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Beogram 8002 starts after 30 minutes

Hello , have received from a customer an Beocenter 8002 to service. When I docked it in the socket nothing happened . After half an hour passed slowly to start and finally after 45 minutes it worked fine . The next day the same thing, because I had disconnected the power cord. It feels so that after...

Posted to The Workbench (Forum) by Designed-AV on Tue, Mar 4 2014
Filed under: beogram, Repair, Beogram 8000 8002 6002, recap, mmc3, mmc2, Mmc1, MMC, mmc4

Penta - when is a bipolar not a bipolar?

Just about to recap two pairs of Penta 1s and have four pcb 14 and four pcb 15s to compare. They are all in beautiful condition with no leaking capacitors or burned-out resistors - which makes me wonder if it it even worth recapping - is there a scientific way to test them? Surprisingly, the electrolytics...

Posted to The Workbench (Forum) by westy12 on Tue, Dec 31 2013
Filed under: Penta, recap, Circuit boards, Bipolar

Beomaster 7000 tuner and Aux connection

I recently purchased a Beomaster 7000 (minus Beolink 7000) and I'm having no luck getting the tuner to work. I've done some recapping on a Beomaster 5000 and Beogram 4004 with great results but the tuner section is beyond my capabilities. I'm using a Beo 6 to do the tuning by using the Beo...

Posted to The Workbench (Forum) by j_lowry on Fri, Nov 10 2017
Filed under: beomaster 7000, Beomaster 6500, recap, Circuit boards, repairs, tuning, challenge

RL60 (6503) ABR repair

TLDR; I designed replacement parts to bass-reflex-ify RL60s. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3050203 to download the files. They can be laser cut or mostly cut on a CNC router (there are tight corners that are fit critical that a CNC router won't be able to do. Hand work will be required to finish...

Posted to The Workbench (Forum) by bikemandan on Sat, Sep 8 2018
Filed under: Repair, RL 140, Redline, rebuild, recap, RL140, Beomaster 3300, RL60 ABR repair

Hi-Fi Stereo 610 (608) Amplifier - maintenance

Hello dear B&O-adepts! My first post on this forum. Looking for a reasonably priced tube amplifiers, I stumbled on this beauty for sale. Instead of listening to a shiny Chinese amplifier box, I am now enyoying the marvelous sounds produced by a black faced B&O Hi-Fi stereo 610 amplifier. Tubes...

Posted to The Workbench (Forum) by Wouter on Fri, Jan 10 2020
Filed under: Vintage Beomaster, Repair, capacitors, recap, 610, 608

A hello, and another S45 overhaul

Greetings all! Longtime (over a decade!) lurker, and with the state of the world being what it is, tacking a project I've long had on my mind. Bit of an intro and background about me and my love affair with B&O— Some years ago, I moved across the country for college, and of course, the...

Posted to The Workbench (Forum) by Ian on Tue, Apr 21 2020
Filed under: Repair, refoam, s45, capacitors, rebuild, recap, DIY, Rubber, Crossover, re-foaming, resin, 6302, cabinets, beovox s45

Beomaster 1900-2 T2903 dead after recap

Hello, i wanted to rejuvenate my Beomaster 1900-2 Type 2903 which i own for a very long time. I replaced all my capacitors, rectifier, lamps and idle trimmers with Martins kit. I also changed the 2 big reservoir capacitors with two F&T Al-Elko 4700uF -10+30% 40v I took my sweet time and worked very...

Posted to The Workbench (Forum) by Andreas on Tue, Dec 1 2020
Filed under: recap

Beogram 8000

Well, hope not beging of WW3, but BG8000 thread Startpoint soon...: Hey, look! No tools! Yet

Posted to The Workbench (Forum) by Orava on Thu, Oct 17 2013
Filed under: beogram, detector arm, rebuild, turntable, recap, vinyl, 8000