Quite common. The battery contacts are flimsy and don't maintain their pressure on the batteries. The other problems that you do have are also common. The whole thing is notoriously unreliable in particular they nearly always have pixels missing in the display.

I have 2 vx7000's and neither have any sort of clear perspex dust excluder on the cassette flap. My service manual shows the part number of the cassette flap as 3164915 Hope this helps!

beo4life (my son Brett) on this forum did have a lead and has tried his. Seemed to work ok but our DAB signal is crap out here in the sticks and I've not heard him speak about it lately. What's your problem?

Basically you need to make it yourself with a couple of RCA plugs and a 5 pin din plug plus a couple of lengths of screened cable.

Yes, I sold a BM6500 to a customer who was going to use it to feed a QUAD power amp via powerlink. It was a couple of years ago and as far as I know, all went well. I remember that we arranged to meet at a farmer's grass air strip. The guy arrived in his private plane, collected and paid for the amp and off he flew. Had a few phone calls about making

He's online but I think he's avoiding us!!!

Puncher: joeyboygolf: u won't find it now Andy, he's changed it! You've spoiled our fun - I was prepared to let him keep looking!! What? Just because he won that nice white 7000 system and talks about it in every post!!! I think all his posts from now on should go for moderator approval. Come to think about it, I have the POWER.......they

u won't find it now Andy, he's changed it!

@Peter - u missed a u out

beo4life would order 5-10 depending on price.