noisy volume pot

Have a look at the Miller-Stephenson website and check out their aerosol contact cleaners as they are very effective (www.miller-stephenson.com)

We have used their products very succesfully over many years to good effect. The best for cleaning pots has been their MS-200 but not sure it is still available

An alternative only if you can gain direct access to the surface requiring cleaning/lubricatation is to lightly spray on WD-40 and ensure you wipe off the residue as it will attract dust, etc and eventually cause more problems

Hope this helps, regards,

Richard

Go to Chicken Shack (aka Radio Shack) and pick up a can of "tunner cleaner", great stuff.
Happy listening

Beware of cleaners also containing an oily lubricant which will, as Richard cautions, attract more dust into the control. This will work for awhile but then eventually degrade back to noisy again. Electrowash is a good dry-type cleaner that I've used successfully many times. It is basically an industrial product, available from well known vendors such as Allied Electronics or Newark, among others no doubt. I'm sure there are other products of similar dry composition.

Two better alternatives which I believe are better then the ones stated above are, Caig D5 or LPS #2 cleaner and lubricates. You can get either one at, WWW.MCMelectronics.com or call me at 561-692-2535 M-F 9-5. fro there #.

I clean DOZENS of potentiometers on a daily basis. Take a look at this post that i did over on AA some time ago. It might help you or some others out in the long run... Sean
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