I've seen many different substitutes, fishing line etc. but there's really nothing like working with real dial string. It's still available from many suppliers and it's not particularly costly. Get a 3 meter piece or so (if you can buy as little as that) and you will have enough to allow for eventual mistakes. The length will be corrected

If you buy test CD's from B&O, they will sell you a nice Philips set. It's quite expensive (around 300 euros I think) and I can't help thinking that it would be cheaper if ordered directly from Philips or elsewhere. Only worth it if you do CD repairs regularly. The "next best" thing as mentioned above will do fine for the occasional

[quote user="yachadm"] Graham, No flak at all - I also don't have any special "test-cd". In fact I use a CD-R which I burned. If I calibrate it for this, it will read anything. Cableguy - This is how you want to adjust the Laser, as Graham said, you've done only the first stage of three. The second stage is adjusting the

[quote user="yachadm"] Agent, "This was the worst piece of crap I have read in a very long time! Yes, of course it will be good at blocking DC. But it will block your bass range too! " With all due respect, your comments overstepped your mark. I specified that these are the signal-path COUPLING capacitors, not decoupling. You are

Det har jeg vist allerede givet mit bud på et par gange men afgørelsen er din. Det er jo dig, der skal bruge den. Martin

Det nytter ikke at Beocenter 8500 har søgefunktionerne hvis Beogram'en ikke har. Jeg mener ikke, at 8000-serien har disse funktioner men jeg er som sagt ikke sikker på om 5005'eren har dem. Så må man se lidt i bruger-manualerne. Design-mæssigt mener jeg, at 8000'serien passer bedst til dit Beocenter men det

Beogram 5005 har datalink, så teknisk vil den passe fint men designet er måske ikke ligefrem det bedste match til Beocenter 8500, uden at jeg ved hvor vigtigt det er for dig. Jeg rydder lidt op i min samling så jeg har også: - En rigtig flot Beogram 8002 i palisander som også har datalink. Den er teknisk ny-renoveret. Metal

Thanks, your support is greatly appreciated ! I remember doing one of these a couple of years ago and I had it all put nicely together only to find out I had the tuning wheel rotating in the wrong direction. Direction of string travel is worth noting as the first thing. Then, when you have the path worked out, work in small steps, using pieces of masking

Welcome to Beoworld ! The Beomaster 1600 and 1700 tractor belts work through a set of rubber clutch washers that wears down. They start to slip when friction is lost. The volume control is usually the first one to lose friction since it sees most use and is coupled in at all times (while not adjusting other settings). The service manual will not tell

I never tried that but it looks like a decent replacement. A bit slower but even 120MHz should still be within limits. Check the voltage supplied to the IC. Martin