Hi Chris, The standard answer regarding manuals is to upgrade your membership here to a level where you can download them. My milage varies with these because I use a Sun Workstation in preference to a toy computer Cheers, Steve

Hi Chris, I've tried to look at a service manual but my version of acrobat doesn't handle it (I don't run Windows). Rather than guess wrong about the exact mechanism involved here I'll wait for someone who actually knows, but judging the speed of the little wheels by eye isn't easy. The decks I've worked on had a mechanical speed

If it needs a round belt then a flat one won't sit properly on the drive pulley - I'd expect it would derail and come off. If Martin cannot supply, and if your dealer fails to come thru, in your place I would try http://www.bang-olufsen-service.co.uk/ - they supplied me with a cassette belt that Martin didn't currently have in stock. After

Let's try that image again...

I haven't eyeballed the insides of a BM4000 but it sounds like what has broken is something like this? i.e. a wheel, into which a the string is pulled by a spring that wraps around the hub and hooks onto a lug? The idea of this thing is to keep the string tensioned even if it stretches a bit. If this is what we're looking at then I've successfully

I assume from this you can receive FM, just not in stereo? I wouldn't have expected the lamp alone to have made this difference - it didn't on either of my 1000's, anyway. Does this bit of your other 1001 work okay? Steve

Martin (ie Dillen) ought to be able to supply the correct ones. I got a set for my 2000 (the old one) and they were just the job - even had a tiddly one that fitted inside the glass shell of the lamp that was glued in! Steve

You're not alone! Am currently listening to a minidisc walkman recorder connected to a Beosystem 1000, which also has a Sony D-50 CD player attached. Oh, the shame! At least they're too small to look out of place. Cheers, Steve

Glad to hear all went well, and as expected. There's a good thread on capacitors in the Workbench forum, too. Cheers, Steve

Hi, "Stuck" is the word! To open up the RL35 remove the two plastic screws that anchor the straps, lift up the straps and slide them off the case (now is a good time to superglue the ends back together if the ends have parted), and then carefully lift off the fret - it is fixed on with several pieces of double-sided sticky tape (a long piece