[Doug Gifford]

My New Yorker is getting pretty close to just the way I want it. Two small issues remain:
the tone pot's scratchy at one end and one tuner seems to have dried out or something and feels underlubed.

1) how do I approach cleaning and lubing the tone pot?
2) how to I approach re-lubing the tuner?

 

[desolation_angel]

I use Deoxit D5 for potentiometers

 

[player99]

 

[Rollin Hand]

NuTrol from Next Gen is excellent for rescuing pots.

What kind of tuners are we talking about? Open or closed?

 

[Doug Gifford]

NuTrol from Next Gen is excellent for rescuing pots.

What kind of tuners are we talking about? Open or closed?

It's the top one. There's a [nylon?] washer visibly missing -- it was broken and fell off very soon after I got the guitar.

 

[THRobinson]

I tried to get info about these tuners before, as in how to open them, and got basically nowhere. I think you need a special tool or something to get them back on as well. I have a set I wanted to open, stick in the sonic cleaner, re-grease and seal up again. Didn't get far.

Most I can think of is take the screw off for the button (part you tune with) slide it and the washer/ring off, and maybe warm up some vaseline or superlube in a blunt end syringe and shoot some inside? Saw StewMac vid once where they used heated up vaseline to make it squirt out more easily and used a syringe on the vintage Kluson styles.

 

[player99]

Can get the key off and access the shaft? I used some plastic tubing before. I got lucky and found a piece of hard-ish pvc tubing that was exactly the right size. I sliced off a piece and it worked perfectly.

 

[Doug Gifford]

Can get the key off and access the shaft? I used some plastic tubing before. I got lucky and found a piece of hard-ish pvc tubing that was exactly the right size. I sliced off a piece and it worked perfectly.

aquarium tubing, like
can you buy it by the mm?

 

[greco]

There's a [nylon?] washer visibly missing

Tuner Washers (pkg 10)

 

[player99]

aquarium tubing, like
can you buy it by the mm?

I would use the hard pvc water tubing used with fridges or smaller water purifiers. I'm not sure what the tubing I got was but it was exactly the right diameter inside and out.

 

[player99]

You could also buy a piece of delrin solid rod the right outside diameter and cut a slice then drill it if the Next Jen washers are not the correct size.

 

[zztomato]

Grover tuners suck. Lol

Buy some Gotoh 510 tuners and never worry about tuners again.