Crackle on balance centre knob... Help???

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Apologies, but I am unrepentantly looking for some thoughts from the wise hifi viziers on this forum...

My Pioneer SA-5000 has distortion and crackle only on the centrepoint of its balance knob. Obviously where I usually plonk it!?

Is this a biggy? I love my hifi, vinyl, and music but as they say up here in the North “I divn’t naah owt...” about the technical goings on inside the machinery.. 😮

Any ideas/thoughts gratefully received.

JP 👍

[walpurgis]

It's probably a bit of dirt on the track inside the control potentiometer. If it was me, I'd buy a decent quality switch cleaner aerosol and give it a squirt from inside the case, then work the control back and forth a few times. That may sort it.

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Simple as ��... Will get down to my local supplier of such wonderful squirty things and give that a go. Dirty knobs, don’t you hate them ��

[Qwin]

Definitely try the contact cleaner before considering anything more drastic.
I recently sorted the controls on a mates Rotel amp from the late 70's.
I thought the crackly Volume control might be knackered, but a few squirts of said cleaner had it working smooth and silent.
Had the can a while, got it from Maplins, but that door just closed.
Probably get some off the web.

[337alant]

Deoxit D5 is the best cleaner Lube ive used, its not cheap but works very well and is a long lasting fix

http://store.caig.com/s.nl/sc.2/category.188/.f

Alan

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Thanks one and all for the thoughts on this will defo hint out some of that squirty saviour juice...