Hi again, Martin I removed the black cover and found the dead lamp epoxied in there, including its receptacle epoxied to the cover - and no way to remove that lamp without damage. So I had a look at my scrap 4000 series and found a similar lampholder there with a working lamp. I then measured the voltage across the solder points where the lamp must

Ah, thanks again Martin. For being stupid, I think I will go and have two dozen Copenhagens and go and stand in the corner for a while. But first, let me go and look at that lamp. Best regards dauphine/andre

Hi Martin I looked for that lamp until I'm cross-eyed and can't see it. Unless you are referring to the lamp under the wand next to the tonearm. That's working, as you can see from my pics. The arm and all its functions are normal when start is pressed. It lowers gently in the lead-in groove and starts playing for about 1 minute and then

[quote user="Step1"] 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

Hello all I spent several hours adjusting the suspension to 'bounce' free in all directions. The arm carriage traverses side to side silently. Cleaned all the multipin connectors and their board-side sockets - all manually with 1000grit 3M paper. As last night, when a recorsd plays, it only does so for 3mm from track one and the carriage stops

Greetings, Martin Thanks once more for the valuable advice. As it was a beautiful day here in Cape Town, I reluctantly took a few hours away from the 4002 but started again an hour ago. As I go along the path of rehabilitation, I will post some news regarding progress. I have 4 other turntables in use - mostly Garrard 301's, a Micro MR-711 direct

Hi Martin @ Eugene Thanks so much for the interest and advice from beoworld.org. Yes, The belt was fitted together with the platters. Initially, I noticed the belt was riding against the motor pulley's top flange and the belt was scrubbing a little on the top platter's underside. Raising the motor pulley fixed the problem. Today, I will do some

It plays - Atrociously! Now the long road to full recovery starts. I'm under no illusions that what still has to be done is minor. Earlier, just after my previous post, I was going to remove the board once more for close inspection incase I could see or measure anything obvious. On the spur of the moment, I decided to try once more as I was interested

Hi Guys Hope you are having a good weekend. With the kind assistance of the members here, I have re-wired that phono out 6-pin connector on board # 8. I decided to discard the fancy bit of cable I wanted to use as it was too unwieldy so I found a piece of old school phono cable with additional screen and the pic shows how I did the job. Just about before

Hello All (Soren Mexico, Eugene, Ben A and tournedos) I am overwhelmed by your replies, advice and goodwill. Thank you ad infinitum and good health and Peace to you all. There may well be further issues but I am sure I will overcome them all. As much as I would like to continue immediately with repairs, I have to stop for a day to cleanup my workbench