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Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Beomaster 8000: The Recap Continues

I continued recapping the Beomaster 8000 that sits on my bench right now. I rebuilt the filter and tone control PCB that sits underneath the control panel, the two tuner PCBs, and the preamplifier board. As usual, I used quality Japanese 105C capacitors. I also cleaned all board connectors with a fiberglass brush to remove oxides, and then I coated them with DeoxIT D100L to protect them from future decay. Here are some pictures of the boards before and after:

Filter and tone control PCB before:

and after:

Tuner boards before:
and after:
and a detail shot:


And the preamplifier board before:
and after:
and a detail shot:
On to the main reservoir caps for the outputs! 













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