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WD-40 to make clean a volume pot?????

• Thread starter TheTaylorplayer
• Commencement engagement Apr 15, 2009

• #one

Hello to all:

Can a small shot of WD-40 be used to make clean a volume pot? I know that "deoxit" and the like is recommended - simply would a small corporeality of WD-40 or pure silicone piece of work also? Keeping in mind the need to remove any excess right away.....

Thanks in advance!
TheTaylorplayer

• #ii

Hmmm I've never heard of that. I would stick with the deoxit or contact cleaner.

• #iii

i take used wd-forty on a volume pot of an old ii channel mixer, information technology got rid of the static connection very quickly...

• #four

Hmmm I've never heard of that. I would stick with the deoxit or contact cleaner.

+1 also

• #5

What agreat forum... two answers already!!! Getting Deoxit volition hateful driving 30 miles each style... and there's already that tin of WD-twoscore simply sitting in that location in my garage Put, I do desire fault on the side of caution.

Has anyone tried compressed air? I was told that might work also (to take the "crakle" away).

We used to use information technology a small electric shop I worked at (maintianing fully computerized "SCATS" traffic signals at ane,200 locations) on relays and the like.... seemed to do well if not overly practical.

Delight go along the responses coming - thank you!
The Taylorplayer

• #6

Would an car repair shop likley take contact cleaner? That would be much closer for me than an electronics store.

Just wondering....

• #7

WD-40 works very well.
I take been using it for years (I used to ain a Boob tube-VCR repair shop)

Some claim it's non ideal because a layer of oil stays and starts to collect dust simply I never experienced any of this.

One warning, it might make your pot feel very loose when done.

• #viii

Would an motorcar repair store likley have contact cleaner? That would be much closer for me than an electronics shop.

Only wondering....

Probably non.... don't yous have a Radio Shack near by?

Past the way on very old equipment, when everything else failed
we would use brake cleaner fluid, it would either save the day or kill the pot completely.
Don't try it!

• #ix

Just don't employ graphite: ruins conductivity and leaves residue.
Contact is okay, but best to get tuner cleaner from Radio Shack.
Shoot information technology sparsely into the pot while turning (don't overspray).
Try to go along it abroad from your finish if possible.
WD-40 volition do in a pinch, but electricians/techs carry & utilise tuner cleaner.

• #10

I would never use wd40 for the application you are talking about.

• #11

I accept been using it for years (I used to ain a TV-VCR repair shop)

Some merits it'due south not ideal because a layer of oil stays and starts to collect dust merely I never experienced whatsoever of this.

One warning, information technology might make your pot feel very loose when done.

Andrew - ane modest shot - on a recent (not-vinatge) pot? Safe enough for a uncomplicated try?

• #12

OK (I think I become it!) -- thank you to all -- tuner cleaner it will be.

Thanks!~!

TheTaylorplayer

• #13

I'd truck it to radio shack for their contact cleaner-some of the well-nigh useful stuff around imo.

• #14

Take you tried just working the pot back and forth? Sometimes that's all it needs. Requite it a minute or ii. If that doesn't piece of work, I'd recommend Caig Deoxit, or Radio shack Tuner Cleaner in a pinch. I have heard of people using WD-40, but it only doesn't seem like the correct affair to utilize if you can help it.

Last edited: April fifteen, 2009

• #fifteen

people seem to forget that wd-xl was used in distributor caps to get rid of wet, it certainly saved my ass when my trusty '77 firebird wouldn't first during a damp evening and lets confront it, a benefactor is a far more complicated piece of equipment than a pot..i find that some electronic cleaners evaporate far too rapidly before whatsoever "cleaning" is actually done...

• #17

I've used Wd-xl to loosen up old pots that have froze up.Deoxit wouldn't loosen them at all.
I so flushed the pots out with deoxit.
They're still working fine.

Last edited: Apr 15, 2009

• #18

Take another trip into your garage and run into if you have a can of carb cleaner. Carb/brake/pot/contact cleaner aerosols are all more than-or-less the same thing.

Be *very* careful with this stuff effectually lacquer finishes. Any of them volition dissolve lacquer rapidly indeed.

WD40 will work, but information technology's going to leave oil in your pot, which may atomic number 82 to crud accumulating later.

• #19

Hey everyone:

Pitiful for being then dumbo about the whole thing. I found a radio shack, and got 2 piddling spray bottles of "Deoxit and Dexoit Gold" (they came packaged together -- go figure?). One footling squirt into the little notch opening on the pots did the trick.

No more crackle, and it actually works as a truthful volume "pot" now - VS just "coming on" at about ix.

Thanks once more.

Peace,
TheTaylorPlayer

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