Howdy from texas beofans, I’m fixing up a beogram 5500 as a project and had a few questions as this is the first TT I’ve worked on (I do a lot more work on cassette machines). I opened it up and this is what I found:
-belt actually had a small tear which caused the turntable to wow
-tonearm lowers automatically but only drops the needle so much, kinda just floating above the record and giving a distorted output. I can get a crystal clear sound by raising the tracking force quite a bit (to ~1.8g, a lot for an mmc2) and tapping the tonearm so it goes down all the way and stays down with the extra weight
I bought a #2732062 replacement belt from west coast belts to start, which made the speed consistent though way faster (at both 33 and 45). There are motor speed trimpots inside, do I just need to mess with those or should I look elsewhere first? I’ve heard an over-tight belt would cause this, do I need a new one? And the tonearm, should it be lubricated or is something else off? Sorry for the million questions and THANKS in advance!
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