Hi Martin, Thanks for your advice - it looks like the screw at the front is short enough. It doesn't quite protrude beyond the plastic. Once I recieve the replacement ICs, I've been thinking about putting them in sockets. Could this cause any problems considering it's an RF circuit? Ian

It sounds like wise advice to not fiddle with adjustments right away. I'll probably try measuring the voltages that the tuner ICs are seeing with them in and out of circuit - that might shed some light on whether there are any shorted transistors in the circuit. I already made sure the tuner boards wouldn't deliver any dangerous voltages to

Hi Everyone, I'm new to this site and have just spent the past day or so reading many interesting posts in the Workbench forum. Looks like there are lots of passionate and talented members here :-) The Beomaster 8000 was given to me for free, but dead. I decided to take on the challenge of saving it because I became enamored with the design and