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I've cleaned some pots too much with contact cleaner. now what?

some feel just not lubricated enough (cheap, crappy mini pots) and don't move well, while others (more decent ones) just move too fast/easy for their application.

of course i was a bit too eager with contact cleaner (now i know :'), but ehat about contact lubricant? is there such a thing? I've never even heard about that. but i guess moving contact parts need lubrication too.

thanks for your help!

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u/Acceptable_Grape_437 — 21 hours ago
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donner dark mouse is the best cheapest rat

this is a rat post.

this is a cheap rat clone post.

i have a joyo splinter, a donner dark mouse, a dolamo vintage distortion, and i've had a friend's proco rat 2 for a while. i think it's safe to say i know my rats.

HECK, dark mouse almost never left my board for any of the others. is it the middier eq profile? is it that it's crunchier, grainier overall? idrk, but it SMASHES the other two cheapos. its eq profile is SPOT ON the proco's, while the others' is flatter. that seems to be the case for TC magus pro too.

i'm not going to say it's "better than the original". but, boy, given its size, i do prefer it. it's *better* the the original at what it does... proco rat 2 just sounds good in every spot and setting, extremely adaptable. but i kind of prefer the dark mouse's slightly specific sound.

just don't get a splinter or a magus, when you can have the donner (same as mooer black secret as of what i know), unless you're averse to mini pedals, or want a fat rat (in that case: splinter). the donner sounds WAY better, AND way rattier.

and i'm not even considering the turbo rat mode here, which i'm in 90% of the time anyway.

end of communication

u/Acceptable_Grape_437 — 1 day ago
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EDIT2: case closed - same old didn't check for the input jack inserted disconnecting ground all over :P will delete in a while EDIT3: turns out i won't be deleting post, it *could* turn out to be useful, i guess?

EDIT: ok, i've connected everything raw and everything works... the question remains: why can't i read any ground? what am i missing?

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i've been modding my joyo splinter and the mod works as intended.

except the pedal stopped working. i've noticed physical damage on the cheap cables' connections from motherboard to footswitch breakboard (due to too much moving it around) so i've disconnected it, and figured I'd just rewire a new 3pdt.

i've retraced everything, but, lo and behold, I can't find any ground (was looking for it to connect the on/off led, as it was).

TL;DR as of now i could only find continuity between battery clip's ground and PSU input ground and output jack.

input jack and wherever on the board, even where the (original) led's ground was connected, no dice. i'm baffled

what might have happened? am i missing something? something very obvious? :P

thanks for reading

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u/Acceptable_Grape_437 — 8 days ago
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/uj i feel they have gotten to the point of jerking us *this* bad even for ads

/rj which one of you did this? only a true jerker 'd know its fellow jerkers this well.

it wants me. will i be able to say no? what about consent? idc

u/Acceptable_Grape_437 — 11 days ago