The service manual is available for download for silver and gold members. Well worth the small fee and if you go for gold membership you get to participate in the monthly prizedraw. Checkout the prizes here : http://www.beoworld.org/prize_draw.asp Martin

Hi and welcome to Beoworld ! Beogram 1700 is a wonderful deck and the newest of that design range. Both the user - (in english) and service manuals are available for download for silver and gold members. Well worth the small fee and if you go for gold membership you get to participate in the monthly prizedraw. Checkout the prizes here : http://www.beoworld

Test CD's can be bought several places but if you want the correct one(s) as referred to in the service manual you will have to ask your B&O parts dealer. The original B&O CD's (actually Philips) are quite costly, I seem to remember in the 200£ range. Martin

Now, two new 22uF 400V electrolytic capacitors have been hidden away below decks. I found a nice "isolated" spot where they could be fitted, held by a cable strap, and their leads wired to where the original caps leads went. I used the heat resistant lead for this since it looks pretty much like the original leads and it will withstand the

Thanks Craig. Yes, that would indeed be nice, sadly 1Mohm potentiometers with a built-in push-pull mains switch are no longer off-the-shelf parts but I won't give up without a fight. While the search goes on, I will turn my attention towards the rest of the chassis again, there's lots of work to be done here. Both the main smoothing cap and

Hi and welcome to Beoworld ! The BEO 610 is a strange beast but it sounds like yours is pretty much original. It should look like this: Martin

No, but there's a german seller at Ebay occasionally listing some. Martin

I doubt the one on Thogersens website has the correct speaker cloth, it makes the whole thing look strange, I think. I saw a couple of Master 38K's and they were all like the one picture in the first post of this thread. That includes my own. B&O did experiment with patterns and figures but it was on a limited number of models, the Master 43K

Welcome to Beoworld and thanks for signing up as a silver member, your support is greatly appreciated ! Your Beogram will need a new belt. You're right in assuming that the belts tension keeps the idler wheel in contact with the motor pulley. To confirm this, you can simply cut out 10-15mm of the length of the old belt and glue the ends back together

Hi Brian, Welcome to Beoworld ! The automatic position will turn on the motor and rotate the platter for cleaning records. For playing a record, you will have to choose the correct size (7, 10 or 12) and press LIFT (which, in case the lettering has worn off or the alu bright is missing, is the center button, between the two size setting prongs). The