Can you please confirm that on your deck the head is not at right angles to the cassette like mine?

Looks the same.

I glued my broken PCB last night, and this morning I was able to fix all but 3 of the traces with solder.  I tried to use wire on the other 3 without taking the timer off and unscrewing the board, but I wan't happy with the results.  I took the wire out and quit.  I'll wait to work on my deck again until after I receive the board from Jeff.

jrantala wrote:

Oh yes, the timer belt: I left only small opening between the machine and keyboard (i.e. almost closed the keyboard down) and then used my wife's crochet hooks to get the belt in place.

They are actually very good tools with all belts, tuning wires in old radios etc., the crochet hooks!

- Jari

By the way, while I was at Lowes getting superglue and a few other other items, I discovered Kobalt makes a set of tools that includes a straight pick, 45 degree, 90 degree, and a hook.

Well at least you tried! That one wasn't an easy one anyway.

Thanks for the picture. I thought the alignment was odd (well, it is according to Philips standards) but I remember that my Beocord 9000 has the same kind of head tilt. By the way, the cassettes I did on the Beocord 9000 replay perfectly on this deck, piano notes being rock-steady, with plenty of treble with dolby on. Nakamichi ones don't. I'll never understand why tapes recorded on Naks are always out of azimuth when played on any other deck I have...

By the way, where does the PC1 to PC2 strand go?

On my machine (which is a 4705), the recording head is about the same as You guys, and the playback head is even more tilted forward- should have taken a picture, but missed that, I'm afraid.

- Jari

Thanks for confirming Jari! Three misaligned decks? Nah...

The service manual for the Beocord 5000 (4705, 4715) calls out using several B&O alignment tools.  Has anyone ever come across those?  It would be handy to reproduce them for future servicing.  Without the alignment tools are you just eyeballing the adjustments and then testing the results with a cassette?

I have one of these decks I bought new back around 1977 or 1978.  It was in a box out in a shed for years until last year.  I brought it in and took it apart to fully clean everything but got side tracked.  I didn't know all of the history behind this deck until watching this post.  This will motivate me to restore mine....thanks.

Rich/Jacques,

24 hour delay, but you both have packages en route!

Rich, your ETA is Friday. Jacques, I have no Clouseau!

Thanks Jeff!

To France, usually 6 or 7 working days. 

Very nice indeed! 

Interesting link to a Tim Jarman post about what he did to Peter's Beocord: