I am sorry to be a bit thick but which part is the capstan , is that on the motor drive spindle. Pat

Hi thanks for all the help so far. The machine is now working and the motor rumble is cured. However. there is a persistant regular pulsed interference that come through both speakers . It only comes through when it is in play mode so that the motor is turning , but does it even if there is no tape in the machine. It gets louder and more persistant

Finally got the Beocord 200 running. ThanksMartin for the small belt. Unfortunately the drive motor sounds pretty noisy , a bit of a rumble and there is a rhythmic interference type crackle that comes through the speakers which seems to be to a similar beat as the motor noise. This is a unit that has probably had less than 10 hours use since it was

Is that the smallest of the three, I was told it was for a counter that was not needed and BO could not provide one so it is not fitted, where can I get on from? Thanks for the info. Pat

I have just inherited a Band O sound set up . It has hadly been used and dates back to the 1980,s Th beocord 200 cassette player did not work so I have stripped it and replaced the belts. Unfortunately when you press play , forward or reverse , the solenoid clicks in and the clicks straight out again. On the Beogram amplifyer and tuner the touch sensitive