G'day everyone,
I know you all missed me so much, I did too. Unfortunately, I had a catastrophic multi-disk RAID crash (well, a multi-chip RAID controller failure would be more precise) and I've lost utterly everything - all my personal and business data since 1985, photos, scans, and much, much more.
The worst news for me was that I also lost all the refit documentation and photos I was preparing for the Beocord 1600. Luckily, I found an old backup of some of the photos I took while repotting caps and rebelting the various drive spindles, so I should be able to rebuild the document in parts. So I should be able to provide details on how to recondition and replace electrolytic caps, and some belt replacement surgery and shortcuts, and so on. If anyone is still interested, please let me know and I'll put something together very quickly.
More useful (hopefully!) are the high-res scans I've re-done of the circuit diagrams for the Beocord 1600 (B&O documents 9224031K and 9224035H). These are now available in commercial print-ready (1200dpi) and small format (300dpi) in almost any image format you'd like. These have been painstakingly hand-scanned from the original diagrams enclosed in the unit (not from the PDFs that Peter and others have provided), so they're as good as I know how to make them, and hopefully it shows! They have all been completely hand-edited and hand-recoloured, so the original 2-colour (black & red) is now looking better and crisper than ever before!
Obviously, these are quite large documents (even as jpegs, the high-res images are around 45Mb each, and the BMP or PNG formats are around 450Mb each, with the 300dpi images around 5Mb each for the high-quality JPEG format), but I'm happy to provide them zipped and downsampled and recompressed to 4-bit colour (or anything else) if that would help.
If anyone is interested, again, please say so. I'm not going anywhere (and I've made some backups this time), so just either PM me or add a reply and we can figure out if these will be useful or not.
Meanwhile... If anyone has a copy of the Beocord 1600 manual, I would very much appreciate obtaining a replacement copy. For some reason, I printed out all the odd pages of the manual, but I'm troubleshooting the playback preamp and amp stages for one channel with a lot of 50Hz hum, so I can trace about half the steps I need to identify the trouble spot(s) from the circuit diagrams and part of the text, but the rest is a bit.. overwhelming... If anyone can help, I'd really appreciate it!
Kind regards,
"Missing my data" Pete
Data is not Information; Information is not Knowledge; Knowledge is not Wisdom.