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Subject: Re: [motm] Sodering advice

From: Geoff <overand@...>
Date: 2006-03-21

Fortunately for us, all the pots us MOTMers use are sealed, unless I'm
mistaken.

-Geoff, probably lugging his MOTM off to a gig for a duet with a maniac
who plays feedback mixer and has a more unruly beard than ∗I∗ do!

Robert Holmström wrote:

>I don't know about SPectrol pots, but I have noticed that many OMEG pots
>have some kind of grease in them. If you get this on your fingers and later
>twin the strands of a wire it is impossible to solder that wire. And that
>grease is really sticky, you can't wash it away and hardly rub it off
>either... so just try not to touch the wiper pin...
>
>Robert
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