[TriLUG] cdrom: does pushing the tray in damage them?

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

My last two cdrom drives have demised by the tray not 
staying in (it just pops out again). From where I sit, the 
button is underneath the tray, so I just push the tray in. 
Then the other day I pushed the tray in and it popped back 
out again. On riffling through my hardware stash, I found 
the last cdrom drive with a note "tray won't stay in". So 
this has happened to 2 drives. I only use them very 
occassionally, I'd expect I've had less than 50 insertions 
on the last drive, which might be 2-3yrs old.

Is this just one of those things, or does pushing the tray 
in damage the cdrom?

Thanks Joe

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