Saturday morning maintenance

Lerxst

Lerxst

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The crackling of dirty pots on both my SG and my AC15 have been driving me crazy for a little while but I couldn't find my contact cleaner. Swung by the shack and DAMN, 9 bucks for the wee can of contact cleaner.

Anywho, I decided that the amp wasn't too bad and shooting some cleaner at the shaft bushing would probably do the job there. Pulled the knobs off, shot the shafts, gave them a few spins in each directions & cleaned up the amp. Finished it off with a wipe down of megs natural shine which is kinda like armorall but not as greasy and low sheen. Looks pimp.:cool:

On to the SG...pulled off the knobs, removed all the nuts and washers so I could pull the whole harness out of the back of the guitar. These pots were really bad so they need the full treatment & I don't like spraying this stuff around nitro lacquer. Feed the harness through the arm of an old t-shirt that I can then wrap around the rest of the guitar to mask it off from over spray then I shot the pots and switch. Wiped down the guitar w/ a damp cloth and buttoned it back up.


Ahh. The knobs all turn smoothly and silently. Everything looks good and sounds great.:thu:
 
I'm going to try and clean the volume pot in my Suhr classic but I think the pot is actually shot and not dirty.
 
Mark Wein said:
I'm going to try and clean the volume pot in my Suhr classic but I think the pot is actually shot and not dirty.
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Contact cleaner is worth having on hand & it's usually worth giving problem pots a shot just to see if they can be cleaned up imo.... Course if the track or wiper is shot, it ain't gonna do it
 
yeah..this is more than crackinlng . it doesn't turn off all the way sometimes, and if you put any sideways pressure on the pot it changes volume levels. Its 10 years and a few hundred shows old so its justs kinda worn out.
 
Lerxst said:
Sounds like it's soldering iron time
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Yeah. I was just going to wait since I was going to send the guitar back to Suhr for what will probably end up being a full refret and have them do it with some other stuff that needs doing.
 
Mark Wein said:
Yeah. I was just going to wait since I was going to send the guitar back to Suhr for what will probably end up being a full refret and have them do it with some other stuff that needs doing.
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Doooo it! It probably takes longer for the iron to warm up than it does to swap out the pot :wink:
 
Lerxst said:
Doooo it! It probably takes longer for the iron to warm up than it does to swap out the pot :wink:
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yeah. Thats the one guitar I've been hesitant to do any work on myself. I have at least 2-3 guitars right now that need pickup swaps and other stuff so maybe I'll do it then.
 
Mark Wein said:
yeah. Thats the one guitar I've been hesitant to do any work on myself. I have at least 2-3 guitars right now that need pickup swaps and other stuff so maybe I'll do it then.
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I know it a Suhr, but it's still a Strat. I don't think you can hurt anything unless you decide to give the truss rod 25 turns.
 
yeah. It's just the one guitar that I don't like messing with since its the instrument that I use the most for working gigs.
 
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