yachadm: The 3rd part, Germanium diode AA143, is a challenge. This is NLA at any reasonable price. Oh, of course, there are a few vendors willing to sell at outrageous MOQ's, or have a minimum order value of $250. What part is it, or what function does it serve? I can't find it mentioned anywhere in the service manual I downloaded from this

Jandyt: The problem lies in a little brass pin which is in a brass sleeve. Dillen (Martin) has kindly posted a picture of the offending pin here Exactly the pin that was frozen completely solid in the BC2800 I got last summer! I needed penetrating oil and heavy pliers to get it to move at all. You have to disassemble the stuff connected to it before

Well, 14V / 80 mA seems to work just great as the dial bulb. It's bright enough but doesn't get too hot ("on" and "stereo" could be a little brighter; I guess the original spec for dial is 12-15 / 100 mA, which would allow a little more current to the other bulbs). I even got the correct T5 glass socket bulbs. Unfortunately

I've been starving all evening and fixing my new Beomaster 2000, so I'm cooking now. I'll be listening closely!

yachadm: No response. I can't remember ever pressing < to start playing an LP, so I don't know if that is ever supposed to work from At Rest? No, only "<<" starts the machine. But once it is running, you can press < or > (or V) to cancel the automatic operation and control it manually from there on with the other keys

cwf: Right! The cassette in question came from my recently written-off 82 BMW 728i which was hit in transit in London a month ago. I had one of those, 1984 model, five years ago! Never thought of using parts of it to repair my audio equipment, though

beologisch: I can agree with you on this, but not to my liking though : I've had a pair of Pentavoxes [after I tried a pair of Redline 140] attached to my MB7000 and they sounded fine, but that all changed when I tried a pair of Pentalabs III with my BM7000. I kept them, sold my Pentavoxes promptly and never regretted it; aspecially when playing

I agree. At least get a 10 €/£/$ second hand CD player and try that as a source before blaming the speakers (well, you'll need some means of adjusting the volume too). Most integrated PC sound devices, and cheap to midprice audio cards are utter crap soundwise if you use the analogue output. You don't need BL4's to prove that

Dillen: Which key tops are missing ? The keys missing in the other 2000 are OFF, FM and P1 (all black). The off key doesn't have the ridges in the bottom, so it's just a rectangular block of aluminum. A cheap plastic imitation could be easily made out of, umm, plastic (black acryl) If I get the rest of that machine working without too much work

Dillen: A lamp kit is available, containing a complete set of new lamps. The kit also fixes a couple of design glitches with regards to the tuner and lamp power supplies. Thanks, but I think I'll try to get them locally first, as I need a pile of other stuff too, and I really want to get the chaos out of my living room floor by the weekend You'll