This all started with a faulty MCP5500 and a search through the archives. I then sent an eamil to Chris....... I caught the year old thread via a search regarding non functioning MCP 5500 volume control. Do you have any more microswitches available. He could not find one and sent the following..... no joy I'm afaraid, I've looked in all the

I am after a microswitch for the MCP 5500 (or 6500) volume control. I am told that it is also available in any (broken) beogram record deck fron the 1980's (the 1800, rx, 2000, 5000 series) as there will be a couple of these switches lurking around under the platter. Same goes for the Beocenter 2200. Thanks for any help on this one! Brian

For the cost of 12 BL3500 could she not have bought a pair of BL5 and some old egg boxes to decorate the ceiling ? Brian

Have workshop manuals stopped being produced (re request for BEO4 manual) since most items are now replace board or throw away rather than repair??? Brian

Go for them! I sometimes feel people become too hung up about figures and power output. I used to use a Beomaster 900 with a pair of Beovox 3800 until I bought a Beomaster 4000 to replace it. The output of the 900 is just 6 watts per channel but "drove the speakers" quite well. Although the 60 watts of the Beomaster 4000 appears 10 times as

Speaker 5 - I have only 4! Brian

Have I missed anyhting? Is the prize draw not on Christmas Eve? Looks as though all I can say is congratulations to one and all and a Merry Christmas. I will try to catch a draw in 2009! Brian

I recorded it too - have yet to watch it! I will be looking forward to sitting down tomorrow. As an asideI have been trying to work out my surround sound set up and think I am there now! It will be interesting to see how it sounds. Brian

I am not convinced this will work. The sagging has taken place over many years and simply placing a weight on the inverted part may temporarily work - but soon after returning it to the correct upright postion I would think it fill sag once again. I would be interested in any other ideas anyone has! Brian

The side strip from a 6500 is identical.... Sorry, can't help though! Brian