I haven't had time to work on it lately but will keep you up to date. The holidays are keeping me busy

one more issue... in my excitement that the tonearm was dropping at cue I missed the fact that it was dropping with or without an LP on the platter. Do I need to adjust the sensitivity? or is it possibly that the 6volt grain of wheat lamp I used is just off specs and not pulling the right current? and or will it function if the photocell is fried? I

I got the damper adjusted it's working pretty darn well now, the cartridge seems pretty decent too. Thanks so much for the help Olly I would have banged my head against the wall for a lot longer with out your help. Bob No just to put it all back together and I'm done

and I should kick myself the shutter was being limited by the limiting plate on the tracking arm. duh. I do need to correct the rate of the arm drop it is extremely slow. 2-3seconds but other than that I think we're in business

As i looked through the forum and service manual I'm thinking it is probably the tracking circuit as 1 or 2 of the trim pots seem a bit corroded looks like I might be doing some replacement there too.

I removed and soaked the parts and relubed them, That was the problem with the the arm dropping (still must have been a tad gooey). the lamp is working the solenoid fires at lead in and the arm drops. Now I have the arm racing across the record. I'll look at the service manual to try and diagnose but If you have had this issue I would appreciate

Ok Thanks for all the advice Olly, I will strip it down fully and soak the old lube off the relube and reassemble and yes I have replaced the belts. I think it might be what you think; A: the drop mechanism is still gummy and B: the lamp is the wrong specs so drawing wrong on the circuit and effecting the reading. Hopefully we can get this table going

I didn't fully strip and dip the components I will do that and I will try to get a proper bulb you're probably right that it is the rating on the bulb messing with things and my idea of smooth and what it really should be is probably different . It does changes speed at the 45 zone on the ruler so I think the position sensor is working. Does

Yep the lamp works and is as close as i could get. could it just be as simple as adjusting the photo sensitivity of the sensor?

I have a beogram 4002 that seems to be functional in all but one very important aspect. When start is pressed the tone arm travels toward record start but does not stop at record edge (lead in) nor does the tonearm drop. The sensor lamp was burnt out and has been replaced but still no response at record edge. drop mechanism (solenoid, arms, damper etc