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This is an interesting one, I've recently acquired a CD50 which needed the drive belt replacing. After following the instructions - opening the drive, removing screws and the top assembly, I had a problem when it came to removing the metal nut holding the big cam in place, unfortunately the whole thing came out, nut, cam and spool as well. As these are pressure riveted to the base, is there any way of reattaching it? I tried lots of things, but it just wont bond to the base of the machine.
The only way will be to thread the brass shaft I'm afraid, so that you are able to screw it back to the chassis. Any workshop can do that and the cost will be low.
Forget about glueing it.
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Thanks for the message Chartz, I should be able to have this machine back up and running again shortly. This is one of my preferred B&O CD players although I haven't worked on one for a long while. I've recently had quite a number of DVD1 come in with the same faults occurring. The laser assemblies don't seem to last very long. This is mainly on the older models with the Philips assemblies. The build is relatively good, but this has been a common fault I'm encountering.
On the BGCD50 the thing I had found in the past was the distortion, the DVD1 seems to have this when playing Audio CDs. any ideas?
My areas of expertise are on beocenters, VCR and beogram turntables. Mostly the older models. I don't have the experience on the newer B&O equipment.
bman: On the BGCD50 the thing I had found in the past was the distortion,
Probably the motor bearings needing cleaning and lubrication, I had several failures because of this.
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