HI,

the grill is held in place by a tab at the lower edge in the middle. With the unit on its back, you'll see the cutout for the tab in the middle.  The grill needs to move up and away to clear the tab, then you slide the grill out the bottom.  It will be very tight and will not want to come out, but will if you are patient and have cleared the lower tab properly. 

Bill Briscoe wrote:

HI,

the grill is held in place by a tab at the lower edge in the middle. With the unit on its back, you'll see the cutout for the tab in the middle.  The grill needs to move up and away to clear the tab, then you slide the grill out the bottom.  It will be very tight and will not want to come out, but will if you are patient and have cleared the lower tab properly. 

Thank you Bill,

I think I've seen that tab. I'll try to play with it and keep you informed.

So, I've been playing with that tab and as Bill said "It's very tight and don't not want to come out".
At some point I was really afraid to dent or bend the grid so I gave up.

I've been cleaning the littles holes one by one with a lupe, a needle and a vacuum cleaner and sweep the whole grid with a clothe dampened in alcohol, except for the speaker area. It look like clean. 

Now waiting next week to see if it work!

Thank you.

You can check this :

/forum/general-discussion-and-questions/beosound3-keypad-problem#post-1970554

Pictures say more ....

http://mgrigaut.free.fr/DocPublic/BeoSound3/BOSound3.htm

 

 

Un grand Merci Beozip !

I'm stuck at step 2. I'll try again later if the unit is defective.
So far I dont want to dent a pretty much clean unit if any chance it's working just for some microscopic breadcrumbs.

When collecting it, they were three and I carefully inspect them to choose the best one, that would be a shame to ruin it now!

I'll keep you posted.

When it all goes wrong, and it won't work once it's been apart....may I suggest utilising it in other ways......like mine, still working had no issues since I removed all the internals.

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Good afternoon guys!

Thanks to your help I managed to remove the front grill of the Beosound 3.

Today I also get a power supply, so while waiting for answer on the Beogram thread I start toplay with the radio.

Thanks to CB, I already knew the keypad was to responsive or so little…

After removing the grill and disconnecting the little ribbon cable and spring I could lift the keypad.

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I followed the instructions on the forum and generously sprayed it with contact cleaner. But it didn't change anything.

Then dead for dead I tried the other solution commented in this forum too.

I heated the keypad with an hairdryer for 1-2 minutes and start to peel the top panel foil with a thin blade.
Proceeding with caution and little by little and trying to not cut the plastic foil with the electric tracks it can be done quite easily.
You need to peel it with care to not bend or dent the top foil sometimes heating it again.
I peeled/stick back the top foil numerous times in my attempt and it did not broke or bent.

Once removed you have the thin foil with the buttons:
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And the top plate base, with the plastic foil and the black plastic hook underneath

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I cleaned all the button cells with alcohol and it was obvious they were dirty: you can see in the top picture that the two buttons (2 lines in a circle) around the aerial hole are clean where the other button have a brownish disc around. The volume touch pad was generously wiped too.

You have to clean the discs where the button are and also the black squares which I believe, do some sort of contact for the touch function.

I cleaned the thin foil bottom too where they need to contact the printed circuitry.

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I didnt wipe all the glue because I'll need it to assemble the two part of the top panel together. The tricky part is then to make the cells very clean without smudging the glue around.

I place it all together (with no obvious traces of the opening) and powered up the BS3.

I was able to recover like 70% of the touch function. I can't say if its because the cells are not clean enough or something was damaged in the process.
Some functions still respond erratically and tracks on SD card keep skipping without even starting. I dont know if its because a "stuck contact" or anything else. The touchpad also seems to have become a force-touchpad where you need to press a little for it to register the control.

I may try to clean all the foil deeply, removing all the old glue but i need to find a way to sick the foil to the base in a non permanent but steady way.

Also need to investigate that SD card problem. For tonight I can set the time, power on and off the device, navigate stations and set the volume… All is needed is a little patience or "tour-de-main"!

Hope this helps. 

Hi alls, it's me again !

After a night, which give the panel what my impatience was unable to give: time to dry! the panel is fully functional again.
I could also navigate into SD cards as expected.

Now I need to find a good substitute for the wall bracket!

Thanks to all who helped or followed and hope it will help revive lots of Beosound 3 !