Beogram 3000 tone arm adjustment

[DoubleHelix]

Hello, I try to restore a Beogram 3000 linear tracker.
I’ve lubed the rails of the tone arm assembly. Lift, cue, forward, pause, play, stop all works,
but I’m experiencing skating issues. I wanted to adjust now the tonearm according to the manual.

I’ve set the tracking arm to 53mm, but I cant get the tone arm to the same height, no matter how mcuh
I loose the brass screw (B). Maybe the 53mm are not taken from the top of the floating base to the top of the
tracking arm? I’ve also attached some pictures for clarification.

I’m out of Ideas and would be very glad for any suggestions on how to proceed 🙂

 

 

 

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[Mark-sf]

I can’t tell from your third cropped picture, is the rear of the tonearm even with the detector arm and its only the rear of the arm that cannot go done enough to raise it?

[DoubleHelix]

Hello Mark, the whole tonearm is a bit too low. I made another picture with a pliar accross both arms as a reference.

[Mark-sf]

It looks like your tonearm’s azimith adjustment is way off with the left side too low as viewed from the front. There is a separate adjustment in the manual for that.

[DoubleHelix]

Just want to give you an update:

The problem was the old cartridge. The stylus became loose
from the dampening element. I tried to glue it back with some success, but the stylus itself
was also worn out, so it still could not hold track. I did sacrilege and converted the
everything to Ortofon system. The beogram now tracks like a boss, and I know the purists will hate me,
but I’m very pleased with the sound😆

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