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Article #16940Re: Question: What to lubricate plastic pots with?
From: John Henders
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:49
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:49
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In <1993Jan9.202122.16992@n1gva> randy@n1gva (Randy - KA1UNW) writes: >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. > I'd say to not clean the bearing surfaces....just the wiper/resistive element. > I'd like to know what that grease is / where to get it. 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. -- "If Rush fans were braindead, why are there so Bruce Bufalini many people posting to alt.music.rush?" PSU
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!van-bc!jonh.wimsey.bc.ca!jhenders From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.audio.pro Distribution: usa Message-ID: <H.eg.TFB1_&Z7uTY@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca> Organization: One of these days for sure 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 23