[AMRadio] Best product for noisy potentiometers?

[Jim Hill]

Kim: How did you apply the F5?  Did you remove the pot and pry off the 
rear cover, or just squirt it around the shaft with the pot still 
installed, or ???  Probably just wishful thinking, but I have some hard 
to remove pots that need cleaning.
Jim, w6ivw


On 5/11/2013 8:31 AM, Kim Elmore wrote:
> Thought I'd report back on my experience with the Caig F5 Faderlube 
> product: my test case was a Yeasu FRG-7700 receiver with almost 
> unusably noisy potentiometers. It had been my Dad's and those pots 
> were in awful shape.
>
> I followed the directions, flooded the pots with the stuff, cycled 
> them a few times, did it again, and then tried it. The results were 
> perfect: the controls are now electrically clean. No noise and they 
> operate smoothly. As far as I'm concrened the stuff works as advertised!
>
> 73,
>
> Kim N5OP
>
>
> On 4/19/2013 10:17 AM, Kimberly Elmore wrote:
>> I have some noisy potentiometers on a Yeasu FRG-7700 receiver, along 
>> with a
>> noisy RF gain pot on my HQ-170. What's the best stuff to apply to it 
>> to help
>> clean and quiet these pots? I have two flavors of DeoxIt --D-series and
>> S-series. Do I need the F-series for this, or is one of these a good 
>> choice, or
>> is there something else better?
>>
>> Kim N5OP
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