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Been here before as can be seen from the Rudi patented laser printed capacitor bracket, and the ne 6v & 24v power supply smoothing capacitors….cant quite remember what else I did in here but I suspect it may have been a replacement of the 24v regulator OTR1….It comes with the description of “misbehaving” in as much as the tone arm is driving inboard and not returning to the stop position when required….I will have a look.

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Well secured and packed…..platter was packed separately and stowed away under the Beogram in foam and cardboard

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Lifted out …..

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Not a particularly good image but does show the extent of the protection the chest provides for these delicate machines…given the degree of abuse they would suffer at the hands of almost all delivery companies

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And inside the chest was a heavily padded BG4000….

 

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must be these two fellows………

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From your pic I can see the tone arm connector which accepts the cartridge is ruined…..this can be replaced with a lazer printed component available from Rudi the Beolover. This is a quite involved process requiring some very tricky soldering and also some time to achieve,  the absence of light from the detector arm may be nothing more than a burned out lamp, also requiring some soldering skills…..these are not tasks to be undertaken by anyone unsure of said abilities…..and if one can find a repair shop willing to take it on, not many will due to the time consuming process, they will charge you a fortune. I have a B&O shop close to me who advised me they charge £150 just to look at a BG4000…..needless to say any repairs on my kit is carried out by myself ;¬)

Tim Jarman is well respected in this forum, though I have never met him, I’m sure he would be more than capable of giving you some guidance.

Craig

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Looks to me like the “upgrade” in question doesn’t cover the more complicated BG4000…..even though the end result is identified as such

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And post some pics….always useful ?

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Just had a thought, is this the 6000 quad amp, unfortunately I have assumed it is ?

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Love these amps…so over engineered it’s untrue, you should consider replacing all the capacitors as a matter of course, however it’s a good idea to resolve the problem you have first so you know your not introducing additional issues as you go along.
you could start by looking at replacing the four output capacitors first, I have found these caused similar problems to the one your having…..and as you should replace them anyway it’s a good place to start, check out my posts in the archives, I’ve done one or two and they may help you out….enjoy ?

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Martin aka Dillen will sell you a complete set of capacitors and lamps for this unit, not sure what he charges these days so you need to send him a post…….however replacing capacitors may be just the start………first thing would be to determine if it actually works prior to replacing anything, most problems can be resolved without spending a fortune and these amplifiers are well worth restoring

Craig

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this is the adjustment for  a BG4000……..

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Well……thanks for clearing that up ;¬)

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Ok……so what did you replace? I’m guessing capacitors and maybe trimmers, double check the polarities of the caps you changed, it’s easy to get one in the wrong way around

 

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Did you replace the tuning lamps?…..I haven’t worked on a BM2000 but I do know that if one changes the lamps on  BM4000 they must be the correct mA rating or it causes issues with the rest of the circuit….Dillen (Martin)  from the site may be able to supply the correct lamps if thats the case…

Craig

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Looks like the nozzle from a windscreen wash, I bought a wine bottle vacuum pump when I was considering infusing one of my BG4000 motors….however when i  put it on test and mapped it using one of Rudi’s tachometer devices, downloaded the readings to Excel to produce a graph I found the speed was very consistent so haven’t tried it yet. It’s something I will do when the time comes more out of interest than anything else…

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Best if you dont apply that adage to the cam belt on your car ;¬)

Craig

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Gravity….

Martin (the oracle of all BG4000 knowledge) would frown on replacing the tantalum capacitors with electrolytics, he did explain the reason for this in a previous post of mine when I performed a similar restoration on a BG5000, I do know there are advocates of the replacement with electrolytics (Rudi) however I went with Martins advice and put new tantalums in. You should replace the old electrolytic capacitors with new as they will have dried out and as Christian says change out the skeleton trimmers for new piher sealed trimmers, do this one at a time measuring the settings of the existing one (as best you can) and run the deck, adjusting the trimmer if required, to ensure all is well before moving on to the next one….that way you will know just where to look if things stop working (poor solder joint etc)……so far so good ;¬)

Craig

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Some pics would be good Graham….

 

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