Vintage Beolit Thread

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May I kindly ask Beolit 500 owners to give me dimensions of FM antena tip? See pictures above, I have my FM antenna repaired not very nice. 

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Found this advert in a danish car magazine from 1970. 

 

It says:

 

"Top News!

Judge it by its sound quality and take all its other refinements as Premiums!

The requirements for sound quality has grown rapidly in the later years.

But how can these demands be satisfied in a transistor radio?

Within small dimensions?

B&O has done it by, amongst other things, equipping the new Beolit 600

with a specially developed speaker - with a ceramic magnet og a frequenzy-

area on 60-15.000Hz!

This has so far been unknown for a radio this type. And the result:

A sound as wonderful as in a large radio!

In Premium, the new Beolit 600 is refined, untraditional in its design,

materials and colors. You can choose between red, violet, curry, black and 

white. And the suggested retail: only DKR 665,- (Roughly DKR 5430 in 2020,

$899, €725, £620)

B&O - for that circle of people, that discusses taste and quality before the price."

Nobody?

I want to ask my friend to produce Beolit 500 (1965) FM aerial tip, but do not know dimensions.

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I have two of these and can measure the aerial tip for you in the morning!

 

ben

Thank you very much, I will appriaciate it. Need to repair this ugly FM antenna.

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Please see attached photos

The cap is exactly 10mm wide on the top and the screw hole is approx 2cm. The cap slightly curves in as shown by the photos.

Hope this helps

Thanks for pictures,

so widest part has 10mm, what is size of narrower bottom part (B parameter)?

Height of whole FM tip (C parameter)?

Thanks

 

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C is 5mm and B is approx 9cm

Ben
square4 wrote:

I had this beolit 1000 where one panel was broken due to leaking batteries

i Found another panel for it and send both panels to get new teak veneer on

Now my beolit 1000 collection looks like this

Henrik.

Fantastic collection Henrik.

My BL1000 is in use every day!

Ben

Thanks a lot for mesurements.

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