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Mid 70's Cry Baby Wah Pot

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mph

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I have an original 70's Cry Baby wah pedal whose pot has gone scritchy. I've tried disassembling the pot, cleaning/lubing it w/ the red-can Caig product, but it still goes scritch-scritch when I move the pedal (when the pedal is stationary, it's quiet and seems to function OK). (Hmmm, did I just answer my own question: scritch-scritch when moving the pot + quiet when it's still = DC on the pot?).

Is a replacement pot available? I like the pedal, it does the Zappa lead tone real nicely, I'd like to keep it that way, but would like to rid it of the dreaded scritch-scritch.

NE ideas?

TIA, Mark
 
TedB

TedB

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The Fulltone pot is better than the original. I replace my old Vox wah's pot and inductor with the Fulltone parts, and it made an audible improvement.
 
rays44

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I bought the same pedal in the 70's and noticed right away that it degraded my signal. Switched to a DPDT switch and problem solved. It makes a HUGE difference.
 
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