following a thorough examination I failed to find a break, reflowed the solder connections on all four connection points and now the solenoid energises and the tone arm drops.....dont know which solder joint was responsible 😐

Put everything back into service mode and with a cartridge fitted and a disc on the platter powered it up. The tone arm dropped at the correct place....result, however the tone arm isn't traveling inward as the stylus moves inward, I'm hoping it's nothing more that a slipping belt....will have to put everything back into service position and take a look.....oh and the buzz is ever present

 

 

The click you are hearing is the muting relay and independent of the solenoid.

Mark

Thank you for that information, we now know the muting relay coil is good, I'm going to take a closer look at the tone arm drive motor to ensure all is good mechanically, It could be the belt is slipping but I'm not sure....visually it looked good...if the deck has been dormant for some years it could be a lubrication issue also....following that I will measure the voltage to the motor, it should be possible to check the motor with the drive belt removed to check its response independantly?

Craig

Ok

Back in the service position, motor drive belt looks in good shape with no signs of slipping, nice and taught...no cartridge fitted and play pressed....carriage moves to the drop area, solenoid engages and the tone arm drops....carriage starts to move inward in a quite determined manner...tried stopping ad starting a couple of times and the same thing occurs my view is that it should wait until the aperture allows more light onto the photo sensor and move to decrease said light.....to confirm this I opened up the fully functional deck and carried out the same check...and as expected the tone arm dropped upon reaching the drop area and stayed stationary until I  nudged it forward slightly and it moved inward very slowly, more slowly than the faulty unit.

Therefore my question to the forum (you really Mark) is should I carry out an aperture adjustment...and if so do I really need a testing record as per the service manual....or is it best to wait until I have replaced all old capacitors then check once more before making said adjustments

Best Regards Craig

Yes you should perform that adjustment and no you do not need a test record.

Right...adjustment made and now the carriage starts to move inward when the tone arm is nudged slightly inward.....however we're not out of the woods yet, the carriage moves inward only when nudged but doesn't do so in a sufficient number of steps...I read in one of Rudi's blogs that the motor should turn partially every revolution of the platter, this platter is going around maybe 5 or six times before the motor turns to catch the carriage up and then it starts to turn to many times and the tone arm skates across the disc alarmingly.....it's like the signal to stop the motor turning when the aperture should be closing isn't happening.....I'm suspecting an alignment issue somewhere on the mechanism.....oh joy!

Ok....after almost an entire day chasing my tail in completing various adjustments to the pick up arm and the photo control aperture.....all of which where looking good until I fitted a cartridge and (with P4 plug removed to allow hand control) and tried to rotate the platter and view the drive motor revolutions....everything went to rat shit!....pick up arm skating around randomly...at this point I removed the cartridge and replaced it with the one I fitted to the working 8002....and everything settled down....now its looking good, which is more than can be said for the cartridge....on close inspection neither is in good shape, the functioning one seems to have a loose cantilever despite still funcioning. I think they can be re-tipped but I'm not sure....non the less I will now move onto the third and what is possibly the most challenging of the three.

I’m glad to see you’ve got it working. our comment about every 5 revolutions is incorrect, According to B&O’s calibration procedure, the servo motor shutter should be adjusted to cause the servo motor to run every 2-3 revolutions.

The first picture is definitely a damaged diamond and will do damage to your records which is why you should be diagnosing and testing with a record you don’t care about.

Cheer Mark I have now placed the 3rd and final BG8002 in service position and following a visual inspection of the carriage servo motor belt and confirme everything looked like it was sitting in the right place i pressed play....motor spun, screwed shaft rotated and the pick up arm moved inward for about an inch and stopped dead...I was able to return it back to the start position using >> button. The platter turned and all lamps appeared to be functioning correctly, I repeated the above several times and got the same results....I'm suspecting the optical encoder as per one of Rudi's blogs so will need to get the scope out and look for signals across R10 and R11 I should get the square wave outputs.......assuming all is well?