[Boatanchors] Dial Stringing - Magic Solution To Cord Slippage

[Bob Bruno - K2KI]

I can stop reading now. Thanks for the tip. It makes perfect sense!

73, cul...
Bob de k2ki

Michael D. Harmon wrote:
> Hi Folks,
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> I work on guitar electronics frequently for a friend of mine who has a 
> steel guitar shop here in St. Louis.  Almost all of the older volume 
> pedals use a cord arrangement to move one or two pots when the pedal 
> is pressed down, raised up, or moved side to side.  I have seen every 
> kind of material used in an attempt to eliminate cord slippage.  Black 
> tar, belt dressing, beeswax, you name it.  Some of the stuff works 
> better than others.  Most of the "solutions" have one thing in common 
> - they all usually make a BIG mess!  It's not so much of a problem 
> until you have to replace a volume pedal pot.  A good steel player 
> will cycle a pot hundreds of times in one night's performance, so 
> periodic pot replacement goes with the territory.
>
> My wife is a violinist, and one night I was grumbling about having to 
> clean up the belt dressing mess inside a volume pedal with GooGone, 
> and she suggested violin rosin as an anti-slip solution.  I tried it 
> and I will NEVER go back to anything else!  You can get a small block 
> of rosin at any music store or violin shop (you don't need the 
> "concert quality" stuff - the cheapest rosin will work just as well), 
> and a small block will last forever.  Just hook the end of the dial 
> cord on something so you can pull it taut with one hand, and run the 
> block of rosin back and forth over the length of the cord a few times 
> to get all sides of the cord in contact with the rosin.  Your dial 
> cord will never slip again!  In fact, you have to make sure you've got 
> everything aligned before you put tension on the cord, because when 
> you do tighten the cord, it WILL NOT MOVE!
>
> I don't claim to be the "inventor" of this method, but it seems to be 
> the world's best kept secret.
>
> Mike Harmon, WB0LDJ
> mharmon at att dot net
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