Hi everyone The dust cover on my recently acquired Beocenter 5000 is in pretty bad shape, badly scratched, left-hand hinge is broken (and broke again even when glued with proper aryldite) and the leaf spring has had the ghost and wont keep the lid up... I tried to bend the spring under heat but once bent it quickly looses its spring and the lid wont

Hi everyone Posting this in the hope that it helps other people out. I picked up a Beocenter 5000 a few weeks ago, the cassette deck would play and rewind okay but not fast forward. After digging around various threads I finally plucked up the courage to remove the deck from the unit and pull it down to determine the problem (I am not an electronics

Hah peter seems the tape deck did end up needing some attention. it would not fast forward, I ended up disassembling half the mechanism to lube the jockey wheel sprockets which had dried up and were very hard to move, one it was all back in place it works well. Looks like both tape deck and turntable belts have been replaced sometime in the past as

Home theatre isnt B&O unfortunatly. I am based in Geelong in Victoria (Just moved here from Melb for a bit of a tree-change). HT wise I use a Hitachi PD8800TA plasma for display. A Marantz 7002 HT amp, a Sony BDP-s350 blu ray player, Yamaha DVD-C700b DVD changer, Technics SL-1210mk2 turntable into a Cambridge Audio 540p pre-amp. Speakers are Yamaha

where abouts are you calling from Luke? :)

Just saying hello to everyone from Victoria in Australia. My name is Andrew, im 27 and have been a long fan of B&O products. I am quite interested in newer home theatre products but have always tinkered around with vintage products. A few days ago I got my first 2 B&O products, a Beocenter 5000 and matching Beovox S55 speakers and a Beomaster

Hey Peter, thanks for your reply. At this stage the actual components of the Beocenter work quite well. I had a poke around inside last night and everything appears in good order and nice and clean. The turntable lid has 1 of the 3 hinges cracked, I have repaired with aryldite glue and will add an extra brace to the bracket with some glue tonight and

Hi everyone I'm new to this site and just acquired my first 2 pieces of B&O gear, a Beocenter 5000 with MMC20NE cart with Beovox S55 speakers and stands, and a Beomaster 1001 amp. Both units seem to function correctly however there are a few cosmetic things I would like to correct, some help/advice would be great. 1. The beocenter turntable