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Re: Pictures of my new System

waterlander2004 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:45:45 GMT

Peter, thanks for sharing... it is a wonderful, timeless system, just radiating the concept of 'quality'. Well done, wish I had room for one...

Re: Pictures of my new System

BCubbins — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:41:44 GMT

tooooo cool

thanks for sharing

Re: Pictures of my new System

Peter — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:54:36 GMT

beaker:

Peter, how did you get the sliders so clean on yours. Mine are slightly yellow - is this cleanable. I do have a BM3000 which has perfect ones, is it possible to swap them over if I fancy it?

I think the 3000 is a different size but they are easy to get on and off - the whole front panel just unbolts. The slides all do seem to yellow eventually but they do vary a lot. I have had quite a few of these models so I just keep the best ones I see!

Re: Pictures of my new System

beocool — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:30:39 GMT

Great system, Beaker. I hope you'll enjoy it.

Re: Pictures of my new System

beaker — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:07:25 GMT

Peter, how did you get the sliders so clean on yours. Mine are slightly yellow - is this cleanable. I do have a BM3000 which has perfect ones, is it possible to swap them over if I fancy it?

Re: Pictures of my new System

Peter — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:52:56 GMT

And this is after - I removed all the numbers, leaving just the markings , replaced the missing markings first and then put the numbers in. I don't think it was bad but I did replace it eventually with a better front plate and obviously now have the one Frede did for me.

Re: Pictures of my new System

Peter — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:49:08 GMT

Just to show you the possibilities, here is my original 5000 before I used the Letraset. You can see the typical missing numbers in the volume scale.

Re: Pictures of my new System

alenvprekrsku — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:14:21 GMT

Congratulations! Great collection. Vintage rules.

Thank you for great picture. I want some more pics.

Alen

Re: Pictures of my new System

Peter — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:05:03 GMT

On the number front, you have a few options. I did one of mine using Letraset - the font I used with Helvetica and it matched perfectly. There are also lots of lines that can be used for the markings. A friend of mine had the whole panel engraved which obviously will not wear but is not original. Frede is having new panels made - I have one of the first on the system he restored for me.

Having set this up, it allowed him to do the following!

Re: Pictures of my new System

j0hnbarker — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:48:45 GMT

DROOL!!! :)

Re: Pictures of my new System

stefan — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:41:42 GMT

Great. Congratulations! I have a lot of Beo stuff, but this one is missing...... Maybe my next purchase....?

For the lamps there are two guys who might be helpful: Frede and Martin (Dillen) from Denmark.

Enjoy the 5000

Stefan

Re: Pictures of my new System

beaker — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:36:39 GMT

And it came with a Beolit 500, which was nice.

Along with a Beogram 1000, which actually sounds very good indeed.

If you saw me at the moment you might mistake me for the Cheshire Cat! Im rather pleased with them!

Re: Pictures of my new System

beaker — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:36:25 GMT

Heres the Beocord and speakers.

The Beocord has a plastic cover over the control panel to keep it nice and clean. The tweeters dont work on one speaker, hopefully I can do something about that.

Pictures of my new System

beaker — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:33:23 GMT

I tried to post some pictures of my 5000 system yesterday but for some reason it didnt work. So here we go again.

As can be seen its in pretty good order. This is before I have given it a thorough going over. There is some wear to the volume numbers and a bit on the tuning dial, but I can live with that. The lights on the amp dont work at the moment but hopefully I can sort that.