How To Clean Those Scratchy Controls Or Potentiometer's On Your Vintage Stereos/Radios

[WTFizBAK71]

that looks exactly like my vintage stereo is that a JVC Nivico 555ou? 

[bertinouellet]

I love this guy. It's fun being a nerd...

[abedzilla]

1:24 minimum to max... minimum to max...

[SpeedFreakNO]

Will this help for a potmeter that makes noise in the signal when I adjust it?

[verbotenco]

Can I use carburetor cleaner instead to clean the pots of my amps?

[bareknuckles2u]

Good video! Less than two minutes...done! No grandstanding or any BS like so many other youtubers who want to be celebrities.

[submission123456]

Very Helpful Thank you!

[ianasdfg]

Thanks - v useful

[antiloqus]

thanks, very helpful

[2brello]

Here I am hunting for switch potentiometers with the correct stems to match the knobs on my vintage equipment. I never even thought of just spraying a little contact cleaner on it. I tried it on a Sony ICF-9650W with a dirty pot, sure enough, worked like a champ. Great advice!

[piklener]

Thanks for posting this video mate. It helped me to solve a "mystery" of a crackling/static noise coming out of my speakers when turning the volume knob up or down. Up until now "cleaning the pot" had a completely different meaning. Cheers.

[LPFan3118]

pretty cool,thanks for sharing!

[GrandCaravanSE]

How does that stuff work? i use DeOxit. but the stuff you use is much cheaper i know.

[MGoldProductions]

Simple and the the point. Great video, thanks!

[alanr1995]

do you know if this will work on a guitar?

[kolp10]

Hey Craig'74, thanks for this info and how-to. There's a lot of discussion on many forums addressing this problem, which means a lot of people are looking for solutions.

[killablooz]

Thanks for taking the time to show this.

[BMXorHOMICIDE]

YA SEE THE NOBS!!!!?? LMFAO

[sissyfagott]

contact cleaners shouldnt be used to clean pots because of the solvents that that can damage the carbon contacts inside , use tuner or control cleaner .. is not the same as contac cleaner because it had lubricants . pots need to be lubricate other wise gets worts with time .. use a good cleaner lubricant like deoxit. if you dont have that kind of money use tuner control cleaner from radio crap sorry radio shack,, but NEVER USE CONTACT CLEANER ..only for switches are metal to metal contacts.

[JZAOUTLAW]

@sissyfagott learned that the hard way on some vintage stratocaster pots...basically turned them to mush

[jchay55]

where my pen is.

penis.

haha im so immature.

[sigfurt]

you meen in the square hole?

[kanirip]

you take it and shove it inside that opening notch and shove it back and forwards

[Ajaces]

Very Good, you taught me something. Thanks.

[craig1974]

Your welcome! I just learned how to do that myself this past year from reading electronics forums. It took me years to figure out how to do that.

[ROBCRX]

WOW ! Im gonna try this on my Alpine 7909 car d player and my Pioneer SX 3700 Home amp. They are both very bad !

[JerryMopar]

Hey Craig, heres another way to do it for even cheaper (I use this technique at the St Vinnys I work at)

Take off all the knobs, and get some 90% (less water) isopropel alky. get a cotton swab, and dab some alky into the switch stem, turn the knob from min to max a few times, until the scratchyness dissapears. Ive saved many a stereo with this!

[craig1974]

thanks for the tip i gotta try that!

[alldrunkedup]

I aways thought the sratchy sound was because you hooked up the the wrong speakers for the amp.

[1G0TP1NK8C1DB00TS0N9]

I need to do that with my cheapo speakers in my bedroom for my music player. Well everytime you move the volume you get this horrible scratcher noise and its just so not pleasent. Thanks for sharing this video!

Peace :)