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Having dug my Beogram 4500 out of storage, renewed the cartridge MCC4 tracking weight of 1.2 grams, and replaced the belts these have not stopped the deck skipping tracks and getting stuck in a groove. The tone arm moves very freely although when it drops onto the record it does swing to the right?
I am waiting some grease to arrive but currently the tone arm does move very freely to the centre of the album. The tone arm does swing very freely to the left and right. One other annoyance, when the stylus hits the vinyl it momentarily slows the turntable and immediately regains speed?
At a bit of a loss any ideas?
Where did you get the new belts from?
Regards Graham
wogga383: Having dug my Beogram 4500 out of storage, renewed the cartridge MCC4 tracking weight of 1.2 grams, and replaced the belts these have not stopped the deck skipping tracks and getting stuck in a groove. The tone arm moves very freely although when it drops onto the record it does swing to the right? I am waiting some grease to arrive but currently the tone arm does move very freely to the centre of the album. The tone arm does swing very freely to the left and right. One other annoyance, when the stylus hits the vinyl it momentarily slows the turntable and immediately regains speed? At a bit of a loss any ideas?
Does the arm assembly move by it self if you lift the pickup during play, and then push the arm to the left ? Then the carriage should start moving to the left also ? The carriage detects if the needle arm goes out at an angle, and will try to catch up.
/Weebyx
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Cheers Weebyx, I have resolved the issue, the tone arm assembly always moved very freely, even if I tilted the deck it would slid easily to the left. I had a close look at tone arm assembly and was concerned the arm moved to right by a mom or so on its way down. I checked all the settings as per the manual and realigned it to check it was parallel. I don’t think I made a massive adjustment but since the tone arms drops straight, as a consequence it now has stopped skipping.