Hi Sonavor,

I was looking at that tread late last week but missed some stuff so I was going back and taking my time reading through it again. Hopefully I don't have to go through all that.

I'm going to start on the MPU resoldering all the connections. Hopefully this will take care of the issue/s. I'm also thinking of soldering the ribbon cable from the MPU directly to the main PCB. cause in reality, these may become bad contacts again in that type of connector. I will only be doing that at the end when I'm finished repairing the table.

I did redo the soldering on all the connectors, so they are really nice good solder joints now.

I will try to post back my results and some pics.

Also, check track continuity, they are very thin and fragile. Sometimes, there is a crack just at the edge of the solder joint and you can't see it, even with a thread counter. Just to make sure.

I had that on a Beogram 6006 I fixed, after an aborted restoration (all the capacitors were new, but the repair hadn't solved the problem).

By the way, I have a BG 8000 that still has all its original components and it works perfectly!

Well, after a few months of my Beogram operation fine and after listening to a few records my BG 8000 platter just stop functioning. The arm moves out to the LP and drops where it's supposed to when the play button is pushed but no platter rotation. If I spin it by hand and try to push play nothing but if i press stop I can see and hear the the motor drive system stopping the platter. so there is power getting there. I suspect the the ribbon cables again. So this weekend I will open up the table again and find/fix the problem. If it does turn out to be the cables again I will remove the hard solder the ribbon cable into the PCB. Don't want to be addressing this issue ever few months or years.

I just got my BO Beogram 8000 fine tuned in and it was playing/sounding amazing! just weird how one LP finished and put another one on the platter and cleaned the needle then pushed play.....nothing! No growling from th motor for start up. Good thing I bought a second one that was in good condition too just for this reason as a back up.

While I'm in there I will fix the relay mute issue, look into that arm dropping speed,  and reconfig the tonearm wires so there is NO common grounding between the return lines so to have ZERO hum. I have so far reduced it to a very low point but with new configuration I will make it balanced to the Balance SUT's. should be dead quiet then.