I apparently had a particularly clear day, as I now had the good sense to open another Beogram to compare. This is the insides of my Beogram 9500, which is still running on the original holder for the arm drive cord. This shows how everything is positioned when the arm has been manually pushed as far in as it will go. So I suppose everything is in order

[quote user="Jonathan"] The guy that left me the negative won the auction he was bidding for. I'm located in Australia and he is in America. Immediately after the auction ended he paid for the item and added only $5 for international shipping. I sent him an email stating that the actual shipping cost was $19. [/quote] He probably thought

The colour is not original, and.... it's beatiful!

It was indeed built for the old 405 line system, and those transmissions ceased in 1985. I'm also sure the set works if they say so, but there's no programming you could view with it. Even a Freeview box won't help with that, contrary to what the article says.

Would be interesting to know how big a part design actually played up to the early '60s. Most radios from the '40s and '50s looked similar, probably for practical reasons. Going further back from there, the appearances start to diverge again. I'll forgive Philips a few decades of awful design for doing the 930A in 1931:

That was a fun read, thanks for the link

Thanks for asking, but unfortunately it's not mine to sell After adjusting the set down points, it is now passable - the rest position of the arm is perhaps 2 mm more inwards than in my other decks. On the other hand, it seems to stop playing a bit earlier... just as if the whole travel of the carriage was one notch shorter than it should be.

No, it's the fixed (no string) loop first, then around the eccentric... I actually managed to (sort of) sort this by keeping the carriage ~6mm away from the center stop while stringing the wire and everything seems OK. I just don't like the idea of letting this out from my hands like that in case whatever is wrong snaps back in place later.

I have a BG7000 that needed the infamous drive cord attachment fix. I've done it twice before and never had any problems. However, now something is fishy. If I try to restring the wire per the book (arm carriage to the center stop, the large pulley anticlockwise to the stop), the wire doesn't seem to fit where it should. The knot is 5-8 mm to