Meat Plow wrote:
On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 16:26:01 -0000, "Arfa Daily"
wrote:

"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message
...
Take a look at this tuner..

http://www.niji.or.jp/home/k-nisi/5t50.html

I bought one of these (and the associated Lux LRS amplification) over 30
years ago. Some months back I pulled it out and set it up in my bedroom to
drive a pair of Mission speakers.

This equipment had been sitting unused for almost 20 years, and it had
(and
still has) quirks that need fixing. Most of them are related to dirty
switches and controls.

One of the worst problems was the Tuning buttons on the 5T50. As with many
dirty or aging switches, a single press caused multiple closures. Tuning
was
extremely clumsy, as the frequency would jump multiple channels with a
single press.

"Look! Up in the sky!"

So I pulled the lid off to clean the switches. Uh-oh. They were sealed and
there was no obvious, simple way to remove or open them. What to do?
Working
on the principle of "try anything", I pulled off the buttons. This isn't
difficult -- they snap into place -- but there's this huge, weak spring
that
provides the restoring force. You don't want to lose it.

I guessed that the button's shaft directly poked the switch contacts. So I
squirted some cleaner into the switches.

Bingo. The switches now work correctly.

Sometimes things work out just fine.

--
"We already know the answers -- we just haven't asked the right
questions." -- Edwin Land


The 'way in' to sealed square shafted selector switches is often, as you
have discovered, the gap around the shaft. Decent switch cleaner / lubricant
seems to have good creep and penetration characteristics, and a good squirt
up the shaft gap, will, in most cases, find its way into the switch body,
and do a decent job of restoring contact.

Arfa


I've been using an attachment for guitar pots that screws atop the pot
and allows the cleaner to squrt down the shaft. Saves a lot of time in
some cases and can be used on anything with a similar pot.

Ooooo.....where did you get that rascal? I've an old Double Beat Wah
that I tried to clean using the shaft method but it never seemed to
work. The product you mentioned sounds interesting....thanks. :-)