Drive no longer pulling in discs

Just looking to see if anyone has any further suggestions on what to do next.

I have an Xbox One that has had an object inserted into the disc drive. I've already opened the disc drive and removed it, it was a flat 2x2" piece of plastic that looks to be packaging from a kids toy.



Long story short, got the drive open and got it out (I work in a shop and have dealt with a number of different disc drives over the years), put the drive back in place and noticed that when I tried to put a disc in it wouldn't slide in at all. Lifted
a bit of the dust cover at the front of the drive and noticed that the "gate" was down.

***Not sure if that is the proper name for that mechanism, but its the one that blocks a second disc from being loaded***

Tried to eject but just got the empty drive chime. Powered it down, unplugged it and did a power drain and tried again, same thing.

Reopened the optical drive and compared the placement of the gears against the placement of gears in videos of these drive being replaced and noticed mine was in the closed position. I gently rolled the gears to put it into the open position and now discs
can slide in just fine.

Closed the drive back up and reassembled the console. Now when I try to slide a disc in it doesn't try to pull the disc in at all, hitting eject only gives me the empty drive chime.

Any ideas?

:)

 

Xbox One Games Won't Start

for discs, hold the disc in the drive until it wants to pull it in. at that point hold a bit longer until you hear a cracking noise. then let go. this is no joke

I have to do it with mine and it works flawlessly. I think there is even a video on youtube.

 

Xbox 1 game drive not responsive

Non responsive disc drive.

Will no longer accept discs after the first one.

Installed Forza 5, took about an hour to install ... doesn't seem reasonable with this tech.

Now will not accept any discs.