Beogram 4004 (5526): A New Arrival from California En Route to the UK

I recently received a Beogram 4004 that a customer in California sourced on ebay. Unfortunately, the unit suffered during shipping since the seller did not package it correctly and so the brand new replacement hood that came with it got damaged. Once I am done with the restoration this Beogram will be shipped to the UK.

This shows the Beogram after I extracted it from the box:

The unit is in pretty decent condition. After cleaning the keypad a bit it revealed itself as almost pristine:

The plinth corners are also fairly good with only some minor chipping:

Unfortunately, the platter has a few small scratches:

The hood hinge has some corrosion:

And very sadly, the brand new hood that the ebay seller purchased for this unit lost a piece during shipping:

Luckily, reproduction hoods are now readily available so it will be easy to recover from this mishap.

After this visual inspection of the cosmetic condition, I removed the aluminum panels and had a look below deck:

As usual for the 4004 the transport locks are completely degraded and their fragments are strewn about the enclosure:

The carriage pulley is also cracked:

Luckily, all this can be fixed with new Beolover parts. 

I plugged the unit in and pressed START. The carriage started moving and the arm stopped properly at the LP setdown point. All good signs suggesting that the restoration will likely be straight forward.

Stay tuned for my follow up post, which will describe the work done on this unit to get it back to like-new performance.