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- From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders)
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- X-News: HERMES MMAIL 1.10 Rev. Dec 15 1992
- Subject: Re: Question: What to lubricate plastic pots with?
- References: <1993Jan7.193439.2295@umr.edu> <1993Jan9.202122.16992@n1gva>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 19:49:52 -0800
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- In <1993Jan9.202122.16992@n1gva> randy@n1gva (Randy - KA1UNW) writes:
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- >tome@cs.umr.edu (Tom Erb) writes:
- >:
- >: I maintain a small FM radio station, and we have many conductive plastic
- >: potentiometers in our mixing boards. These things are fairly expensive.
- >: They get noisy after a while, but if I take them apart and clean/lubricate
- >: them, they never feel nearly as smooth as they did before.
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- > I'd say to not clean the bearing surfaces....just the wiper/resistive element.
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- > I'd like to know what that grease is / where to get it.
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- As no one's mentioned it yet, a lot of people use Cramolin. It has a
- lubricant as well as a cleaner. You should still take the pots apart and
- clean them every so often, though, as Cramolin is reported by some
- studio enginers to crystalize after a while, which isn't very nice.
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