Got to my BM 2400 yesterday, its type 2902 and its nearly all hard wired, without jacks, only jacks was for main lamp board, the rest wired, so I had to put it this way to work on it, command board and lamps finished and clean. I opened and dismanteled without looking at the description from Martin, I did it right😁

chartz wrote:

Oh yes I know it too well. I've been through black goo myself, spreading it all over my house courtesy of my left shoe!

BeoTar...

I think it is a breeding alien life form -how does it manage to get EVERYWHERE!?!?! Oh, and good luck getting it off!

I removed 99% of it from your pulley wheel -you may want to hit the groove again before installing!

Søren Mexico wrote:

so I had to put it this way to work on it

They are tight! Looks like you are doing well! 🤒

The dreaded Beo-Carpet-Goop ! A sure fire guaranteed ass chewing from the SWMBO. In my case it was the ex-SWMBO - it never stops even after they are your ex.

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Moving on to happy things. Here is a Now working Beosystem 3300 I rescued out of an attic in UA last summer. Total trainwreck - nothing worked and now it mostly all does including the remote Burantek sold me.

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Your remote cost almost as much as the Beomaster Beocord and Beogram CD all put together. I think I got a hell of a deal.

Got my BM 2404 working, connected to BG 2404, world star festival from 1980 something, sounds wonderfull, radio comes in like it should with antenna, stereo lights on Bass light on, was missing before, Martins lamp and cap kit did it, why do people complain about bass missing on S45s 81-83, enough bass for me, I'm happy, good buy 99.00 US.Check vintage for more, more pics there tomorrow.

Now listening to the Happening, Diana ross and Supremes, I just love these old Beos

Here is one of my current restoration projects. This Beolab 5000 has spent the last 16 years under a damp house, the only saving grace was that the woodwork and front panel are relatively unscathed. The mains transformer was a large round blob of rust. Beolab 5000 and Beomaster 5000 were not sold in New Zealand, this unit is one of only two that I am aware of in the country.

This first photo is of the unit dismantled, after washing the PCBs - they were coated in  both black and white mildew.

Some of the metalwork prepared for fresh paint.

Reassembly in progress. This project has been slow due to a number of screws which rusted solid into the chassis, and had to be drilled out and retapped.

Just finished repair of Bass slider on BM 2400, look in vintage Beomaster 2400 repair and cleaning, here a pic of the beauty. Next on the BM 901 below it

Right now I'm working on a pair of Realistic Optimus T-120s. They were my dad's first decent speakers he bought in college and I'm restoring them for him as a suprise for Christmas! They are much further along than the picture.

After that its back to my BeoMaster 3000-2 which has now lost both channels. powers on but zero output. I really cannot describe how much I miss this system. It is just plain incredible.