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Post by theshea on Dec 14, 2021 7:26:31 GMT -6
i have a few electric guitars and i am not playing live like for 8-9 years now. so the guitars lived in my recording studio all the time. they got used for recording. a few more than others. now 3 guitars have developed pickup selector malfunctions: some pickups don‘t make sound when selected. contact spray only helps for a few days than they return to not working like before. the 3 guitars are a danelectro, a hagstrom and a gretsch. so various quality guitars. so it‘s not just down to cheap quality parts.
but others don‘t suffer from the problem: a rickenbacker, a cheap bass, my fender tele, a old no name guitar from the 60‘s ... is it my studio climate? it stays rather even all year long. 20-22 celsius, humidity changes a bit in the summer, from 60-75 degrees.
is that the problem?
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Post by svart on Dec 14, 2021 10:13:19 GMT -6
Hard to say, but the depth of the contact corrosion is probably playing the biggest part. I've had extremely expensive silver connectors tarnish to the point of never coming back and cheapo tin-plated connectors last forever. Sometimes the chrome ones last, sometimes the nickel ones are better. Sometimes not.
I don't think the "cheap parts" theory really holds up based on all my experience.
But the fact that they'll work with contact spray and then stop working sounds like any grease that might have been in the contacts might be all dried up, or perhaps the corrosion is flaking or something. This is where I'd take a look at the contacts themselves and perhaps brush them with some cleaner to help dislodge whatever it is breaking the connection.
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Post by theshea on Dec 14, 2021 10:58:26 GMT -6
i guess i have to take them all to a tech and do a proper job.
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Post by stratboy on Dec 14, 2021 17:20:23 GMT -6
Try DeOxit D5, as opposed to typical contact cleaner. No guarantees, but it has helped my guitars sometimes.
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