Lamps can blow and break for any reason, even from mere vibrations but with another lamp fitted I suggest you check the voltage across the lamp, just to make sure it didn't blow from overvoltage. Martin

Welcome to Beoworld ! First thing would be to replace capacitors and preset trimmers on the amplifier board and of course readjust to factory settings afterwards. It's an essential step in any Beomaster 6000 restoration. It will make an eventual further diagnose easier and may even cure the actual problem. Martin

Put an ohmmeter across its leads and check for continuity. Martin

Clean and lubricate the threaded carriage shaft. Martin

[quote user="Aarong"] Regarding the FM noise, please note that low signal level station will be heard with low volume... if this is normal working of the FM radio. [/quote] Does this mean, that you actually have a station albeit weak ? If that is the case, check the AGC line and voltages around the IF amplifiers. Martin

I don't dare think of the Ebay fees. Hmm.. the 18 cans were sold at 7.75 each. Martin

The Grand Prix 609K from my restoration thread is now in Japan, entertaining customers in a shop selling contemporary scandinavian design (mainly teak) furniture so I'm afraid, I cannot just go and test things like that but I do seem to remember that it was pretty quiet when tuning between stations. Actually, I would expect that from a B&O top

Hold it. I just realized that it was Tim who had a similar Beocord on the bench a couple of years ago; Quote from Beocentral.com : "26th August 2008 by Tim Jarman This cassette recorder would play normally for up to ten minutes at a time before shutting down, necessitating the interruption of the mains supply to unlock the keypad so that operation

It was for the Beocord 5000 and it was in my own notes so sorry, I don't have any immediate clues. It will have to be diagnosed further, I'm afraid. Martin

Glad I could help. Don't be a stranger now. Martin