You just gotta love products with articial weights in them, because they would “feel cheap” otherwise.
https://movq.de/v/c5dcc25bc9/weight.jpg
Also, that red stuff on those connectors might be glue? To make it harder to disconnect them?
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That’s from a radio / CD-player thingy that someone in my family gave me so that I can try to repair it. (Indeed, some capacitors have blown up. But if that doesn’t fix it, I don’t know what to do. 😅)
There’s nothing on the other side. This really is just a block of metal that acts as a weight.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hm, that might actually be (partially) true. Some external CD drives (without such a weight) start to spin/wiggle when the drive spins up and down … Although I guess that’s not really the case for Audio CDs as they are run at a fixed low RPM value, I think. 🤔
Fuck me sideways, trying to repair stuff that isn’t meant to be repaired is such a pain. So many pointless obstacles.