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Re: Beogram 1200 speed issues

bwaje — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:34:20 GMT

Hi Dillen I searched but found nothing relevant for lubrication or bearings; the search is rather disapointing because of the duplicated posts.

Re: Beogram 1200 speed issues

Dillen — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:08:24 GMT

Welcome to Beoworld !

Your Beogram is in need of cleaning and lubrication of the motor bearings. It's a 1-phase AC motor and it needs to be taken apart to do it right. We've seen this a couple of times before, do a search on these fora and you'll find more info.

It's a lovely deck and worth the trouble.

Martin

Beogram 1200 speed issues

pfly — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:10:17 GMT

Ok, so the problem is that my turntable starts reeeeeaaaally slowly. When I push start-button, first it seems like the platter wouldn't turn at all, then it starts to gain revs really slow. after some 3-5 minutes it spins as it should (well almost, with pitch turned all the way up). The "gears" (small copper/brass cone in the end of motor's shaft and large rubberwheel the cone touches) are transferring the power nice and tidy. While TT is gaining speed, if I try to help it by spinning the record by hand, it won't help, the speed falls to where it was before I touched it. To me it seems like the motor would slowly gain it's right operating voltage, like it would be charging itself. When I flip the record or change the record, next time I push start, it will gain the right speed MUCH faster, but still a bit slowly... But if I let it be for some hours then it'll be way too slow again, like some condenser's would lose voltage or something...

http://www.danny.mcnulty.btinternet.co.uk/audio.html

It seems like this guy would be having the same problem.