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

Me showing you how to clean those noisy, and scratchy potentiometers, or controls on your vintage stereo's or radio's to bring them back to life.

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Howto & Style

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• craig1974
• potentiometers
• controls
• contact
• cleaner
• cleaning
• stereos
• radios
• vintage

[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.

[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!

[jchay55]

where my pen is.

penis.

haha im so immature.

[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.

[WTFizBAK71]

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

[JZAOUTLAW]

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

[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