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Happy with this and when tested all still working fine…..I have to confess to not knowing what the two sticky backed squares provided in Martins capacitor kit are for, new one on me….Martin?

 

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The two tricky tantalum caps in the multivibrator on off circuit board are also tricky to get out…..

 

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Big stuff first….lots of multiple connections in here, not a lot of room either….

 

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Sadly the dustcover isn’t doing so well…..been the subject of a repair in the past, still sort of holding together and I will reinforce the existing repair with additional epoxy….the new aluminium strip will lend more support when fitted as it isn’t foil, more sturdy material…..I would be asking around for a doner cover to replace it with, I think I heard of someone fabricating them but not looked into it?

 

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Control panel also looks in good shape….there is a tantalum capacitor hiding away in there that sometimes gets missed….

 

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The Beogram 4000

Internally looking pretty good, can’t see any footprints anywhere which is encouraging…pully wheel looks wobbly when running, may be buckled, but still works fine.

 

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All done and on test…….all three are now ready for collection….BG4000 next!

 

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noticed that the teflon/mylar strip for the spring lever has become detached, need to reaffix it…

 

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Dust cover fixed bracket is still fixed with the two sided tape…..decided to beef it up with some epoxy to make sure it stayed that way.

 

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Dust cover fixed bracket is still fixed with the two sided tape…..decided to beef it up with some epoxy to make sure it stayed that way.

 

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With some trepidation I connected everything up and gave it a test……all performed well.

 

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The IC canister next…..I had replaced the caps that hide underneath it, learning from the last one!…..this cap is probably the most difficult to access I have ever come across. I cut the old one out retaining the negative leg as long as possible and created a loop on the replacement cap negative leg and hooked it over the existing piece of the old cap…..the positive leg comes out easy enough and the new leg fits in nicely.

 

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onto this little lot…….I’ve seen one of these three legged monsters before, maybe in a BM6000….not too sure, nasty things and awkward to get out. And a link is required to connect the negative leg…the last pic doesn’t show the link, soldered it in once i had the replacement cap in place.

 

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floating chassis caps first…..easy to get to

 

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Connected everything back together and performed a test run to make sure I hadn’t introduced any faults….all good mechanically onto the capacitor replacement.

 

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This screw was filthy with old gummy grease and all manner of detritus sticking to it and the associated worm bush

 

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This last one looked to be in the best shape of the three…everything seemed to work fine, full service position and noticed the detector arm was well low and needed adjustment to 19.5mm from the platter to the top of the arm sorted that then had to adjust the pickup arm to match, not an issue as i was going under there to take the drive screw out and clean it.

 

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All done, sat on flat surface to trim the new rubber feet to the dust cover and put on test for an album….2 down I to go!

 

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Fixed bracket isn’t fixed anymore so out comes the epoxy once again…..

 

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All caps replaced and ready for re-assembly, gave the terminal prongs a clean with a fibre glass pencil and flushed the plugs with DeOxit for good measure….the ribbon connector from the control panel feels quite loose….will have to watch that one.

 

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