to start by taking the screw off on this side. We're going to turn this upside down and there are screws under here here there there and there so five screws from underneath now that all the screws are out the top face will actually lift and you open it this way and now it looks like this

So next we're going to access everything inside here up next we're going to remove five screws located here here here and here so we can take this plastic ring out that was actually six screws around and once you do that you can actually lift the jog wheel piece up like this and the next thing you have to do is you just gently take this part off and the ring will come off and then this piece will come off basically you just expose this side

So one problem I had that the CDJ-1000 tutorial wasn't clear on which is the difference between the two players is the fact that I don't know how to remove this ribbon so what I did was I just turned this piece upside down and the next thing you have to access are these three these three screws that are connected to the white piece and we're going to remove that up once you've done that this white ring will just come right off

And what it's going to expose are these springs there's these three springs and um the reason why the the reasons for why the platter sticks is because what happens is these springs get too compressed and it engages the vinyl mode um all you gotta do here is stretch the springs a little bit taller than they currently are and that's all it is and this is a comparison of how much I stretched this spring compared to one I haven't stretched yet so just a little bit taller than the other

Afterwards you just replace the springs where they came from and we're going to put this white ring wheels facing up back back like so

Top piece of the platter do it like so and then you take this top ring and you have to snap it back on there are little grooves that you just have to match up to the platter piece then you turn the platter back upside down and keep in mind you gotta take this rib

Put it right under the hook again and basically you gotta lift the top piece

When you reinsert the six screws because this thing is sitting so you just got to kind of lift and bring the six screws back around the ring and just a note make sure that the piece of this plastic actually goes underneath because if you start screwing this isn't underneath it's going to get stuck so it has to actually be underneath the board so we're going to lay this back closed

And then we just return the screws starting with the silver one so here's the test so we're in vinyl mode and when we pitch bend we don't want it to scratch back so let's see looks like this one works pitch bend scratch it moves pitch bend only slows down alright

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