magnushj: Is there a chance you would draw up a quick schematic for me to make sure i understand it correctly? Will do, but it will take until tomorrow because I can't be bothered to use Corel Draw

Toby: What is wrong using the full screen mode? Nothing, if that's the way you like it! Completely a personal matter. Personally I find too wide lines hard to read (and so do most people - the guys in print business realized this hundreds of years ago) and prefer to use the screen width not just for the single task at hand. Anyway, having a scaling

Piaf: The truth is this Beogram 4000 is so extraordinarily beautiful that it bothers me that it has black electrical tape holding on a cheap US electrical plug and RCA connectors. As to the power cord, I'd just get a modern cord with a molded plug, which should be available in any electronics or hardware store. Even the "correct" old cords

Let us know what you found out then. I might have the same project in my hands later on! Edit: After a brief moment of brightness, I realized I could take a look in the MX/LX service manual that is on the site. On the spec pages, the data leves are actually described. If I understand them correctly, the data is indeed superimposed at a level of little

stefan: A quick and elegant way could be to connect a Lintronic -238 box to the SCART connection. Connect PIN 8 to IR data input of the -238 box, ground PIN 21 to ground IR input. Extrapolating from that, I guess the data is just superimposed on the switching signal at a small amplitude. Connect a small cap to it and lead that to a op-amp stage biased

henrik: IMHO, it's not the forum design that is a waste of space, the real waste of space is running a web browser in fullscreen mode on a high-resolution monitor. My thoughts exactly. At work, where I have a 16:10 monitor, I have room for two web browsers side by side (or one browser window, and the other half of the screen for doing what ever

No thank you. Too wide columns become hard to read, and what's most important, then it would be harder to use with my Nokia E90 from the pub -mika

While doing the adjustments (oh how I miss the times when a test picture was broadcast for at least half of the day instead of mobile games for morons), I also noticed that there was a thin brighter stripe at the top of screen. Pop comes the contrast screen off, and yeah right, the actual tube surface is smeared with brown gunk. Apparently this set

I opened the set an hour ago. It is a bit more complex than I expected even without the teletext option Anyway, I removed/re-inserted most connectors, went through the most obvious bad solders (big components, places that have been hot, the board at the end of the tube) and cleaned up the insides. After powering up, the colours are OK almost at once

Piaf: My local audio dealer recommended sewing machine oil which I used on my Beogram 4002. Seemed to work well, but now after all this talk about silicon grease I wonder if I have made the wrong choice. Sewing machine oil is just fine for the smaller targets, like pivots, axles, etc. It is however so thin that it won't stay very long in places