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hpr2759 :: Cleaning the Potentiometers on a Peavey Bandit 65

I disassemble and clean the pots on my Peavey Bandit 65 to fix static in the knobs.

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Hosted by Jon Kulp on Thursday 2019-02-28 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tags: Guitars, electronics, amplifiers, maintenance, repair.

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Since my daughter has been learning a bit of guitar in the last several months, I've actually gotten my old electric guitar and amplifier back out again after many years in the closet. The amp is a Peavey Bandit 65, which was a an affordable solid-state workhorse kind of amp back in the mid-80s and I've had it since it was new. In this episode I talk through the process of removing the brains of the amp and cleaning the potentiometers to try to get rid of some of the static that's happening when I turn the knobs. I also discover belatedly that the reason I was not getting any distortion when I turned the saturation up was that the amp was stuck on the clean channel — shows how long it's been since I used the amp, I kind of forgot how the thing works!

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Comment #1 posted on 2019-02-28T21:21:52Z by NYbill

Stepping on toes!

Stealing a show I had planned, Jon!

https://media.gunmonkeynet.net/u/nybill/m/winter-to-do-list-fix-this/

All right, all right. You beat me to it fair and square.

BTW, there is contact cleaner that is specifically made for music gear and it does contain a lubricant. Its made by DeoxIT and the line of products is called Fader (Their font choice on 'Fader" looks awful familiar!

Also, I would say your saturation is not working properly, if at all. That thing should give you all the Hair Metal distortion you could ask for. :P

You might have a problem with the foot pedal. I had this same issue in the past. You might be stuck in NORM GAIN. And the pedal is not switching into LEAD GAIN (where the Saturation is).
The problem I used to have is, the 90 degree jack for the foot pedal does not retain/grip the cable in any way. Any tug on the cable can break a solder joint inside. Its something to check out. Its only a couple screws.

Good luck! And get some hair spray!

Comment #2 posted on 2019-03-02T15:14:57Z by Jon Kulp

Never too much about 80s gear

Haha Sorry, Bill! Please do the show anyway. I think the foot pedal is actually working fine, it's just that I didn't realize it was switched over to the other channel while I was working on the amp and the foot pedal wasn't actually plugged in at the moment. I realized my mistake when I plugged the foot pedal in and stepped on it and suddenly saturation was working because it was on the right channel.

Thanks for the tip on the cleaner / lubricant. I think I will check with my audio engineering faculty guy and see if he's got a can sitting around that I can blast some into the pots without having to pay twenty bucks for a can myself. :)

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