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Since there seems to be no information out there (just a bunch of loose ends in this forum), I figured I'd share my experiences with overhauling the cassette mechanism on my Beosound Century. And, more importantly, the parts list.
Belt: Flat belt, 4mm wide, my old belt had a diameter of 71,6mm, ordered a 70.0 mm x 4.0 mm x 0.55 mm belt, works fine.
Pinch rollers: 9,8mm diameter, width of 6,3mm for the rubber part, 7,3mm for the plastic part. The bolt is 2mm, however the hole is a press fit and more likely 1,95mm. I got 10.5mm x 7.2mm x 2.0mm (diameter x plastic width x bolt hole) pinch rollers as a replacement. Tried to glue down the bolt, as apparently the design of the deck relies on the bolt being fixed, and it slipped in the 2mm hole - tape speed was still uneven, so I ended up just pulling the rubber from the new rollers and the old rollers, and put the new rubber on the old plastic. Perfect fit, works fine.
Gears: Mine were still working somewhat, but had missing teeth and made that awful squeaking / clicking sound every now and then, especially after autoreversing. After lots of cross-referencing it turns out that the tape mechanism used is identical to the one in the Philips DCC600 - there's a person on eBay in Poland that sells reproduction gears for these, they are a perfect fit for the Century and work wonderfully.
All in all, that was around 40€ in parts, and my Century works great again for listening to terrible mixtapes.
Very good tips
Hi there!
Can you send me link for those gears? My Century has that same problem...took it to my B&O store and they told me the gears where defective and couldn't do anything because of lack of parts... :-(
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/164218450439
They seem to be out of stock right now, just write them a mail or wait some weeks.
Thanks! Will inquire the seller! :-)