Hi Olivier,

Since nobody has answered yet and I'm in the mood for writing, I'll make some assumptions based on my extensive reading here in Beoworld when I had to repair mine and my own experience in that time. Anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

As for many items from that era the 9000 is made of several parts:

- Discreet electronics, reparable at component level = capacitors, leds, transistors, resistors…
- Specific electronics like IC's, certainly some components, the carriage ribbon wire/spring = difficult to repair or source appart from a donor…
- Generic parts, essentially the CD mech, can be mildly difficult to very difficult to source. As far as I know it's not "impossible" yet.
- Specific parts, you can repair if you're handy (like the glass door or maybe some parts that can be 3D printed)…
- Specific parts difficult to repair or source appart from a donor, like hinges, tachowheel, carriage wire, beauty panels…

Depending on what talents, workshop, knowledge you've access to things can move from one category to the other.

That being said, I believe it's often a matter of money. Here in France BS9000 range from 400€ faulty* (sometime just the laser, sometimes not) to around 1500€ declared as "working". I think repairing a BS9000 is not the same "pleasure" that restoring an old vintage Beomaster or Beogram. Therefore it's more about how much you want to spend to see your 9000 spinning again, more like a fix the a restoration. Summing up the cost of the device and the repair and taking into account the specific parts hard to find, you should know when you can buy or when it's time to sell.

Another thing to consider is the pinched protection when you buy a faulty MK3. You can repair all you can, if you dont have the pin code, it won't start.

*With some very rare but real exceptions.

Thanks for taking the time to answer.

Thanks for taking the time to answer.