[quote user="Rich"] [quote user="Evan"] Right now I'm breaking down my late Grandfather's Realistic SA 100C amplifier. I'm going to do my best trying to do a full restoration on it, looks as well as electricals. I am documenting it, but since its not beo I wasnt going to post it. I will make a thread for it if you guys

I will be opening my BG4002 in the next week or two and will take a picture. In the meantime, I imagine someone else will beat me to it. I think there is at least one BG4002 thread (maybe it was a 4000) already in the forum with many pictures. Did you search the forum for a 4002 thread?

While I can offer nothing by way of their history, may I suggest there is one word to describe them: groovy!

[quote user="classic"] Most were destroyed after the development group has ended the work and at those days employees (working with development) could “borrow” these sets to use at home. [/quote] I want a job like that.

[quote user="Evan"] Right now I'm breaking down my late Grandfather's Realistic SA 100C amplifier. I'm going to do my best trying to do a full restoration on it, looks as well as electricals. I am documenting it, but since its not beo I wasnt going to post it. I will make a thread for it if you guys want to see it. (sorry for the

[quote user="Peter "] On the cartridge, get the one you have repaired by Axel. Much cheaper than new and he does a very good job. [/quote] So does Benny in the US (Georgia). I have a retipped MMC4 from Benny.

[quote user="Søren Mexico"] [quote user="Rich"]Soren, you just called me "old"![/quote] I would never go so far as to call you old, but lets see how old you really are. Who recorded My Dingeling, Sweet Little Sixteen, Nadine and Roll over Beethoven back in the 50s [/quote] Try to at least challenge me! Chuck Berry

[quote user="elephant"] The one disappointment so far has been my attempts to capture my Music DVDs -- they are not as simple to capture as CDs -- and nor is accessing them through PLEX easy. I am sure it is something I could address ... if I only had time. [/quote] Ripping Blu-ray/DVD and converting same.

[quote user="Søren Mexico"] [quote user="Eugene"]Good morning [/quote] A good one to you too Eugene, my wife love that sound track, I have it somewhere, have to dig. The young ones on the forum never heard about it [/quote] Soren, you just called me "old"! I have done this playlist on my iPod more than once: Saturday

[quote user="Dillen"] Losen the input/output board that partly covers the solder side of the amplifier board and swing it aside. The input/output board is held only by a couple of countersunk screws near the DIN sockets at the rear. This way you won't have to desolder anything but the caps. And those caps are bad. (A kit exists for this