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Another question: would it be OK to operate the unit in the service position? I'd like to be able to probe around the board with a plastic tool while it's operating, to see if the area of the intermittent connection can be located while it runs. Again, thanks! -Adam

An update: After crudely putting the 8000 in the service position (note to those who may be doing this: do NOT use the Play button to move the arms out of the way to access the under-tonearm door while two of the bottom plate hooks are pulled out of the suspension springs; the drive coils didn't seem to like that...), I took a look at the underside

[quote user="Dillen"] Look at the solder side of the board, that's possible with the Beogram in service position. Redo any peculiar looking solder joints, there will be many. A magnifier will help you and in rare cases a microscope is needed. Remove the old solder and add fresh. I like to use solder with a hint of silver in it to help

Another update: during further testing, it once again began to lose speed. While it was slowing down, I tapped the front panel, and it zoomed back up to speed. Does that mean a cracked solder joint is to blame? And if so, what would be the best tool to use to try and find it? Also, are there any tricks to removing the circuit board? Once again, thanks

[quote user="Dillen"] As Peter also suggests, it sounds like a cracked solder joint or a capacitor fault. Martin [/quote] Good to know. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't something impossible to replace overheating and/or burning out. I'll have to try and do some troubleshooting. Where should I start, and what should I do? As usual

[quote user="Peter "] I used white transfers and printed black onto it - the white shows through. The cartridge is actually an MMC20S which has had a new stylus with a Shibata profile diamond put on by Axel. I wonder if the fault is a cracked solder joint. It does not sound as if you are in the UK! [/quote] Looks like it came out did very

Houston, we have a problem... Shortly after I re-secured the tonearm cover panel to it's hinge, I decided to take the 8000 for yet another spin. Most of the way through Simon and Garfunkel "Bridge Over Troubled Water", the unit lost speed, and the platter came to a stop. The speed display showed only "33", no decimal numerals

The only thing I've found in any of my Beograms wasn't weird, but it did have an effect on operation. The foreign object was the stylus cover for the previous cartridge that'd been installed in my Beogram 8000 (presumably the original MMC20CL; the installed MMC20E's stylus guard was in the spare cartridge well), and it'd managed

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