Cleaner for volume control

IMHO Caig would be preferable to WD40

Get the spray, use the little tube and be sparing

This should do the job http://store.caig.com/s.nl/sc.2/category.293/.f

Better get a local electronic shop can change the potentiometers , the replacement potentiometers are easy to source you may even upgrade from companies like Goldmoint, Tkd, Dact...unless your volume has remote then replace like for like.

If a This should do the job http://store.caig.com/s.nl/sc.2/category.293/.f

Better get a local electronic shop can change the potentiometers , the replacement potentiometers are easy to source you may even upgrade from companies like Goldmoint, Tkd, Dact...unless your volume has remote then replace like for like.

If the This should do the job http://store.caig.com/s.nl/sc.2/category.293/.f

Better get a local electronic shop can change the potentiometers , the replacement potentiometers are easy to source you may even upgrade from companies like Goldmoint, Tkd, Dact...unless your volume has remote then replace like for like.

Tim

What ever you do, don't use WD40, you will definitely need to replace the volume control if you do...There is contact cleaner for switches that is in a spray can which includes small tube adapter to localize the spray. The contact cleaner spray doesn't leave a film and drys almost instantly...Larry Stamper : Electrical Engineer...Instrument & Maintence Dept...large Chemical Maunfacture. The best thing to do would be determine what type of pot (log or linear & what resistance metion used) & it's resistance value and do an upgrade, if you know how. or you can find someone with some electronic parts replacement skills to help you.

The great thing about the Caig FaderLube that Timnaim so firmly recommended, above, is that it not only cleans theo pot, it lubricates the conductive plastic inside so it won't dry out again in a hurry. You can hear the grunge go away after you use it. Turn on the unit after the cleanup, swing the pot--grunge fades out and goes bye-bye.

I've cleaned pots with other stuff but the grunge always came back. Not with the Caig.

If you want to be compulsive about it you can flush the pot first with a spray of DeOxit (or something cheaper), till the cleaner drips out of it. Then twist the knob a few times and apply the FaderLube

Ljshape10...Did you ever actually try WD-40? (That arguement seems to work around here when talking about audio tweeks):-)

I use proper contact/control cleaner myself and agree that it is best. But I have used WD-40, and never had a problem due to it.