Hi there - thanks for the fast response. Yes I've unfastened the transport screws. No problem there. I just unplugged the din from the Phono socket and tried it in Tape 1, then Tape 2. No sound from the playing record. I guess no alterations have been carried out on the original design. I took a close look at the MMC 4. Looks fine, as in everything

Dear all, I recently purchased a Beomaster 5000 with Master Control Panel 5000, and the matching Beogram 5005. The sale was private and through eBay. I'm very happy with the Beomaster. It has brought a new lease of life to my Beogram CD 3500 and Celestion Ditton 44s I've married to it. My concern sits with the Beogram - it's generally in

I collected a Beogram 3500 from Cornwall in a state of disrepair...packed it carefully in the boot of the car and drove back to London. Took it into my flat and plugged it in. All worked fine. Seems B&O cd players like to be taken out in the car now and again!

Hi - thanks for responding. The tapes don't sound dull, they're in quite a good sonic state. It's just volume that's down. Dolby works well on tapes I've recorded myself. My tapes are old - about twenty years and more. They've been dragged about from flat to flat over the years and haven't been played. Perhaps you're

Greetings all, I previously posted a cry for help about my Beocord 3500 and gratefully received a heap of support from this forum, thanks all! I'm still working on improving this deck. It plays tapes well, but I'm now keen to improve playback. My question is around cleaning and demagnetizing. When I playback my old tapes, I'm not seeing

Final project update: Thanks to everyone for helping out. The Beocord is now fixed and running well. Steve's 'donor deck' worked a treat - thanks very much Steve! At first swapping the drive unit and the belts didn't work - it was only when I found myself with some spare weekend time that I sat down and looked closely at my repair job

Project update 2: I received new belts, quite pricey! The packaging did come with a very comprehansive instruction sheet with picture, which was very good. Only small belts included though, no replacement for the main, large belt. Anyway - I fitted them and sadly when I activated the deck and pressed 'play' the mechanism moved almost into position

Sorry Martin - mis-read your post. That's excellent news. I'll PM you for further details. Thanks! pepps

Project update: All - many thanks for your advice. I've had the unit in pieces and it does indeed seemto be belt-related. There's a small belt located on the underside of the cassette deck, accessible by removing the rear panel. This presents no problem to replace. The tricky one is located inside the cassette chassis itself. This is much thicker

Hi Andrew - thanks for the speedy reply! I hear you regarding cleaning up the dirt, good call. The capacitor doesn't look like it's blown so perhaps it's still ok? As for sourcing a diagram I'll have a check around the web for such a thing. There are plenty of B&O shops nearby so I might chance my arm at chatting to one of the store