Boegram CD50 carrige slow

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Helle all I am working on a Beogram CD50 where I have issues with the CD carrige movement. It is very slow, and when it reach the point where it has to lift the CD clamper it stops. I have replaced the Belt, and cleaned and re lubricated all the gears for the CD carrige movement, and this has helped to some degree. Also I can move it correctly by hand , so pretty sure I ahve alligened the gears correctly. This also verifies when I try to apply 5V to the CD carrige motor from an external power supply which makes it run smoother and also it is able to lift the CD clamper with this voltage. So now I am A little in doubt what is wrong:
  • Is the motor voltage correct, I Measure 4V/-4V when it is moving, but in the service manual it says 5v/-5V before the transistors around the motor, and as mentioned it runs smoother with 5V applied to it?
  • Could the motor also be prone to old lubricant that needs to be cleaned? If so what is the procedure for that, and do I need to dissasemble the whole rail system for the CD carrige to take of the motor?
Thanks in advance

Location: Denmark

Just to illustrate the issue I have made a small videoclip which shows where it stops in the end of the video

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In the video the raiser appears to lift at the end of the movement, that looks correct to me.

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And now after disassembeling and reassembeling things one more time I got it playing again 

Location: Denmark

Had some issues with CD’s not playing or starting 1-2 minutes into track 1. Reading in this older thread 
The spacers mentioned in the other thread did not fall of on mine so I let them be where the were and concentrated on cleaning and relubricating the shaft and bearing
Pressing the brass ring on the shaft again was actually harder for me than getting it of. It is easily pressed to much against the bearing making the motor hard to spin. I found that placing a guitar plector between the motor housing bell and the PCB when pressing the brass ring on gave just the right amount of clearance.
Aftewards it was just placing the CD spindle in the same distance as before disassembely and the reassemble the CD mechanism.
All in all I used maybe half an hour on this.
The result: Every CD I have tried no starts at 0.00 on track 1. Of course I have to long term test it, but I allready think this was worth it 😀
Next up the non responsive Beocord 5000 to keep the CD50 company

Location: Denmark

And just to round this up I have also replaced the three capacitors mentioned in Beolovers blogpost 
And it is working just great with full control 😀

Location: Denmark

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