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Thank you – that’s really useful. I am following the correct procedure to make a recording, but it’s not working. The previous recording that’s already on the tape remains, so I’m guessing there’s something wrong with the recording heads.
Probably not worth the cost of getting it repaired, but I’ll look into it, thanks.
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If I were to send you both of mine, would you be prepared to fix one, and you can keep the other? If you could PM me with an approximate price for that, I’d be grateful.
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Thanks for the advice skolesen, I might try that.
And also thanks Guy – the battery cover arrived.
I now have two Beolink 5000s, one does not seem to work at all (although it could be the battery contacts – I haven’t investigated further yet), the other one does appear to be working from the phone camera test, but I haven’t yet got my Beocenter 9500 out of storage to test it fully. My Beomaster 6500 does appear to pick up some signals from it, but not many, and not always the one that corresponds to the button pressed!
Both are in great cosmetic condition but both have loose displays which come fully out of the housing, and I know they displays will probably have dead pixels anyway. I know that the two-way communication is often faulty on these too.
Does anyone know where I can get these repaired, or at least one of them? I don’t believe Multicare repair these, but correct me if I’m wrong.
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Ah – there appears to be a glitch in the PM thingy – if I search for user ‘Guy’, you are the fourth one down, and your name is partially hidden by the text box formatting buttons:
Because of this, I can’t click your name. Maybe you could PM me, and I can reply?
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Thank you – I did have them in the right way after all then. It’s not working, so I’ll have to have a more detailed look at it.
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Thanks – as long as I know it can learn new commands, It’ll definitely be useful to me, so I’ll download the configurator and get a licence for it.
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Thanks Guy – I’ve already checked Danish Sound Parts and they don’t, but I’m sure I could find a suitable alternative. I might sas well take a look inside and see what I can find out – it’s worth a try (but I won’t be baking any components in the oven!).
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Ah thank you – not quite the same on the BV11 menu but if I press Menu and then Sources, I noticed that Radio was disabled as a source. I had assumed that would activate the radio in my Beosound 9000 (connected via a Beolink Converter NL/ML) but it did in fact activate the DTV radio channels.
I’ve added the unused N.Radio button as the button to select that source, and set that the same in the IR mapping on the BLC, so now I now have ‘Radio’ as a source for my Beosound 9000 FM/AM tuner, and ‘N.Radio’ as a source for the DTV radio stations.
This allows me to listen to BBC Radio 6 Music without any need for using my phone and Chromecast audio, so it’s a winner! Thank you.
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Hi Teemu. I’m no photographer I’m afraid but hopefully these will help. This repair was a while ago but from memory, I originally used contact adhesive to glue the hook back on, but it came off again – because it’s only small, there isnlt much surface for the adhesive.
So, second attempt, I made a little triangular plastic ‘buttress’ – a right-angled triangle of only about 3 or 4mm high, out of a hard plastic (I think I made it out of a broken cassette base, using a craft knife.
I glued that onto the ‘hook’ first, and then I glued the hook in place, but this time I used superglue gel, and I used quite a bit of it too, hoping that the gel would dry into a ‘blob’ that would help hold it all in place. Happily, it worked.
It depends where yours is broke – on mine, the hook broke so that there was a rough area on the lower-right side (opposite side to the hook itself), which meant I had to glue it onto the right inside edge of the round hole on the carriage, where it had broken off from. I had to allow for this when I attached my makeshift ‘buttress’, making sure the bottom edge of my buttress, and the right edge of the broken hook, formed a small right angle, which I could glue into place.
I’m afraid it’s not very clear on the photographs (the buttress is made of clear plastic so you can’t really see it), so I’ve added a little diagram:
The grey part is the carriage, and the gap is the little round hole that the hook broke away from. The blue is the hook, and the orange is the little buttress I made from a piece of hard plastic. Remember I glued the buttress onto the hook first, let that dry, then glued the hook and buttress onto the carriage.
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Yes I think you’re probably right, I was just hoping that the fact that it will still record but not play might mean the HDD is okay.
It’s probably not worth the cost of replacing the HDD, to be honest I use a Beosound 5 for digital music anyway. It’s just nice to have things working fully.
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Oh by the way, I did also run testmode 37 again after running testmode 27, and it worked that time and reset the system to default settings, but the HDD still won’t play – I still get ‘HDD Lock’ in the display if I try to play from CD Mem.
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Ah yes, thanks, it shows CDM Error 18, which is ‘HDD Access Error’. Seems strange that it still records but doesn’t play though.
Does anyone know if there is any way to ‘reset’ the HDD?
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I know this is an old post but I’m having the same trouble – the string came loose on mine and I can’t get it back on. In the service manual it shows that in one direction the string should be 1/2 turns round the drum coming round the top, and the other end 3 turns round the drum coming round the bottom. It’s really hard to do that without removing the drum, and then it all comes loose again when you push the drum back into place! The little spring that sits inside the drum, to which both ends of the string are attached, seems to have come loose in mine and there doesn’t seem to be anything for the spring to attach too. I expect there was some little lug or catch within the drum which the spring connected to, and it was perhaps worn or snapped off, so the spring doesn’t remain in place. That’s probably the reason the string came loose in fact.
I have another non-functioning 901 which is in quote poor cosmetic condition, but the tuning seems to move smoothly. I was thinking of taking the whole string and drum out of that and putting into the working 901, but I know that will still be really fiddly and hard to do, so I’ve been putting it off!
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I have taken a look at the mountings studs and they are screw-threaded on either end, but not all the way along the shaft, so I’m not sure how you could shorten them. Getting a shorter alternative would seem to be the best option.
I broke one of the mounting studs on my Beolab Penta and I contacted Quality Dream Audio to ask if they had any spare. They did, and they sold them to me quite cheap. It might be worth contacting them to ask if they have any Beovox Penta studs.
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Thanks for the tip. Yes both of those measurements seem to be right. I had already attempted to adjust the platter height as described in the service manual, but it makes no difference to this specific problem as the whole mechanism is either lifted or lowered, so the distance between the wire drive pulley and the platter wheel remains unchanged.
It’s as if the wire drive pulley is lifting just a little bit as it brings the tonearm to the centre of the platter. It is just about making contact with the underside of the platter wheel. I cannot see any way to increase the height of the platter (independent of the mechanism) or to lower that wire drive pulley.
If I apply a little bit of force to the wire drive pulley while it is making contact, then spin the platter wheel, they come away from each other and the platter wheel moves freely, but once I move the tonearm out and then back in again, the issue instantly returns.
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Following this, out of curiousity I looked inside by Beogram 4500, 8500 and 9500, which I know have essentially the same mechanism. I found in each case that the clearance between the platter wheel and the wire drive pulley is very small – probably 0.5mm if that.
However, on my Beogram 3300, I am still unable to figure out why they are meeting each other when the arm is moved inward. I have been unable to find any way to adjust it.
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Hi
Im interested in the 6500 with the cartridge but without the stand. I’m in Halifax so not a million miles away – have you a price in mind?
Kind Regards. Robert
I could sell it without the stand yes, but the Beogram 6500 is in for service with Multicare at the moment as it needed a new part. Multicare tell me that it should be ready next month – can we put a raincheck in this until then? I’d be happy to deliver to Halifax by the way as I travel that way quite often anyway.
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