[quote user="Peter "] Standard fitting to the more upmarket radial decks - my 1902 had it. [/quote] Thanks, Peter. It looks "original," if a bit beaten.

I plugged the deck in, and wouldn't you know it? The tonearm immediately sort of "clicked into place" and returned to its home station. I'd been doing this on my lunch hour, and I was already needing to get back to work. I had to see if the deck worked. I pressed the "spin" button, and the deck did turn. I tested the transport

I tore the ring completely off and applied a small bead of two-part epoxy to the platter. (I had some epoxy left over from performing the "Martin surgery" on my spare Beovox M70 phase link drivers.) I then pressed the ring back into round onto the platter and set it aside.

...and reattached!!!!

[quote user="Leslie"] Oh man, that looks bad! What's next? [/quote] It gets worse. Something unusual caught my eye sort of sticking out of the platter. The platter is a bit like the RX 2 in that it appears to be a top plate setting on a lower platter, the lower platter actually carrying the belt. I pulled the top plate and found this.

I unwrapped the bit of packing material at the front/cartridge end of the tonearm. Sure enough, there was a cartridge under there. Dig the angle the tonearm is making. I "screwed" the tonearm counterweight back into position, and tried to see if I could manually move the tonearm back close to where it belonged. It just sort of "snapped"

I got the BG3404 out of the box and onto the dining room table. Quick check of the cosmetics - nothing jumps out as wrong. Even the dust cover is in good shape. I opened the cover and took a look at the tonearm. Looks bent at the back and has the same damage to the surface of the table that my junky spare RX 2 had.

I removed all the newspaper and found an original owner's manual. Score! Quick check of Beoworld: no BG3404 owner's/user's manual on site. Hey! I can finally give back to Beoworld with a scan of the owner's manual. But yikes! Look at that tonearm! Pretty sure it shouldn't be in that position!

For those who haven't seen my "BG4002 Down! (Back up already)" thread, my BG4002 has been sent off to a professional. A week or two ago I received my new Soundsmith SMMC20EN. Well, I'm not a patient man. I need to hear this new cartridge. I'd tried to buy a BG1700 or two on Ebay based on some things I'd read here, but they

Got a call from the receptionist at work this morning: "Rich, you have a parcel at the front desk." Went up to the front of the building and found a B&O box. "Well, that's a good start - original packaging." Picked up the box and started walking back to my office. I could here the table rattling around on the inside. My initial