Beogram 8000 (5613): A New Arrival from Virginia - First Impressions

I recently received a Beogram 8000 (Type 5613) from a customer in Virginia for a full restoration. The unit arrived safely packaged in a Beolover shipping container. No shipping damage occurred. I removed the unit from its packaging and put it on my bench:

The unit looks pretty good cosmetically. But the dust cover has the usual damages:

This could be fixed with a new cover from the DKsoundparts store in Denmark. The aluminum surfaces of this unit are all pretty good. The platter is almost flawless:

Of course the aluminum panels had come loose due to the usual deteriorated double sided tape:

The shield under the black plate that sits beneath the arms also fell off:

I put the unit into service position:

Then I removed all functional components and set them up on my rotating Lazy Susan work platform:

I removed the sub-platter and had a look at the platter speed encoder ("tacho") disc. Many Beogram 8000 still carry their original plastic disc, which are often delaminating causing severe fluctuations of the platter speed. This unit already had its plastic disc exchanged with a laser cut stainless steel replacement (also available at the DKsoundparts store):

After this visual inspection I plugged the unit in. The LED dot in the display became visible indicating standby. Usually a good sign, but in this case pressing start only elicited a brief movement of the carriage, followed by a total power blackout. After a couple seconds power came back and the carriage returned to its home position.

My guess is that this phenomenon has to do with the power supply of the deck, which probably has out of spec reservoir capacitors. This may explain why the power went out after moving the carriage for a few mm. We will see what happens when I am done with rebuilding the PCB. Stay tuned!