Rebuilt laser any good?


My Theta Data Basic II transport worked perfectly for 3.5 years after I got it but recently started skipping. The nice Theta guy says a laser rebuild runs about $400 and offers about 95% of the original performance. Search of the A-gon database shows others have already been here. Does anyone care to say how your repair results affected performance?
rockvirgo
The Theta Data Basic II does not use a pioneer transport. It is a Philips CDM-9 Pro.
The nice Theta guy's 95% was in response to the fact that the CDM-9 pro is no longer available. Has anyone else been there, done that?