Where Would One Buy A Fat PS2 Optical Drive From?

[BRIK]

I recently picked up a fat PS2 for the equivilant of six bucks. It boots up okay, but the disk drive has seen better days. One of the cog holders that drives the laser assembly to go up and down has snapped off and the arm that connects the cogs and motor to the same assembly is also cracked. I fixed these up with Araldite last night, but since they're moving parts I don't hold much hope for them.
I would like to install HD Loader, mod chip it and eventually use it for LAN gaming, so it would be awesome to get it going.
In the event of the Araldite not working, where would I buy a replacement drive from? I've had a look around EBay, but that wasn't much help. After that, I'm stumped as to where to try next. Any ideas?

[Fragems]

The systems are relatively cheap so to tell the truth parts are probably going to cost more then buying another system.

[CRTGAMER]

The systems are relatively cheap so to tell the truth parts are probably going to cost more then buying another system.

Concur, just but another Fat PS2.

I would like to install HD Loader, mod chip it and eventually use it for LAN gaming, so it would be awesome to get it going.

The Mod Chip is really not needed if you use HD Loader. For direct hard drive installs of Imports, a Flip Top is less risky work then soldering in a Mod Chip. Once the game is installed it is "Region Free"; PAL will have to be video converted though.

[Fragems]

You could sell the cords and any extra accessories and make your money back. System could also be sold for parts for a few bucks.

Around here the going price for a PS2 is $20-30 at the pawns and $15-20 at flea markets and yard sales.

[BRIK]

To be honest, $6 is an absolutely ridiculous price in Australia; the prices here are way too high. It might be cost effective in other parts of the world just to buy a working unit, but not here.

[Fragems]

Sorry didn't notice you were in Australia . No clue what would be the best way to go about it down under.

Over here to get one online the price would probably be $5-10 for the shipping alone and they would probably want at least $10 if not $20 for the drive. Nobody is selling them as far as I can tell though since most systems being sold for parts have dead disc drives .

You could try buying a system for parts but I would say at least 90% of the listings for AS-IS fat PS2 units are for systems that had the drives die. Plus even in the US they are listed at nutty prices on eBay. The cheapest fat PS2 for parts on eBay right now is $30 shipped .

[Anapan]

I usually order parts from Rich's PSX Parts
http://store.richspsxparts.com/pl2pa.html

[ApolloBoy]

For direct hard drive installs of Imports, a Flip Top is less risky work then soldering in a Mod Chip.

Yeah, but disc swapping sucks ass.

[CRTGAMER]

For direct hard drive installs of Imports, a Flip Top is less risky work then soldering in a Mod Chip.

Once the game is installed it is "Region Free"; PAL will have to be video converted though.

Yeah, but disc swapping sucks ass.

No swapping needed for installed to hard drive games
You only use the flip top to initially install an import to cirmcumvent the region check which goes away after the install. For any direct install disc game, the game disc has to be inserted after HDAdvance/HDLoader prompts for it.

To be honest, $6 is an absolutely ridiculous price in Australia; the prices here are way too high. It might be cost effective in other parts of the world just to buy a working unit, but not here.

Depending on cost of shipping, maybe buy an inexpensive working NTSC unit from the US and pull parts needed over to your PAL PS2.

[BRIK]

For direct hard drive installs of Imports, a Flip Top is less risky work then soldering in a Mod Chip.

Once the game is installed it is "Region Free"; PAL will have to be video converted though.

Yeah, but disc swapping sucks ass.

No swapping needed for installed to hard drive games
You only use the flip top to initially install an import to cirmcumvent the region check which goes away after the install. For any direct install disc game, the game disc has to be inserted after HDAdvance/HDLoader prompts for it.

To be honest, $6 is an absolutely ridiculous price in Australia; the prices here are way too high. It might be cost effective in other parts of the world just to buy a working unit, but not here.

Depending on cost of shipping, maybe buy an inexpensive working NTSC unit from the US and pull parts needed over to your PAL PS2.

I think I might mod chip it anyway. I already have a PS2, so this one would be my one-stop-do-everything multi device.

Importing a NTSC console doesn't actually sound like a half bad idea, as long as I don't get cained on the postage. Ah well, the glue has been sitting for over 24 hours now (which is recommended) so wish me luck.