Meat Plow wrote:

On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:26:30 +0000, Baron
wrote:

Arfa Daily wrote:



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.

That's interesting and very useful sounding. Where'd you get it ?
Any ref with a piccy ?

Arfa

Grab a neoprene cable sleeve and cut the narrow end to suit !

A person with relatively decent manual dexterity and household tools
could actually make one from aluminum or brass.

Agreed ! But a 20 cent sleeve does the job and it doesn't matter if it
gets lost or damaged in the tool box.

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Best Regards:
Baron.