Got to have either been found or nicked surely?

Led if you are refering to the slide carriage sensor is IR so will not be visible to the naked eye, but a video or some stills cameras can see it although my Canon stills camera doesn't due to an IR filter, my Sony video does! run without the platter assembly when the arm drops (it will think there is a record,, only if ruler is in place otherwise

Geoff you must try to repair this stunning hifi! There are a few people whom have previously written that they like the warm sound of these hifis and they are very desirable to collectors... I would do this as a slow-burn project if you are not overly keen. Personally I cannot wait to get my hands on one of these! I don't think I would keep it,

There was still a chroming plating facitily not far from me in Derbyshire when I last checked, my grandfather had a load of old Meccano nickle plated by them but they offered all sorts of treatments. BTW printed newspaper on its own works great for polishing chrome! @Leslie nice job on the restoration! Nothing happening on my bench while waiting for

Hi Rich, you have a PM!

[quote user="Peter "] Do you remember the ADC Accutrak ? Not sure how well it worked! [/quote] Wow Peter I think that is the deck as used in one of my favorite Columbo episodes! Always wanted to know what it was! I am interested to know how the 5000 excels the 5005 by way of audio quality..? I might have to borrow the 3000 off my mum to compare

[quote user="HarryPierce"] Hi Martin, Thanks for your input! With regard to "fit the platter motor plug to the wrong connector", is there anything that should be connected to that second plug (P2) labelled "LED"? I do not see anything in there that was disconnected and could fit there... [/quote] If there is no led present

Soren in all honesty you might want to look at my 8000 thread. I did an experiment with contact cleaner and have come to the conclusion, like Martin that it should only be used for a temporary solution, or perhaps when it is un-economical or not possible to strip the potentiometer and clean manually! Try it - use your cleaner on one and pull that plus

WOW, that is quite a failure! Can you find the rest of the can? The H-bridge (the bit that drives the servo) does fail in these decks, I have seen this a few times and seems to be due to a partially siezed motor. In this case I would check there is not a short to ground at the output of tr20 (make sure plug 5 is connected!) either somewhere along the

I have some Flat paneled 1802's(?) which look like they have the same drivers... I actually think they sound really nice in a small room at ear level! In fact while they don't exactly blow me away, they never leave me feeling dissapointed or fatigued, and are always enjoyable to listen to with flat tone controls, although loudness helps to lift