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Anyone ever vacuum their knobs and faders?
I remember reading somewhere that crackly knobs and faders or your mixer can be revived with a small portable vacuum cleaner... I have an ancient jcb spx035 mixer, faders were crackly and dropping out, knobs too... I was gonna sell it or give it away, but after getting the handheld vacuum cleaner to do it’s job , I gave it another chance... works a treat!
Gonna mix some vinyl for a change!
I also have an amplifier that got drenched in beer...at a house party in ‘96
Kindly it got a good clean by the guilty culprit
And it’s still going strong !!!
Anyone else had any success resurrecting any kit by cleaning?
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You need a can of DeoxIT. A vacuum won’t fix crackly faders and knobs.
Edit: well, I guess you said it worked on your mixer…but for how long? 😁
+1
@JohnnyGoodyear @michael_m
Lol. Suits you Sir!
Knew it’d tickle a few
@mtenk
You’re probably right…
But for now we are good(ish)!
I use a camera lens blower brush to keep dust out of knobs and sliders. But for crackles I think you need to actually get inside and spray the contacts with something like DeoxIT as @mtenk mentioned.
Vacuum cleaner sounds like a non brainer to me. I do it every time I hoover around my gear. Faders are super exposed to dust. Servisol goes in when they start playing up. I guess to vacuum will work it dust is stuck to the insides of a fader with a lubricant.
Me! I vacuum everything once I get going. I also keep a paintbrush (that I’ve never used for paint) in a desk drawer for dusting off grooveboxes etc.
I also cover stuff when not in use. Decksavers or old white pillow cases do the trick.
I like to vacuum my headphone sockets. Get a pen - take out the ink/ballpoint thing and take off the top. Now you have the shell. Hold it between your fingers and cup your hand over the hose - instant tiny headphone socket hoover - powerful too.
I keep all my knobs and faders safely tucked behind my iPad screen. Never had a noisy fader yet.
All my gear is out on my desk without cover. 1 time each week I use this: https://amzn.to/3IUiigf
At first, I was buying bottle of air but at 5$ the unit, it become expensive very quickly.
Lol @wim
Top tips folks!
Reminded me of this classic label from back in the day
Faders seem to get affected more than knobs, but I would blow compressed air rather than vacuum as I think it is more effective.
Just saw this on Elektronauts!
https://www.elektronauts.com/t/befaco-synth-duster/160584
You can Always lay a dust proof covering overtop when not in use. They sell them on Amazon.
There are a few other forums that that have a thread dedicated to posting taken out of context comments that have double meanings. I so often see threads here about knobs, fingerings, inserts, etc., and think that we should have one too…
Wait..... there are people who do NOT?!?!?!?!
Figured I should start one…
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/49402/the-taken-out-of-context-thread/
This is what you want, I use it professionally since one year and it works perfectly. Air has to be pushed for proper cleaning:
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For a second I thought that was a blowtorch. Which probably wouldn’t have had quite the desired effect.
Vacuuming your iMac keyboard is a bad move... I lost half the number pad and a couple of directional keys once upon a time...I spent half an hour picking through a bag packed full of dust mites and their associated detritus .... found all of them eventually...
🙄
The keys, not the mites... they weren’t lost!
A good clean will definitely work wonders. I’ll dip boards in iso sometimes if it’s really bad lol
Blowing the faders with compressed air as general cleaning is bad news, because dust bunnies can get forced between the moving contacts of the fader (little metal fingers) and the resistive strip, and make a bad contact where the fader won’t work reliably, or at all. When that happens the fader has to get taken apart or replaced to fix it.
Though, if the fader already doesn’t work right, what could it hurt to shine some compressed air in there? Maybe could dislodge the gunk.
True!! And when possible it’s always better to open controller chassis for proper dust cleaning inside it.
There is also that kind of spray which can help a lot destructing dirt on electric contact:
https://www.wd40.com/products/contact-cleaner/