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Products: Potentiometers

Dunlop "Type J" Potentiometer
Price: $25.00 including shipping.

Basic Truths: The quality of the popular brands of Allen Bradley and Clerostat deteriorated in recent years. That forced me to find another potentiometer that measured up to the quality demanded by our military when the "Type J" pots were originally manufactured. In my estimation, the Dunlop pot exceeds the quality of the older Type J pots. It provides a million revolutions of trouble-free performance. The only way to test my claim, short of asking the hundreds of purchasers who have bought them from me, is to do the following. Install a new Dunlop pot in your pedal and set your amp volume to a reasonable level with your volume pedal at full volume. Play your guitar some, then promptly plug your guitar directly into your amp and play some more. There should be virtually no difference in volume and tone between the two tests! If you do this and don't like the sound from your pedal, return the pot and I'll reimburse you for all your costs. As yet, no one has done this. Shaft length of the Dunlop pot: One inch, but can be cut to desired length if necessary.

Good Advice: You should always have an extra pot on hand in case of a breakdown of the pot currently in your foot volume pedal. When you do get around to replacing the old pot, you will likely discover that with a Dunlop pot, your sound will be truer and any "hiss" or "scratchiness" will be a thing of the past. And about that "scratch-noise" in a pot: you can spray a commercial cleaner into the pot (if you don?t have to open it up). That effort lasts for about a set and the "scratch-noise" returns.

My pots come with complete installation instructions. Tom

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