Beogram 8000: Mechanical Adjustments, Carriage Belt and Spindle Lubrication

After restoring the brake circuit, the Beogram 8000 that I am restoring right now started to work again pretty well. But before a test drive I wanted to make the necessary mechanical adjustments, install a new carriage belt and clean the carriage slide mechanism.

Here are a few impressions of my progress:

The arms were quite out of whack. Both lateral,

and vertical parallelism were off considerably:

The lateral adjustment is easily done with a screw on the left side of the carriage assembly:

The vertical adjustment unfortunately requires that the carriage is take off the rails and turned around to get to the screw that is underneath:

This was the perfect moment to give the dirty spindle

a rejuvenating clean and lube:

I also cleaned the rods and put a bit of silicone grease on their surfaces. Then I put the carriage back on and checked the vertical parallelism:

Very nice! Add a new belt:

and the unit was close to be ready for a test drive. If there just weren't those (as usual) fallen off aluminum panels!