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Default Bourns Pot Shafts Not Long Enough!

In article , Paul wrote:
"Rebuilding" as in trying to fix the original pot?

Ok, I've cracked it open. There are two fingers for the variable
resistance wiper, and two for the center pin. I will try to gently
bend these metal fingers up, so that they touch the traces again, and
then clean with the Deoxit Gold that I just bought (the guy at the store
said everyone swears by it!).


Before doing that, you should have tried just squirting some cleaner in there.
There's seldom any need to actually take the pot apart.

You don't want the Deoxit Gold, you want the less aggressive stuff that has
a lubricant in it, like FaderLube, which is also a Caig product and should
have been on the same shelf. But try the gold cleaner and see.
--scott


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