[Gertjan_89]

Hi Martin,

Thanks for your message. Do you have an advice on how to fix this? And how sure are you? The strange thing is that it starts lowering at the right moment, but just comes down too slowly in the beginning of the record.

Gertjan

[Gertjan_89]

Hi Mark, Christian and others,

I successfully cleaned everything and re-greased the pivots. The mechanism works smoothly again.

Yet there is still a problem. The tone arm still comes down too slowly. If I lower the tone arm at the beginning of the record, it lowers too slowly and it moves over the record. It starts playing at song 2 / 3. The strange thing is that when I lower the tone arm in the middle of the record, it falls immediately on that spot (as it should).

I have re-greased the plunger in the damper twice. Is this another problem? Or do I need to replace the plunger? Anyone have any advice?

I made a video of the problem (link below this post).

Many thanks again in advance!

Best wishes,

Gertjan de Boer

[Gertjan_89]

It works! Thank you so much. I don’t know why it works, though. I used the manual to adjust it and then tried again. I was surprised that suddenly the problem was solved.

Maybe something was stuck or covered with some dust. I have no idea. But now it starts as it should.

I hope this problem won’t return. I might work some more on it in the future. Because, yes, the tonearm does drop too fast.

Thanks for your help! Great that you are willing to share your knowledge, Martin, Mark and Christian.

[Gertjan_89]

Hi Christian,

Thanks for your message. I don’t think it’s the damper. I cleaned and relubricated the damper.

I think you are right about the linkage arm. The piece that is pushed away bij the plunger in the damper does not move back in its ‘natural’ position afterwards. It is stuck somehow.

I will take our the linkage arm and clean it, using this Beolover blog: https://beolover.blogspot.com/2015/12/beogram-4002-5513-rebuilding-arm-linkages-damper-adjustments-broken-SO-switch.html.

I will let you know if it worked. Thanks again!

Best wishes,
Gertjan

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