Rich wrote:

chartz wrote:

Rich wrote:

I feel for you. I gave up on mine and sent it to someone with more skill and patience. Successfully changing belts on a 3300 made me think I could tackle one of these.I was wrong.

I remember Rich!

Those can be fixed, but it is true they are a bit daunting. Our friend Rudy (Beolover) has now very complete instructions on his Beoblog.

My favourite deck.

That was a fun thread.

Until it wasn't!

Me - never,  ever , again. i have done four players plus a couple becenters. Once they were all fixed up and working correctly. they were put in a closet never to be used again. Complete waste of time and money.. The only deck in service is my Beocord 5000. I play one or two of my five remaining tapes every couple of months.

My poor 5500 just sits unattended and unserviced. But as they say, "One must complete the set".  I have completed the set.

Hi Guys,

Don't give up so quickly! Cassettes are making a comeback like vinyl did a few years back! Nothing beats nostalgia....;-). Rebuilding a 5000 is a bit like enjoying an expensive bottle of wine...it takes some time... I am still adjusting the last one I did here and there. Last night I gave it a bit less damping of the eject mechanism, for example, since the cassette would once in a while not eject fully...anyway, this mechanical stuff is a bit of an 'experiential science'.

I started organizing my blog posts a bit, and generated a

I once looked for one of those balls for a whole afternoon 😭

It had located itself into a damaged joint - with just enough space for it - between two floor tiles.

I am still grateful that you warned me about the balls when I did my first 5000! Still had to hunt for one, though...🙂

Rudy

Thanks! Much appreciated!

Rudy

PS.: I realized that the links to the posts on my

Obiously too long time sice working anykind of analog control logic. Two options, have to check internals of Swiss made motor, or feedeing circuitity.

Beolover wrote:

Thanks! Much appreciated!

Rudy

PS.: I realized that the links to the posts on my link were all wrong. They should work now...

Beolover,

I have really enjoyed reading some of your blog post regarding the Beogram 400x. very informative. Thanks

I have my lovely BM 2400 on the bench. It has been playing good for about 3 years,

Ricardo wrote:

Me - never,  ever , again. i have done four players plus a couple becenters. Once they were all fixed up and working correctly. they were put in a closet never to be used again. Complete waste of time and money.. The only deck in service is my Beocord 5000. I play one or two of my five remaining tapes every couple of months.

My poor 5500 just sits unattended and unserviced. But as they say, "One must complete the set".  I have completed the set.

I have a BC8004 that sits in the garage unused, but I have 6 other decks that get quite a bit of use.  The BC2400 in the garage gets used all the time.  In the 80s and 90s I didn't own a single "prerecorded" cassette.  Now I have over one hundred.  You can find lots of 20+ cassettes for just a couple dollars here and there.  I recently bought the Led Zeppelin boxed set on cassette for less than $10.

If you've got anyVAC input to the bridge rectifier, then after the rectifier, you should have some DC. If not, change the rectifier! It may be failing under load.

Or C92 2200uF is shorting, and drawing the whole DC down.

25VAC is fine for +/-31VDC - remember that you've got big 5000uF caps, which ups the output voltage.

Do an experiment, and you'll see how - Isolate the rectifier output from the rest of the system, and measure VDC output (You'll see it's low). Then connect the 2 5000uF caps, and measure VDC (You'll see it rise).  Then load up the rest of the circuit normally, and measure the rectifier output again (You'll see it drop slightly).

I would use 6800uF on the replacement. 

Menahem