Thanks to Dillen, I have a new tacho and fitting it, & plugging in, the turntable spun at 33 & 45 1/2 way there! I went to play and the arm moved to the edge of the record and stayed there. After that none of the buttons would work. Unplugged and plugged in again and the 1amp fuse in the shaver adapter went bang. (don't want to cut off the

I got given this and on testing it worked in Playback /FF/RW mode at least for a while. It has obviously been somewhere very damp judging by all the rust. After taking it apart to clean the very noisy headphone slider and re-assembling, It did not work. Having checked I found one of the voltage regulators (-15V) had gone and by renewing it and the leaky

Hello Yes I have definitely broken one! The cable is not soldered to the board. and the connector is in 2 halves. They are a bit like IDE connectors apart from they don't separate very easily The white part on the cable is almost like a spacer and the wire from the ribbon is the connector

Probably easy when you know how, but as I have just destroyed one, I thought I would ask. They are in a Beocord 8004. The black connectors seem to just have the cables pushed in and come out easily . The white ones you have to wrench which breaks the connections to the board. is there a special tool?? Please advise. Thanks