This is super useful, Mika. Thank you! Dragos :)

Hi, lausvi :) Thanks for this - the button seems to be doing ok. I guess the way forward is servicing (just need to raise cash for it...) Cheers again, Dragos

That sounds very sensible, guys, thanks for all your help. Any hints of what price I should be looking at for the service? Finally (and because I don't want to start a separate thread for this), how much would you pay if you were after a white Beogram 5500 turntable (which I am)? I found one on ebay for 500 EURO from Europe, but my feeling is that

Latest development, guys :( When I eject the CD, quite often it'll go out and then back in in a couple of seconds. Other times it'll come out and stay there until I change the thing... Man, what on earth is wrong with it? :( :( Update: after more desperate digging, I found this post: http://forum.beoworld.org/forums/thread/67637.aspx and I did

Hi again, Peter Thanks to your encouragement, I went back to it and this time managed to get the cover off my Beomaster, Beogram CD and Beocord. Man, was the Beogram CD absolutely filthy on the inside! It looked like it had been kept in a haystack or something... I cleaned it up as best I could (Beocord and Beomaster, too), then put them back together

Hi, Peter Thanks a lot for this. I had a shot at taking the screws off last night, but I got stuck afterwards as the top wouldn't really slide off. I'll have another go at it, thanks for the reassurance. I too think using the vacuum cleaner is a bit extreme ;). It's the power cable that's eaten - I'll look out for another one. Thanks

Hi, everyone I have recently bought a white Beogram CD 5500 and it's been fine until a couple of days ago - it's now switching off whenever it wants (usually at the end of the first track of whatever I put on). I can sometimes switch it back on straight away using the MCP5500 (other times I need to eject the CD first...). The only thing I can