Thanks so much for this wonderful lesson! I’ve got 2 of these TT’s with 4 good cartridges/styli. Both with same problem - now repaired!

"DIN". Excellent! Learned something new today - who to blame for years of having to deal with awful soldered DIN connectors! Also Roxette. Great album, came out in 1988 If I recall. First CD I ever bought.

With modern turntables (meaning electronic rather than mechanical speed control) the only two solutions for too fast or too slow platter rotation is either a belt replacement or a rheostat replacement. The motor speed is actually controlled by a rheostat.

Nice fix, I still own an old Pioneer stereo system with a record player, although I have never actually used it ! (the entire thing is in storage), the last time I tried it out it still seemed to mostly work, but I expect that won't be the case when I look at it next time, might end up being a repair video one day.

NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA! She's got the look. Thanks for the ear worm!

Yep, not much you can really do after the belt with these AC synchronous motor based turntables, other than disassemble the motor, clean and relubricate the bearing and shaft ends. Can be an absolute nightmare. The speed adjust control you found likely changes where the belt rides on a tapered shaft of the pulley. Thats only intended for fine speed correction really, maybe 5% at the most. Another thing it might be worth doing, is looking to see if there are any phase shift capacitors driving the motor. I had a Dual turrntable like this that used the infamous RIFA polypropylene capacitors that crack (and let the magic smoke out) with age. The turntable would actually run backwards on occasion until I replaced them!

Great job =D I learned something today - DIN origin!

Nice fix. A shame that the cartridges are out of production. Perhaps it's time to pull my old AKAI AP-Q41 out of storage. You're always inspiring me. :)

This is still my all time favorite record player. It's design could have been done yesterday instead of 50 years ago

Speed ajustment wheel is located at the left side rear of unit. The spinle motor takes 5 minutes to come up to speed. Their 60hz motors had problems.

Anyone know the size spec for the turnable belt? thanks

Strobe is on the platter !!! Under the record

The black bars on the platter are for speed calibration.

First of all, the motor has to be cleaned and lubricated, but also the belt has to be wobbly, so the old belt is nice! The new (cheaper) ones are too rigid, so that the speed change is very hard and the idler wheel is forced too strong to the motor shaft. I made that experience few days ago. I bet that it would run even a little faster, when you use the old belt now.

When you put the record on with one hand, you lost me.

Thank you very much for this video. I live in Victoria, Australia and we only have one approved B&O repair centre in the state. I dropped off my B&O Beogram1203 turntable six and a half months ago which had been in my parent's storage for years and stopped working. The business I dropped it off at still hasn't fixed it and has come back to me with excuse after excuse after excuse and honestly don't appear motivated in the slightest to find solutions. Basically from what they've told me it needs a new belt and idler. These parts, in Australia at least they've told me are out of stock. I've asked if they can make enquiries into Europe and get back to me however each time I hear nothing from them and it's me that has to call them weeks later. I'm basically at my wit's end. Would you know Jan what my chances are of finding these parts? Cheers.

To lubricate it properly you need to take out the bronze bearings, clean them in alcohol and infuse the bearings with new oil under vacuum pressure.

i have no idea where you got those green screwdrivers, but i have the same ones, never seen anyone having them =) live in norway btw

Can you tell me what you did with the thin wire from the lift switch? You stated in the video that didn't know where it went and were going to investigate, then nothing more about it?! Curious as I have one of these in bits on my bench with the same issue. The service manual makes no reasonable reference to it as far as I can tell.

I was just trying to fix exactly the same problem on my old 1203 !!😁 Exactly the same turnable. But as it happen in your case, it is still running slow. And what is more funny that the switch is also not working sometimes. Maybe we have the same serial number as well :)

Great video, where did you get a new belt for this model? Please?////

Hi. I'm trying to find a replacement belt for the beogram 1203. What size is the belt? Does it have to be round? Thanks

Schöner alter Plattenspieler!

Soundsmith makes replacements for the B&O cartridges.............very expensive . I have a linear tracking B&O but no longer a cartridge for it ...pity ( out of my budget ) ..

Jan Beta, your accent shows you to be somewhere in Europe, in which case the power supply there will be 220-240 Volts @ 50 Hz line frequency. If this turntable is running slow, check first the line frequency setting. The voltage may be correctly set but the line frequency setting may have been overlooked as many people don't realise there's more to electric power than merely volts. there's line frequency(constant stream of power arriving at so many cycles per second, or "Hertz") and strength of power, rated in Watts.

Didn't work for me.

Darn, I spent some time staring at records spinning around. In my memory though 33 revs was a lot quicker...

Aww. I thought you were going to actually repair this. It's not that hard. The motor is not that complicated, since they use a sintered bearing, which has a thin long lasting lubricant that will literally last up to 40 years before you need to give it attention. But when it needs it, you need to take it apart and use some very pure thin machine oil and do it before you ruin the bearing by spraying silicone into it and it scores and you never get it to spin up to speed. Simply take the motor housing screws out and then you may have to do a little battle with the housing which is crimped into place, and then sandwiched while the paint is still wet to seal the internals... but if your bearings are still good... clean them out thoroughly with a q tip and alcohol... or toulene... or naphtha (the last two more acceptible but harder to find) and then oil it and hope that it hasn't gotten too bad! It will likely work right away, the true test is if it stays working and the bearing accepts the oil and hasn't been fouled by the rancidified oil that was in there for so long. Good luck!

You should remove the pic up when you are repairing,,,!

How s about too fast I have technics sl 23 belt drive

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B&O used to make such nice stuff. They were the pride of Danish design. Now I have no clue why they're still around.

A quick fix or repair? It is not repaired. Why did you upload this? After 30-35 years the motor needs to be taken apart and each end of the rotor must be oiled with a light oil. I mean the wicked cup the rotor sits in. Just two drops on the wicks in the cups. Spraying the rotor shaft does nothing. Most persons from your country are not lazy.

As with everything these days, the company now only exist as a brand. Samsung bought the automotive division some time back and a Hong Kong company bought the audio and stereo division along with the manufacturing plant in Czech Republic. Goodbye B&O.

That video gave nothing. Do not fix the problem of the low speed. Spraying into the engine is bad. That model had a bad engine. The only thing that helps is to switch to a new motor.