Hi Paul,

I am in Southampton also; I should be able to supply any parts you need.

If you upgrade your beoworld membership to silver you can Download the manual to help you fix it and also you can ask other Beoworld members for parts.

Best regards Alistair

Audio Origin

Hi Alistair,

Good to know someone from here who is also in Southampton, feeling a bit isolated and definitely out of my depth. Started to work on my turntable because of a few issues but as a result of my handy work I think they've now become major issues!

I'm currently contemplating removing the motor once I figure out how, so that I can clean and re-lubricate it, or perhaps preferably pay to have it done properly. That is assuming there are people in the Southampton area that do that kind of thing?

But my immediate problem is the lift button assembly as described in the first part of my post. I think I've worked out where the metal strip goes - I think it is used to keep a small ball bearing in place that is housed in the side wall of the plastic cylinder in which the lift button and its spring are located. But exactly what this ball bearing does and why it is there escapes me. But as I said, I only think I know where the metal strip goes, and sadly I can't put it back into its place because two pieces of the plastic, which I think are the metal strips retainers, have broken. I've tried gluing them with no success.

Removal of the whole lift button assembly, and subsequent replacement of the plastic container looks easy, but I haven't found a way of doing it. So yes I will upgrade to Silver and obtain the manual, hopefully the manual will include the relevant section and be easy to follow.

Do you have this assembly then? I think I would only need the plastic container, i.e. the bit that has the two raised grips used to change platter speeds. However more could get broken in the removal process. If you do have it are you able to confirm my view on the location of the metal strip?

Don't mean to trouble you unnecessarily but to know I'm on the right path would be helpful. In the meantime I will upgrade my membership and view the manual. Many thanks, Carl

There are a few of us in the area - I'm up near Winchester!

Hello AdamS, it's good to know members are local to me. I've just upgraded to silver so tomorrow I will search for the required Beogram 2000 service manual. Hopefully I should then start making proper progress.

Please see Carl's image below

Hello,

I am having some issues with the lift button on my Beogram 2000 type 5240. I received some kind replies earlier but as yet haven't received any specific answers that take me forward. Yesterday I upgraded my membership to silver in order to access the relevant service manual, but alas it doesn’t provide me with the specific answers I need.

What I am hoping for is to find someone who can take a look at the photo in the previous post above and explain the purpose/function of the following, and subsequently allow me to acquire a fix :-

After several disassemblies and reassemblies for the purposes of lubrication of the actual turntable itself, I noticed the lift button wouldn't depress? I wasn't working in this area and I've had no issues with the lift button up till this point. 

After taking it all apart again and gaining access to the plastic holder that the actual lift button sits in, and removing the lift button along with its spring, I discovered two pieces of broken 'hard' plastic and a copper coloured metal strip loose inside the lift button holder. These pieces are visible in the photo above as is the area of the plastic holder that has broken.

This is what was causing the lift button to not depress. I have no idea what caused the plastic pieces to break but I can see they were once part of the holder. More puzzling is where the metal strip came from. To my limited knowledge and having initially examined the container carefully I could not find anywhere in the holder where the metal strip would serve any useful purpose. 

The metal strip measures 10mm long x 4mm wide and has a raised bit in the middle. After further examination I now suspect the metal strip was held in place by the two pieces of plastic that have now broken, and I suspect the metal strips purpose was to act as a retainer for a small ball bearing that is located in the the side of the holder.

I am very keen to understand this metal strips purpose, and if as I suspect it is to retain the previously mentioned ball bearing, then what purpose does the ball bearing serve? Nothing strikes me as obvious.

To confound me even further and with the two broken plastic pieces removed, along with the metal strip, I decided to put the turntable back together to test it. Low and behold the lift button works, i.e. the lift button stalk connects just fine with the separate solenoid mounted just above it (or below it when the turntable is the right way up). 

One big caveat however is that unlike before, pressing the lift button does not raise the pickup arm nor does it stop the platter from spinning. This fault maybe coincidental resulting from something I've inadvertently done elsewhere, or it may be due to these broken pieces. Would anyone out there know? Thank you in anticipation.

NB: I don't necessarily want to replace the broken plastic holder as to do so looks a pain, especially when I cannot ascertain what functionality the metal strip and small ball bearing perform. But obviously I will have to replace if you think not doing so will present problems. The metal strip and ball bearing must perform some purpose - they must be there for a reason, but what?? If I do have to replace the broken parts then help on how to do this would also be most welcome. The service manual doesn’t explain in words, it just gives an expanded diagram.

Hi ,

The ball bearing makes the rotating selector sit in the right positions, so it’s not loose.

I will upload images but I think you will need to replace the plastic part.

Best regards Alistair

Audio Origin

Hi Alistair,

Thank you, that was the conclusion I was coming to. The speed selector seemed fine without the ball bearing locator. Perhaps it would have been more noticeable to try the selector with and without the ball bearing (which of course I cannot now do).

Do you have the part (the plastic holder) and if so how much would it be?

Also do you know how the holder is removed?

In addition to removing the holder I can see I will have to detach a flat aluminium rod that uses B&O's version of a circlip to connect the rod to the selector ring. How these circlips are removed without the usual circlip holes and without breaking them is as yet unclear.

Many thanks 

Hi Carl,

The main job on that beogram to make it work properly is a motor rebuild, and it also likely needs a new stylus if your stylus has been used for about 1000 hours it should be replaced or professionally rebuilt

Here is my website about stylus repairs

www.audio-origin.co.uk

Yes I can post you the part I will send you an email.

Best regards Alistair

Audio Origin