embalmed sliders help

[Andrew Schrock]

Ahhh.. I've had much the same problem. Using standard pot cleaner on 
sliders for some reason tends to inhibit movement... the cleaner seems to
destroy or break down whatever lubricant comes on slide pots to begin
with. 

I remember once I had this problem with the slide pots on a technics
1200... turns out the bearings needed some additional lubrication or else
they totally froze up! I think I ended up getting an entirely new slider. 

WD40 is a cure-all lubricant... you know, cleans tires, lubricates
switches, makes a great dessert topping :) Lots of people swear by it, but 
I have no idea if it would be appropriate for lubing slide pots.... mainly
since I don't know how conductive the spray is. 

Andrew

| Andrew Schrock							|
| Network Programmer, Synthesizer and electronic music enthusiast	|
| aschrock at cs.brandeis.edu						|

On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Gronda Andrea wrote:

> I've sprinkled a dry contact cleaner, inside the fault slider and it
> still does not work, beyond it became hard as hell to move (sigh...I've
> sprinkled it also in a good slider!)
> The guy at the shop told me that this fuking spray was good to do the
> job...
> Is there anyway to restore original smoothenes of the sliders?
> What is WD40?
> Andrea
> 
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