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Hi there
New to this forum and new to the world of beogam having just taken delivery of a 1700 from my father-in-law. It (the beogram, not the FIL) had been sitting very carefully packed in its box since 1989!
The lifting mechanism had siezed (which other threads suggests is quite common) but I've managed to fix that and the tonearm now lifts.
However, before I did so I was, stupidly, messing around with other things in and around the lift plate, including the threaded pin (2070034) and adjustment bushing (2576114) to see if they affected the lifting mech. They didn't, but the tonearm now doesn't lower in the right place, nor does the stop mechanism and tonearm-raising get triggered in the right place. Each time I make the slightest adjustment to the threaded pin (using the world's smallest alan key!) or the attached bushing, the change seems to be large and not altogether predictable.
I've read the service manual and it seems that the instructions for adjusting where the tonearm lowers and raises are for other models and don't translate to the 1700. And there's no reference to what these specific parts are actually for, either. So I'm a bit stuck.
What should I do to get the tonearm behaving properly again? Have I trashed the tonearm by messing with the thread / bushing?
Many thanks in advance.
See attached a screenshot of the relevant bit from the service manual re the parts in question.
Check out the procedure in the Beogram 1800 service manual as I believe it applies to your type as well.
Thanks Mark, much appreciated