How to clean pots?

afterburnt
afterburnt Posts: 7,892
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I got a bass amp from a friend and he said it works but maybe it needs one of the pots cleaned. I haven't even looked at this thing since I got it a few weeks ago. I don't play bass, I have no bass, but now I have an excuse to buy a bass and try playing it. Anyway what do I do after I gain access to its innards?
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,541
    A little Dawn and a scratch free pad does the trick.
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  • Mikey081057
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    :D:D:D
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  • mlistens03
    mlistens03 Posts: 2,767
    DeOxit is the thing to buy, and there are instructions on the can.
    Good luck learning to play bass, if it's anything like guitar, trust me it'll take a while but eventually, it can be done. :)
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    F1nut wrote: »
    A little Dawn and a scratch free pad does the trick.

    Would this also be suitable for my fine washables?
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,541
    afterburnt wrote: »
    F1nut wrote: »
    A little Dawn and a scratch free pad does the trick.

    Would this also be suitable for my fine washables?

    Are they greasy?
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • gimpod
    gimpod Posts: 1,793
    F1nut wrote: »
    Are they greasy?

    Most likely yellow in front and brown in back.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,962
    gimpod wrote: »
    F1nut wrote: »
    Are they greasy?

    Most likely yellow in front and brown in back.

    That's no way to talk about our beloved Lightman. !! Coal for you in your sock pal. :)
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  • gimpod
    gimpod Posts: 1,793
    Kool, I like coal!.
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  • nooshinjohn
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    gimpod wrote: »
    Kool, I like coal!.

    I don't think he means clean coal...
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    I put my pots in the dishwasher with some cascade and apple cider vinegar.
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,757
    EndersShadow wrote: »
    I put my pot in the dishwasher with some cascade and apple cider vinegar.

    Doesn't that make a little hard to light?

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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    ken brydson wrote: »
    EndersShadow wrote: »
    I put my pot in the dishwasher with some cascade and apple cider vinegar.

    Doesn't that make a little hard to light?
    Touché
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,437
    ken brydson wrote: »
    EndersShadow wrote: »
    I put my pot in the dishwasher with some cascade and apple cider vinegar.

    Doesn't that make a little hard to light?

    Ooooooo burn!
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    F1nut wrote: »
    afterburnt wrote: »
    F1nut wrote: »
    A little Dawn and a scratch free pad does the trick.

    Would this also be suitable for my fine washables?

    Are they greasy?

    Crusty yes, but never greasy!
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  • Mikey081057
    Mikey081057 Posts: 7,127
    Leaving stains in your underwear is nothing to be embarrassed about.... Leaving stains in someone else's underwear can be a problem tho....
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,791
    Folks I went to college with used to clean pot using an open copy of History of Eric Clapton.

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    Wait.
    What?

    Oh.

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    Cleaning pots.

    Here, you might wanna read this:
    http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/the-idiots-guide-to-using-deoxit-revisited.207005/

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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,114
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Folks I went to college with used to clean pot using an open copy of History of Eric Clapton.

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    Wait.
    What?

    Oh.

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    Better than the EC album cover B)



    Cleaning pots.

    Here, you might wanna read this:
    http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/the-idiots-guide-to-using-deoxit-revisited.207005/

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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    @mhardy6647 one time in a city far away I got busted with a double album full of stems and seeds. The detective said "this will take you straight down the drain" then he took me into custody on "other charges" what a dick.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,791
    edited December 2018
    The story goin' round when I was younger was that they actually and deliberately changed the design of LP gatefold sleeves (from a little 'ravine' in the hinge to a little 'ridge' there instead) to dissuade the dopers from using them to clean their dope.

    Of course, this also sounds like just the kind of bogus story The Man would plant to trigger that ever-present dope-catalyzed paranoia.

    B)
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,757
    afterburnt wrote: »
    @mhardy6647 one time in a city far away I got busted with a double album full of stems and seeds. The detective said "this will take you straight down the drain" then he took me into custody on "other charges" what a dick.

    We can say dick now? Vanilla is slipping....
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  • delkal
    delkal Posts: 764
    edited December 2018
    Cleaning dope is so 70-80's. Then was the last time anyone saw a seed or a stem?

    Good thing too. How many millennials even know what an LP is.
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,151
    edited December 2018
    I remember the days when seeds were involved. :D

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    I still have an original of the bottom one just in case. ;)
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,437
    delkal wrote: »
    How many millennials even know what an LP is.
    A lot their driving sales, and most do not have a player. Just buy to have to look at. At least a bunch around me do.

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,437
    Tony M wrote: »
    I remember the days when seeds were involved. :D

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    I still have an original of the bottom one just in case. ;)

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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,151
    ;):D
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • joecoulson
    joecoulson Posts: 4,943
    Lol. Young Micah was the only one who answered properly on this whole thread. Lmao!
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,437
    How well do you know Bruce? Sometimes the derailer gets...... derailed :D
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,791
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    How well do you know Bruce? Sometimes the derailer gets...... derailed :D

    someone say derailleur?

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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,151
    edited December 2018
    Back to the original post question then. ;):)

    I knew a guy who took the pots outs, took them apart and cleaned them and then the reverse procedure. OCD or just a guy with a lot of patience and a desire to see a job done to it's full potential. I was impressed to say the least.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,437
    Some pots have carbon contacts. With use some carbon falls away by design. This carbon builds up inside and basically creates other arc areas that are problems. Blow or flush out and back in business well until all the contact carbon is used up. Caig also makes a fader lube might give it a try after cleaning with the deoxit.
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