Beomaster 1000 back to life!

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chartz (archived2)
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Posted November 3, 2014 at 18:30 GMT
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I am very optimistic!

Here's the Beomaster 1000, type 2317, series 17 that Dave Farr kindly donated to me.

I haven't done anything yet - the power lead is chopped anyway - just a little bit of dusting and cleaning, you know, dessicated (!) bugs, cobwebs and loads of thick dust, to present it here.

Fortunately, it was not used at a smokers's house, or in a kitchen, so the dust was not greasy or anything. Just loads of it! For instance, the wires instantly got clean after dusting off with a painter's brush. Good!

Such a huge quantity of dust reminds me of my tube TV repairing days!

A few crusty, leaky ROE caps in there!

The tuner string is still in place and the mechanism works smoothly and silently.

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Posted November 3, 2014 at 21:04 GMT
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Following with interest! Keen to see how you get on with this one!

Ben 

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Padrig (archived2)
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Posted November 3, 2014 at 21:09 GMT
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interesting stuff! Have a couple of vintage beomasters and beolabs 1700 up for overhaul to when I find the time to do so. You think the big caps can still be replaced with new ones?

 

good luck

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Posted November 3, 2014 at 21:33 GMT
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Nothing wrong with optimism Jacques!

I'm also following this with interest as it will give me some hints on looking after the other 2 I have (one black keyed and one ivory keys).

I hadn't even looked into this one but it seemed so unmolested that I thought it had a good chance in the right hands.

Dave.

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chartz (archived2)
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Posted November 3, 2014 at 22:01 GMT
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Dave Farr wrote:

I hadn't even looked into this one but it seemed so unmolested that I thought it had a good chance in the right hands.

Thanks for the compliment Dave!

Next step, make a list of components, and do the same for the Beocord, then place the order. Quite a bit of work, this!

I could not find any Beomaster 1000 restoration thread anywhere, so I will do this from scratch, testing components one by one.

But courtesy of Beoworld, I do have the service manual! 🙂

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chartz (archived2)
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Posted November 3, 2014 at 22:11 GMT
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Patrick vdf van der Heijden wrote:

interesting stuff! Have a couple of vintage beomasters and beolabs 1700 up for overhaul to when I find the time to do so. You think the big caps can still be replaced with new ones?

 

good luck

Of course they can!

Thanks, but luck is not a factor - Lindsey Bud, The Abyss.

 

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Posted November 3, 2014 at 22:53 GMT
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chartz wrote:

I could not find any Beomaster 1000 restoration thread anywhere, so I will do this from scratch, testing components one by one.

But courtesy of Beoworld, I do have the service manual! 🙂

Here is my thread Jacques, did as you, opened, cleaned and will order parts from Martin, I hope he has kits for these.

 

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chartz (archived2)
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Posted November 4, 2014 at 04:21 GMT
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Oh good!

The search engine could not find  it! Perhaps because you entitled it BM 1000, not Beomaster 1000!

Thank you!

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chartz (archived2)
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Posted November 4, 2014 at 17:57 GMT
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By the way Søren, putting the switches push buttons all back in place in one operation was easy on my example, on both sides. 😕

Martin strongly advises to replace the power cap, because it has a tendency to blow, apparently... Will do.

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Posted November 4, 2014 at 18:54 GMT
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chartz wrote:
By the way Søren, putting the switches push buttons all back in place in one operation was easy on my example, on both sides. 😕

I tried hard, but no way i could do it. But taking off the keys, made it easier to get them clean on the laterals.

 

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Restored various 1960-70 items
Rock and Roll music
Collecting Vinyl
Restored Jukebox Wurlitzer 1050
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