Any skipping issues with the Koala tube CD player?

Thanks for your message Zd542. I found that it was not due to the remote (testing after removing the batteries of the remote).
I am not a person who can even do soldering, if that's needed; replacing the transport by myself seems close to impossible.

Can't Hudson Audio in NJ help you? Call Tom Hills.

One very common reason a CD player will skip is the laser sled runs into a piece of the factory lubricant that has dried up and hardened on the rails the laser travels on

When the sled hits the dry spot it stalls briefly losing lock with the CD data stream and skipping until it can move past the dry spot and regain lock on the CD’s info

If you can see the rails ... wipe them clean and apply a lite coat of white lithium
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I wasn't suggesting that you soldier anything. If that's the case, have someone else do it. I only meant to change it if it has a connector that plugs into the board.

Thanks a lot for your suggestion, Lindisfarne. Actually, Tom Hills of Hudson Audio, NJ had this CDP for some weeks in his shop, he said "the player is not skipping, if it will skip in the future, change the transport," I got it back to (IL) and that affair did cost me $254, including the shipping back-and-forth. The next day, it was skipping again.