Expecting my cartridges back on Monday so will send them on.

Yes. The wooden frame locks all the other plates into position. The safest way to transport a 4000 type deck is to pick it up yourself and to use the original packaging. Clearly this is rare! If you have no packaging, remove the platters and pack them separately and remove the cartridge. Make sure all the other panels are locked into position, put a

Turn off the power first and see if that helps. It sounds as if you have a belt problem - Martin can get you new ones.

Quite correct. You will have to decide whether to use the digi box in the main room or whether to have two. Both are possible.

It rather depends on what signals you plan to use it with. If SD, then the BV5 would be hard to beat. If most of your signals are HD, get the BV8-40, The BV8 will also work with all the modern equipment better than the BV5 - remember the BV5 is essentially an Avant with a plasma screen.

Very nice! I have BL3 on either side of my Mermaid screen.

There was a thread on this somewhere but I cannot find it. Products vary from a Beocenter 2200 in a Kylie Minogue video to an Ouverture in a version of the Simpsons!

Is it a new TV to you? Sounds as if the wrong type of PAL is selected. You should be able to change this via the service menu - Pal I is number 16!

Very well photographed and a good collection of equipment. Having a 12 year old daughter means my house is more of a bomb site so it is nice to see what it could look like!!

No, it is one of my ancestors! He is called Brockett Grover and I have his picture as well as those of his wife, mother and mother in law. They are life size oil paintings and hang in my hall. Painted about 1799 at the time of his wedding.