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my explorer has a scratchy volume pot, so i bought a can of tuner cleaner to see if thatll do the trick, and i open up the control cavity to find that the little holes in the pots are too f*cking small to fit the little needle into to shoot the stuff in. i tried just getting the needle near the opening, but it all shot up in my face anybody have any ideas?

There is plenty of space to get spray into Gibson pots.
Here's an idea that works for me- take an old unwound guitar string and insert it into the plastic tube, take a lighter and slowly heat the tube until you can put a bend into it, let it cool, remove the string, and you will have a turn on the tube, making it easier to get up and into the pot.

cool idea, thanks

i tried it a couple times just shooting straight in (i had the wrong hole last time, i thought it went in the little holes on top). anyway, i think i just have a bad pot, its not helping. its not like theres just one scratchy point either. its 0-scratchy-10, theres no good spots in between, just on or off.

Yep, sounds like a bad pot. No pun intended!

ok so does anybody know what value pots gibson uses in recent explorers. i always assumed 300k, but i wanna be sure

The good news is the quality CTS pots are cheap....

right

so why doesnt gibson use quality ones in the first place! oh well. id be more pissed at them if i didnt love that guitar so much haha. the pot has been sh!t since i first got it though, its just gotten worse over time. now that i think of it, if i caught it early with some cleaner it probably woulda been an easy fix, but what can i say im lazy

Try 500k audio taper for your volume.

is that the value that was stock? cause i wanna keep the same, since as far as brightness goes, everythings just right (i have a JB in there mind you, and theyre supposed to be used with 250k pots really)


Originally Posted by ex-250right

so why doesnt gibson use quality ones in the first place! oh well. id be more pissed at them if i didnt love that guitar so much haha. the pot has been sh!t since i first got it though, its just gotten worse over time. now that i think of it, if i caught it early with some cleaner it probably woulda been an easy fix, but what can i say im lazyTotally agreed! As soon as I got my Standard, I replaced all the pots with CTS 500Ks and put in a set of Hovlands. Your right though, how much could it cost to use decent pots