It's DIGITAL NOT A SLIDER POT!!
yes and no. It's a cheapie control. Typically they're using conductive
and non conductive 'spokes' with rotary sliders running across them to
generate the digital signal, usually a quadrature square wave. If the
sliders or the conductive spokes get dirty/intermittent you get extra
glitches which will give you a screwed up count or no contact which will
give you no count at all, hence intermittent control or no volume.
An awful lot of all-in-one small stereo's suffer from this.
The bad news is the pot is probably sealed so good luck getting cleaner
into it.
And if it is a all-in-one small stereo good luck getting at the control!

tomh

"Jim Land" wrote in message
. 3.44...
"Chris F." wrote in news:AHeXg.4049$cz.58002
@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca:

the trouble seems to be in the volume control section.
Maybe this thing just isn't worth bothering with.......

CLEAN THE DANG VOLUME CONTROL!!!