Thank you everyone for your input.

I'll give everything a try.

Andrew

Hi all,

I've decided before sending the units anywhere, and as I am usually quite lucky with do it yourself repairs, that I would try to do a thourough cleaning on the amplifier. Does anyone have any tips on taking the top off, anything to watch out for. I was lucky that Freddy told me about the tuning string on the tuner. Do I have to worry about anything like this on the amp?

Cheers

Andrew

The service manual is on site - it is a good one! It is not difficult to get the top off though!

Success,

I removed the cover of the amplifier and surprise surprise, everything was quite clean. Please don't cringe on what you will read next.

I got out a can of naptha based contact cleaner, and gave all of the pots. and switches, and actually anything that moved a liberal spraying and moved everything around quite a bit. After a week of drying out, I finally had some time tonight to install all items again temporarily around the living room (no one home tonight) and to my joy, Barry White streamed out of the speakers without any snaps crackles or pops. (Amazing Bass)

Even the output from the aux. is correct. I also shoved some speaker  wire (1 foot) into the ant. input of the tuner and managed to pick up most of the local stations.  The tuning slider still moves smoothly

I could not access the speaker inputs, but speaker 2 works as if it were new, so no worrys here as I will only need one set of speakers. 

Except for the stereo light on the amplifier (it is playing in stereo) all lights on both pieces are working.

There still is a small pop when I turn on the unit, but much less than before, hopefully a few more sprays (sorry) will get rid of this.

Now I need to make a connector so that I can hook up the cable TV to the tuner so that more statins are available.

Next step will be to find some Danish teak shelves and then time to sell the Beosystem 7000 (sorry no Beogram record player) to pay for the Ipad and Sonos system. Maybe also a nice reel to reel unit (these are quite expensive if they are in good shape)

In case you don't know what Sonos is, it will allow full  remote volume control (and other things) from the Beolab

http://www.sonos.com/Default.aspx?rdr=true&LangType=1033

Thanks everyone for your help.

I'll post some pictures once I have the final installation

Also need to buy some records again

Cheers

Andrew

Happy New year to all and especially to those that helped with this project.

 I finally have a working system. I decided to go with the Apple TV 2 with an Ipad as it was a bit less expensive than the Sonos system. All components are working as they should and actually although the B & O components are more than 40 years old,they don't look that much out of place with the white modern furniture. Now it's time to buy some records.

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