CD50 Tray Jamming - looking for ideas

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So I have a CD50 that plays perfectly, but the tray seems to jam between the open/close process and the raising of the CD spindle process.  I have opened it and replaced the belt an added some lithium grease to the gears.  I also swapped out the largest gear, which was worn at the point where the indexing pin moves in and out (I have a few used parts from another broken unit).  I have had it disassembled and reassembled, and the gears still catch and stick at the same transition point.  If I help the gears through that specific point with my finger everything works as expected. My question is this: shy of removing, cleaning, and reinstalling all of the gears, is there another way to diagnose this problem?  Would a slipping belt cause this problem?  If not, something else?
I don’t have the solution, but remembered this video 

Location: Denmark

Yeah, thank you for posting. I like Vince's videos a lot - I used that combined with the service manual to find my way around the inside of the player. There are no visible problems, so I'm guessing at this point that either:
  1. There's too much friction, possibly from old grease.
  2. There is a small site on one of the gears where there is wear, causing that 'catch' I'm experiencing.
Either way, I think complete disassembly to clean is the next course of action.  Again, thanks.
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