Hi all, I have been into electronics now for about a year, and have learned a lot from this site. Don't replay have the expertise to repair things yet, but I am learning. I have an issue with one of my HIFI Components, a Harman Kardon CDR26 Cd recorder. It has a playback cd drive on the left, and a record unit on the right. The unit on the right works fine, the one on the left fails to read a disc, and comes up with disc error after several attempts to read it. At first it had every sign of a failing Laser, because it gradually became worse. So, I found the play drive on Ebay, bought it, replaced it, and had the exact same problem. I had noticed that The unit would sometime read when it heated up a bit, so while I had it opened I got a hair dryer out and just heated the board in different areas, and found it would read instantly, and play fine so long as the board was warm. So I narrowed it down to this area of the board, but really can't see anything very obvious. I mean it's so sensitive I can hold the dryer 3 feet away for 5 seconds, and it will work! Going to be very hard to locate. I only have a solder station with no special attachments. Closest thing I have is a very small ball tip. There are a lot of surface mount components here I would rather not ouch LOL! Any suggestions would be great! By the way H/K no longer repairs this machine. I took apart all the ribbon cables, and checked the continuity of them with my Fluke, and all were fine.