As promised, here's what went wrong: drive mechanism and main motor shorted and ceased plus that also took out some of the components on the servo drive board. So we'd need a total new mechanism and board package to fix it. A drive mechanism alone is $800-850 plus import tax and delivery, then there would be the board and the cost of labour. In short it's a write off so I've sourced a CD3t to replace it. Shame but I guess that's always the risk with buying a used CD player that was probably at least 10 years old.