It makes no difference if a record is not on the 8002.  It should move the tone arm either way.  

Most likely the arm drive belt.

Or arm light bulb.

GReg wrote:

Hi all,

I'm new owner of a BEO system (Beomaster 8000, Beogram 8002 and Beocord 9000) and I need to repair the Beomaster and Beogram.

Well, my beogram don't work, when I press play button, the plate is turning but tonearm don't move. There is no light on the arm.

What can I check first ?

I already order MArtin's capkit to recap my beogram, I'm waiting it :)

Thanks for help

Hi and congratulations on some great components (all of them are favorites of mine). 

Anyone reading through the various repair posts in this thread should (hopefully) conclude that a Beogram 8002 acquired used and not yet restored will need a full restoration at some point (hopefully sooner than later). I have done quite a few of these turntables now and can report that on two of them, I did the minimum in getting them fully functional again. In both of those cases, problems later arose where I had to go back in and do a full restoration. So my recommendation is that you plan to doing a full restoration of your Beogram from the beginning - Replace the capacitors of course, resolder the board connectors clean and lubricate all of the moving parts (that require lubrication) and perform the service manual adjustments (tracking force, platter height, tangential tracking sensor and left/right tonearm movement voltages). Compared to something like the Beomaster 8000 the Beogram 8002 electrical restoration can appear to be much simpler.  However, care must be taken as the solder points are small and a lot of stuff is on the two boards. Plan on going slow and checking everything. I found it much easier to do the restoration by completely removing the turntable chassis from the cabinet. Here is a reference link to my Beogram 8000 repair thread. While there are some things very different between them, the repair methodology is the same. I think there should be some additional restoration information you might find useful in that thread.

You will also need to check your MMC phono cartridge condition. What cartridge came with the turntable and what condition is it in?

-sonavor

Hi sonavor and thanks for the link. 

I already remove the pcb from the cabinet,  I will check connector soon. 

The cartbridge is a mmc4 but the cantilever seems to be a few bended. I will post pics of it soon. 

You will love that turntable once you get it working.  I have 3 of them.

If you have to replace the cartridge I would not get too hung up on mmc1, mmc2, or mmc3  I have all three and they all sound about the same.   I know on paper they are different but there is really not much of a difference audio wise.  Soundsmith makes brand new mmc clones.

thanks ;)

I already own a beogram 4002 with MMC20S and I love the sound

GReg wrote:

Hi sonavor and thanks for the link. 

I already remove the pcb from the cabinet,  I will check connector soon. 

The cartbridge is a mmc4 but the cantilever seems to be a few bended. I will post pics of it soon. 

Here are a couple more links for your other system 8000 component restorations. These links should give you some idea of they type of restoration work needed - Beocord 9000 and Beomaster 8000. Also check out member,

Hi. I recently  bought a Beosystem 8000. I'm very new to the Bang Olufsen world. Had previously beomaster 1900. I'm good with soldering but not very good with electronic stuff.

Well I have a similar problem with my Beogam 8002 as  user Sanovar on page 15 in the same thread : the problem is all so in youtube linked here: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLARySrPGv8

And the base platter with cartridge is vibrating strongly, after lubrication it got better but still it is very bad.

I played around with buttons and got it to work ...after like 15 minutes or so, and then it worked correctly. But after sitting there on stand by the problem came back! The back two numbers on the screen are flashing whats indicate that the Beogram is not able to get to right speed.

I read the thread from beginning til end and I opened the Beogram up and re lubricate bought the threaded shaft and and the base rotor as well according to the suggestions here on thread.

I think that I have to replace all the  capacitors to get it right. As said i'm not good with electronics but good wit soldering. But first I want to ask here if perhaps someone has the similar problem and has some better solution for the problem I'm having

Best regards

Egon