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Volume pot problems with ebay Electrocompaniet Preampliwire IIA

I bought an Electrocompaniet Preampliwire IIA from a guy on ebay who claims it "works perfectly, completely re-capped, switches cleaned, etc...." the volume pots will not come close to attenuating to zero

Long story short; very amateurish job. The volume control is 2- 10K mono decks; 2 - balance decks, and the on/off switch. Its a PC mounted control. It appears that the repair shop bathed the pots in Deoxit to the point that the phenolic wafers that are the backs of each control are saturated. Could Deoxit cause a problem like the one I have described? I am wondering if they used a small brush or something that could have moved the wipers. Seems unlikely they could do it to both controls and get them identical.

Any one familiar with the pre-amp, or what might cause this problem? Thanks!

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Topic - Volume pot problems with ebay Electrocompaniet Preampliwire IIA - Michael Norona 11:32:37 04/06/14 (8)
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