Update:
Well well what a fun little journey that was 😀
I am now the exceedingly happy owner of a fully working and stunning Beogram 6500!
So as @Dillen suggested I found a replacement transformer from a well known auction website for sixty five pounds.
It came supplied with a fused circuit board (with the large capacitor) but had different traces to the one on my Beogram so I just soldered the new transformer to the original board and fitted it.
When power was added the Beogram was alive. It wouldn’t track though. This baffled me for ages – until I decided to open up my Beogram 3500 to use as a reference. After checking the two I noticed the wires for the lamp were connected to the two pins for the motor, and vice-versa. I changed them over and presto the deck operated as normal.
Next up I had to raise the platter to the correct height. Then the arm followed by the tonearm. Finally I adjusted the drop point because the stylus was slipping off the record at the start. (Worst nightmare)
The tracking weight was set at over 1.5 so I pulled that back to just on 1.
Big moment. Connected the Beogram up to the BM and sat for the next couple of hours enjoying some of my favourite LPs 😎
As always, I couldn’t have done this without the years of knowledge, resources and friendly people on this site to give me the confidence to try.
(Two photos – the ‘how lucky am I?’ using one Beogram to check against the other scenario. And the BG6500 up and running at last ❤️)
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Location: Kent, UK
