Nick Robbins, also known as Solderon, is recommended. You may have to drive a bit from London.

I really wish I could find someone from London... I had it repaired once by Clive at Rex Radio but I'm not entirely convinced of the quality of the job he did and he is near impossible to get hold of... 

Still having problems with the return on the 1203... going to open it up again soon and see what I can work out.

In the meantime, these are the two small bits that were kicking about in the 1200 which I assume are the vital parts for the lifting mechanism but have no clue as to where they should go?

I have opened my BG1202 and BG1203 - I can't find anything that looks remotely like those parts.

I don't have a BG1200 here, and to be honest - it's been a few years since I had an actual 1200 in here for service - I don't remember any parts which look like those on the 1200's I serviced. I may be mistaken, of course.

The rectangular metal bit on the right looks like the pivoting cam interrupter from later generation BeoGrams.......

Perhaps they don't even belong to this TT.

Have you opened up the BG1200 and BG1203, and laid them side by side, to see if they have the same mechanics - perhaps a comparison would help you.

Regarding service - there remains only a handful of really COMPETENT vintage B&O technicians around the world. Most of them are well-known right here on these forums. Unless you're really lucky, the odds are that you will NOT find the good tech conveniently located close to you.

So you'll probably have to travel a bit. I have machines sent to me from all over the world. Sometimes the freight is hellishly expensive. But if the customer is OK with that, I'm not going to disappoint him.

In the UK, there are a couple of really good men - maybe not in London - I don't know. The good men I do know, are not in London.  To travel a bit is not a big deal, if your motive is to get the job done absolutely right, the first time, and not pay to have the tech learn on your equipment.

Menahem

I correct my previous post - see the attached picture.

This is of a BG1203 cam wheel - the underside, which is the part you can't see, unless you disassemble it from the chassis.

Those 2 bits of yours are the brass bits which attach to your plastic cam wheel, but if they've been removed, as your's have, it suggests damage to the cam wheel.

They are attached by tiny rivets (do you still have them), and many times the rivet pressure causes cracks in the cam wheel, making it unusable.

So you'll need to remove your plastic cam wheel, and examine the underside.

Thanks for the reply! 

I suspected they were from the cam wheel although I did inspect and couldn't for the life of me work out how and where they connected to it! Might be a job for someone with more time money and experience...

I feel my 1203 is a couple of simple steps away from working perfectly... it only plays in one speaker (have swapped connections and cartridges so its defo something in the wiring of the TT) and the return drags the needle across the record before lifting it but I suspect hat's due to something not quite sitting right inside.

Getting a bit disheartened as I have spent a fair bit of time and money on these already and not really sure I can afford to invest more.

If anyone is interested in a 1200 for spares or repairs drop me an email... (its in great condition apart from the return mechanism!).

If the rivets are gone and/or the cam wheel is cracked, your 1200 is pretty much unusable "as designed". That would require a serviceable cam wheel, and unfortunately the 1200 has a different mechanism to, and is not as plentiful as, the 1202, 1203, 2000, 3000, which all share common parts.

I fear that may be the case!

This is the part if I'm not mistaken ?

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Martin

See how diplomatic Martin is?

He sits there quietly, and waits until everyone's all depressed about a non-repairable part, and then jumps in like a white knight to the rescue.....🤩

Ha, you guys are amazing! So thats the inner wheel? I'm going to look into it all Thursday, and fingers crossed. 

Reg 1203, when the arm gets to the end of the record it feels like its pushing against a spring, gets pushed back across the record, then lifts and returns... if I put less weight on the arm it doesnt even get to the end of the record. I imagine something small is out of place inside- thoughts/suggestions?

And thanks again, really appreciate all the replies.