GazChap wrote:
Something related to an optical disc drive laser?
Yep. It's the belt for the eject mechanism on my minidisk player.
They lose their elasticity or break completely after a few years. Not too difficult to fit with a pair of tweezers, though you do have to take the whole drive unit out of the casing. The whole job takes about 20 minutes.
But they cost £6.55 and I suspect that a 1" diameter standard rubber band might do the job just as well and only cost £3.99 for 200.
Weirdly, if the belt fails, you can still eject a disk if you turn the player upside down, along as the belt hasn't broken completely.