11-17-2013, 10:15 PM
One of the last touches - the volume pot behaved pretty bad so much so that when I measured it it was so patchy I did not have high hopes for the recovery and I posted on the parallel forum for the org part numbers (mine seems to be P26111 but it is very much obliterated so I was not sure I read it right) and replacements.
Meantime I blasted the pot with Deoxit, went away to a friend's birthday, had a blast, ate good ethnic Caucasian food (well, Brooklyn is at least good for that, otherwise I don't like it), came back, mixed some lithium grease with Deoxit, spread it by applying a little speck to the wiper, and, voila! - the scratch is gone and it is smooth as a baby's you know what. I totally did not expect it to work that well as it was really patchy and scratchy.
Now it's the treble pot's turn, it is a much better behaving pot, there is some scratch at the bass end, plus it is not volume so it is not that sensitive....still I want to repeat the experiment.
Meantime I blasted the pot with Deoxit, went away to a friend's birthday, had a blast, ate good ethnic Caucasian food (well, Brooklyn is at least good for that, otherwise I don't like it), came back, mixed some lithium grease with Deoxit, spread it by applying a little speck to the wiper, and, voila! - the scratch is gone and it is smooth as a baby's you know what. I totally did not expect it to work that well as it was really patchy and scratchy.
Now it's the treble pot's turn, it is a much better behaving pot, there is some scratch at the bass end, plus it is not volume so it is not that sensitive....still I want to repeat the experiment.
