Thanks Martin, I'll look into this tomorrow.

Need your help again guys! I have cleaned the contacts on the microswitch and set everything up from scratch ( the mods suggested in the service manual have been done). When I play a record the arm drops in the correct place, plays for about 20-30 seconds and then the arm lifts and drops and continues on playing as normal. I have not done the led conversions

Is this any good? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Bang-and-Olufsen-Beosound-Ouverture-Glass-Doors-/280524063094?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item4150898176

Yes, mine has an incandescent bulb , I can see the filament through the plastic housing. I'll do the mod and see what happens and at the same time I'll get the bits to do Menahem's LED mod. Belt and braces as we say in the UK!

Thanks for the comment Menahem, it does seem to work with a good solid clunk! Maybe you can help with this problem that I have never seen before. The solenoid operates and sometimes, rarely, begins to chatter?? My thought is to replace the 1N4004 diode that is across the solenoid leads. You do mention this in your article but not this particular fault

I rewound the solenoid this morning packing as much wire as possible onto the former. To my surprise, the resistance of the coil measured at 10 ohms! Reassembled this afternoon and.........it works! There is an intermittent problem with the arm lifting in the middle of a record and dropping straight away to continue playing but I had this problem before

I'll try a rewind with the 27 AWG wire and see if I can get another 30+ feet of wire on the former. If that fails then I'll have to wait until the 28 stuff arrives, probably not until Tuesday. I've plenty of other decks to use in the meantime but somehow they are not the same.

I have tried rewinding with the 27 AWG wire and end up with a coil with 7.4 ohms resistance when packed level with the top of the sides of the former. I re-fitted this to the deck and as I suspected, it does not have the strength to operate the mechanism fully. I will rewind, trying to pack the absolute maximum amount of wire on the former. Can I wind

I have ordered this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320543942455&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123 Now thinking about how to build a jig to enable a neat re-wind. Probably involve a battery drill fixed to the bench.

[quote user="Stonk"] Graham, is this the Beogram that slid off the back car seat when your son collected it for you? If so you can blame him for the damage and get him to rewind the coil as compensation [/quote] Yes, it's the very one. Thanks to the kindness of Peter and Lee I have fitted what looks like a brand new wooden surround, fitted