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Topic: Cleaning pots in amp |
Tom Callahan
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Dunlap, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 9 Jul 2004 2:02 am |
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What is the best procedure to clean pots in a peavy Nashville 400 amp. I have some contact spray from Radio Shack. I think that will do the trick. Or is there a better cleaner?
I was just wondering if I have to take them out of the amp and disassemble them.
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Tom Callahan
Emmons S-10
Rayline SD-10 (#46)
[This message was edited by Tom Callahan on 09 July 2004 at 04:28 AM.] |
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John Pelz
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Kettering, Ohio, USA
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Posted 9 Jul 2004 5:43 am
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| This might help with your first question, though I don't know about your 2nd question, ie - whether disassembly is necessary. |
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C Dixon
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Duluth, GA USA
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Posted 9 Jul 2004 7:15 am
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There is little likelyhood of damage to any pot in a musical instrument amplifer using off the shelf contact cleaner sprays, since these pots are generally as "low tech" as you can get.
Contact cleaners CAN be harmful to the more exotic and hi tech type pots made for space age printed boards etc. Some cleaners can actually disentegratd some of the very highly sophisticated pots used in high tech industries. They do require special cleaners. But a musical instrument or musical instrument amplifer, does not fall into this category.
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Billy Woo
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Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Posted 9 Jul 2004 9:43 am
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I recently bought a Webb and the pots were pretty dirty, I got the right size allen wrench and used a product called Deoxit #5 which was recommended to me by my local music repair shop. It did the trick in spades..Radio Shack might have it or perhaps you could go on line and find it on the internet. Hope this helps.
Bronco Billy
Zumsteel U-12 |
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Mark Herrick
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Bakersfield, CA
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Posted 9 Jul 2004 11:45 am
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DeoxIT D5 is good and will work but is really made for deoxidizing metal contacts such as switches, jacks, etc. (The link John provides contains a response I made before I discovered the following.)
I believe most control pots that you will run into in guitar amps, volume pedals, etc. are carbon-based, so it makes sense to use a cleaner/lubricant designed for them. CaiLube MCL (made by the same company as DeoxIT D5) is described as a "Precision lubricant for conductive plastics and carbon-based controls."
I used CaiLube MCL recently on a Nashville 400 and thought it worked great.
http://www.caig.com/
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Tom Callahan
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Dunlap, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 9 Jul 2004 12:18 pm
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Well I got her sprayed down and it cleared up around 95 percent of my problem. Think one more good turn at it will get it all out.
Thanks for all your help.
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Tom Callahan
Emmons S-10
Rayline SD-10 (#46)
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