Recently I found a Beocenter 3500 on the attic of my gran. Luckely it still works, but i'm concerned about the TT (the main reason why I wanted it :) ). The TT-belt has been off for a while (for some reason it was jammed underneath the center rotor (on which the record turns)). When i try to put it on, it slips down by itself when i turn the rotor (maybe it's has slackend??), it doesn't fall down when i don't move the rotor. Although I haven't tried it with a record on it, it won't turn automaticaly when I push the lift button (or so I guess). When I turn it by hand everything works: the arm moves in, lowers and at the end of the record it returns to it's original position. 

Can anybody help me? How can I make it work?

Greetings

You really need a new belt. However you can try a short term fix - cut the round belt at an angle and take a small (say 5mm) section out. Super glue it back together and see if it fits. Will do as a temporary measure. The 3500 is a superb music csntre - one of the best made.

Thank you peter, I'll consider that. How about the lift-button that doesn't seem to work?

Does the lift button do anything? It should make the motor spin. Without the belt on, not much else will go on!

I'll check it again in a few days (the TT is not with me atm), but I recall the last time I pressed the lift button it didn't spin automatically (maybe I did a bunch of other things at the same time). When I pressed the button and spinned the table by hand, the arm swinged in and dropped and at the end it went to its original position. So i don't know what's going on. Is the motor busted? (i don't hope so, because I don't know what to do then).

If the belt is not on, it will not turn the auto mechanism - only the turntable motor will spin and this won't turn the platter as the belt is not there! Take the platter off and see what happens to the motor.

What if I don't see the small wheel turn (the wheel around which the belt is span)? I'm screwed then ain't I?

I have a fully functioning BC3500 about 2'-0" behind my head if anyone needs reference! LMK!

Well Jaff, if the motor doesn't turn if I push the lift button, I'm screwed ain't I?

Thank god I can say that the motor is fine. The only thing is that the small wheel, which turns the turntable via the belt, will only spin when i pull it towards me (so towards the front of the machine). It didn't work with the cable on at first, but eventually it did (although the freakin cable keeps falling off).

And Peter, I'll try you're short term fix. Does it really work to cut the belt, shorten it and glue it together (will it hold?).

Just need to find some cables to connect it to a pair of Beovox S60. You really can see that Bang and Olufsen products are build like a tank. After over 30 years it still works and looks marvelous! With a bit of a cleanup it looks like it got out of the shop yesterday.

Does anybody know a good adress for a new TT-belt?

Member Dillen (Martin) will probably be able to provide a new belt for you. You can contact him by browsing the forum (best place to find him is in the product related forums). Simply click on his user name & use the "start a conversation" function. His belts are guaranteed to be 100% as goood as the originals & in many cases better.

Beautiful machine the BC3500. I gave one away with some reconditioned Beovox S55's to a dear friend & he absolutely loves it. I would have loved to have kept it for myself but a combination of lack of space & an ever increasingly unhappy wife forced my hand really. I gave it away as it was an unexpected gift to myself from the Beoworld site owner Lee & to do anything else with it would have been just wrong.... The main thing is that it is used & appreciated on a daily basis & is in good hands.

Chris.

If I were you I'd try to do something about your lovely wife :). A BC3500 in the bedroom for instance is a nice extra on a late night ;). Or is your house stuffed allready with B&O? 

Next time you marry, try and find a woman with the same interests as your own :).

I don't have that belt but is the belt also falling off when the platter is mounted ?

Martin

I haven't been able to test that. When the platter is off it's just like the belt is somehow rolled up to one side, because it just rolls off when I turn the platter. When I don't turn it, it keeps on. It actually is quite tight (I think it can get tighter) around the platter.

Just a thought,have you released the transit screw's?

I don't know if they're tightend. Could those screws be of any influence to the belt tention?

If the suspension moves nice and freely, then the screws have not been tightend up. If it does not mave at all they have.

Craig

I've loosend the screws and it moves freely. The screws are not in a line with the underlying black trim (where you screw them on), they stick out (although they don't hit the platter). Is that normal?

I have to thank you guys for all your advice. The belt doesn't slip off anymore, so it was the tightening screws who were to blame.

Thanks again!