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Old 15th Jan 2020, 2:09 pm   #1
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Default Dial Cord Beomaster 1400

Hello All,

I am trying to restring a Beomaster 1400 which will require a degree of patience.

So as I don't get it back to front as it were, can anyone tell me whether the vanes in the variable tuning cap should be fully meshed - or fully unmeshed - when the dial pointer is at the low end of the FM band (87 MHz)?

Counter-intuitively, the dial scale has the low numbers at the right hand end.

Many thanks,

Simon
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Old 15th Jan 2020, 9:56 pm   #2
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Hi Simon,
At the lower frequency the v cap will be fully meshed
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Old 16th Jan 2020, 1:40 am   #3
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Thanks, Pete
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Old 20th Jan 2020, 12:43 am   #4
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Hello,

I'm going slightly off topic here, but while going googly eyed figuring out how to restring my ancient Beomaster, I notice the set has been "got at" - quite neatly - which maybe suggests some sort of professional bodge.

There is a small square of very thin plywood separating two of the AM and FM tuning coils, and what look like thin veroboard inserts into the AM/FM detector coil.

Does anyone care to hazard a guess as to what might be going on here?

Haven't powered this up yet, as I'm not happy with the mains switch so I can't comment on functionality.
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Old 20th Jan 2020, 8:14 am   #5
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Default Re: Dial Cord Beomaster 1400

The plywood between the cans could be forcing a bad joint to make contact, don’t know about the veroboard in the cans.
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Old 20th Jan 2020, 11:28 am   #6
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Thanks, Frank.

I will reflow them.

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I don't know that set, but I recognise that the "IFT can" is a small daughter-board in a screening can, maybe the AM detector or something
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Old 20th Jan 2020, 2:29 pm   #8
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Hi Julian,

So what I thought was a veroboard insert could be part of the daughter-board? It is indeed an FM/AM detector.

Interesting.

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