@n80: I appreciate your suggestion but the odds of finding an ARC dealer within 500 miles are pretty low. And what are the odds that any dealer will have a remote for a unit this old?
WANTED: A remote control for my Audio Research CD1.
A leaky battery killed the remote for my ARC CD1 CD player. I tried cleaning the contacts but I think some acid got into the works. Found nothing on eBay or Amazon so here I am, hoping to get lucky.