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About Octane
Expertise
I can answer questions on Arcade or Home Console repair or modification.

Experience
Repair, rewire, modification, rebuild, restore. (I repair numerous business and private arcade/pinball machines in my area of the state. I partner with a shop that stocks older console based systems and games, I am the one that repairs them back to working order.)

Education/Credentials
Have been building, customizing and repairing all types of arcade games since 2004. I have been repairing and modifying video games since the late 80's. (Most of my knowledge is self learnt and following others that have trailblazed in the industry.)

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Video Game Repair - ps3 tray

Expert: Octane - 11/5/2009

Question
i think my little sister put coins in the disc tray of my ps3 and it says that its loading but it is taking forever and when i pick up my ps3 and kind of lightly shake it i can hear what i think is coins what should i do?

Answer
Gday Euan,

Firstly chop little sisters hands off so she will not be inclined to do it again. (I fondly remember stories with VCR's and toast. LOL)

I would power on the PS3. Press the eject button so the door opens. Then pull the power plug so the tray stays open. Attempt to shake out the coins this way with the door open. Hopefully the coins will just fall out. (Also hope they are just stopping the mechanism from moving properly so thus not reading your disk properly and nothing worse.)

If they don't come out they you are looking at pulling the cover off the PS3 unit and attempting to find out what is rattling.

Once they come out hopefully your unit will work again properly. If not worst case is you might be replacing the blu ray drive.

Octane

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