A customer from Massachusetts sent me his Beogram 8002 for a full functional restoration. It came well packaged in a Beolover shipping container and there was no shipping damage. This shows the unit on my bench after I unpacked it:
It is in pretty nice cosmetic condition. The hood has only minor scuffs. The aluminum surfaces are also pretty good:
The platter is nearly pristine. The veneer is very nice, too. The front corners are sharp:
I opened it up:
It is good leaning the top part against a wall or shelf since it can easily tip over to unhappy effect. I extracted all the functional parts from the enclosure and put them on my bench, a 'service position' of sorts:
As promised by my customer, after plugging it in nothing happened. No red dot in the display and no response to pressing any of the buttons. Based on previous experiences, it might just be a bad capacitor in the power supply or a cracked solder joint on the header that hooks up the transformer brick. Stay tuned for a full report on this restoration project.
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