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It’s not uncommon to find spare cartridges, or parts thereof, inside Beograms.
Same goes for center pucks, stylus guards and needle brushes.
I have also found lots of coins, keys, jewelry, LEGO bricks etc.
Under the dust cover seems to be a “safe” place to store small items.
When the Beogram is later moved, the things slide around and fall into the innards.In the larger 1930s to 1960s valve-based radios you could, and still can, sometimes find savings and love letters.
These radios were often fairly large cabinets with room to spare, – a good and safe place to keep secrets from the wife, as she was not likely to ever go in there.Here batteries in a Beogram 5500, arrived here for repairs because the carriage was blocked:
Close, but no cigar.
Martin
Lay the large black hinge bracket (the rear vertical plate) flat on the table with its backside down. Put it on a thin piece of cloth or similar to prevent scratches and scuff marks.
Place the three small shiny friction plates in place in the hinge bracket, so that they sit aligned with where the three holders will be (photo).
From little marks they have left, you can usually see where they sat previously, and you can glue them in if you find them difficult to control.Put the dustcover in place in the bracket, also lying flat on the table (in what would correspond to fully open position if upright) and fit the spring to the hinge bracket at the center with a holder, a screw and a washer. Don’t mind the springs ends at this point – just let them flap around as they please until the center holder has been fitted.
The spring has small round ends, that needs to run in the grooves at the ends of the dustcover, so make sure the spring is the right way up, or it will run with the sharp pointed ends in the groove and wear the grooves out in no time.Then grab one end of the spring with pliers, twist it to upright position and set the springs length down in the groove in the hinge plate (some hinge plates have small tags it needs to go around and between) and set it into the groove in the dustcover.
Often the spring will be able to sit by itself like this.
Put a black plastic holder in place, hold it with a finger or two while you lift up the whole assy and mount the screw and washer from the other side. Alternatively, keep it flat and slide it out over the edge of a table, just enough to fit the screw and washer from below.
Same job at the other end.
Takes a little practice but it’s a 2-minute job when you know how.
The above instructions for assembly of the dust cover, spring etc. is valid for the following
Bang & Olufsen models:Beogram 1100
Beogram 1102
Beogram 1500 (Type 57xx only)
Beogram 1600
Beogram 1602
Beogram 1700
Beogram 1900
Beogram 1902
Beogram 2200
Beogram 2202
Beogram 2400
Beogram 2402
Beogram 2404
Beogram 3400
Beogram 3404
Beogram 6000 (Type 57xx only)
Beogram RXThe square holders (friction brackets) are known to break.
New parts can be found here.Martin
