Nice work ! Martin

Wonderful machines but a bit ackward to service the front panel. Stuck pushbuttons is a common problem. Like Craig suggests, note the positions and pull off all the push-buttons. Carefully and patient levering off using a wide flatbladed screwdriver set in from below may be the only way. Put something between to avoid scratches. Clean the metal bracket

The quote you found ("...If you can hear the motor running by placing your ear to the deck but the tapeheads won't engage (or has become stuck with a tape loaded), the deck is begging for new belts....") was for the Beocord 2000/3300/5000 family of tapedecks. These decks engage the tapeheads through belt-driven mechanics. Your Beocord

I don't want to comment much in this thread but agree that quality of capacitors matters. Mainly in preamp, tonecontrol and other line-level (and below) circuits where signals (and eventual noise/distortion etc.) are to be amplified. Die_Bogener shows it perfectly in the mild rebuild of the Beomasters and CD players in the workshop section. This

You will need a fairly strong signal (antenna) to get the stereo light on. The discriminator light circuitry is strongly dependent on correct lamp wattage. With the wrong lamps mounted it won't move. It also needs a fairly good signal to show anything. As everywhere else, first thing would be to replace capacitors and check that the lamps are correct

PM to you. Martin

Yes, it was made for use on boats etc. therefore the extended AM (especially shortwave) coverage and battery operation. Martin

I agree with Frede. It's in my collection too and I have the servicemanual which gives the radios name as BEO 610 (suggesting production year 1964). The name "TR26" is not mentioned in the service manual and does not tell the number of transistors in the set as I've read somewhere. The TRxx numbers was something B&O tried on to

Sadly, I don't have the solution to this one. Martin

No. It sounds more like an unstable power supply or a problem with the CPU circuitry (intermittent reset). A normal functioning Beogram will play records regardless of the presence of datalink pins and/or connected Beomaster. It's probably down to simple coincedence that it acts up when the datalink pins are missing - or any noise introduced is