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Post subject: Vol pot of Mexican Strat
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:20 am
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I hav a Mexican Strat, a 2001 0r 2002 model not really sure. Its with me 4 last 4 yrs. Currently am facing a problem with the Vol pot as it has jammed in high end i.e full vol position & am not able to reduce the vol level. Had removed the knob ( white top with 1 - 10 ) but still the vol does not rotate at all ( I hav not opened the white scrath plate & not seen from inside ). How to fix this problem ? Could it be because of the moisture got into the inner control knob as I stay in Mumbai, India a very humid coastal climate, where things catch rust quickly. Would appreciate some help in this direction & thanks in advance.

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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 10:17 am
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Hi Mohit: you are talking to a major lover of India here, including Mumbai (it was still called Bombay, last time I was there, though).

You could try rescuing your jammed pot with something like this:

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics ... eaner.html

But if it is jammed solid then I don't think you will have much luck. Probably better to just replace the potentiometer with a new one. Do it yourself if you know how, or take it to a good tech wallah. You will likely need a 250k potentiometer (pot) for a Strat, and you need to be sure to get the right sized shaft, with that split in the end, to fit your knob. You could order one cheaply from that website, above, but I bet you'd have no trouble finding one in an electronics shop at home in Mumbai.

Good luck, and my greetings to India. Has the monsoon come yet?

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Post subject: Re: Vol pot of Mexican Strat
Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:30 am
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Thanks Ceri,
This years monsoon was good all over esp. Bombay (Mumbai). I will try to fix up my mexican strat vol pot on my own or a friend Aashish ( nick name Monu ) would help me out. My email id mohitgreenwold@gmail.com
For some queries in the future I may trouble U also. Ceri can U give your short intro as I need to know the helpful person in U a little more.
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 10:39 am
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Careful now Ceri :!: :)


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bump for Ceri :!:


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Ah, why not?

My "short intro", regarding your part of the world, is that I've been travelling to India since the early 80s, and have spent a goodly part of my time there. I've been all over, from Madras to Simla. I've been a lot in Jodhpur, where I have good friends. I once rode a camel across the Thar Desert from Jaisalmer to Jodhpur: it took 11 days (but I suspect that was because I was paying for the camels by the day, rather than a fixed rate for the journey). Also, I once spent the whole summer in Udaipur, including the monsoon - never seen anything like that in my life!

Far as the rest is concerned - I'm just some English guy who spends too much time talking about guitars when he should be playing them.

How's that for a resume/CV? (Possibly not what you had in mind... :wink: )

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In the laie 60s I had a shirt made in Madras and some nice sandels made in a town that started with an H ( haratchie) spelling wrong. Loved them both 8)


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fhopkins wrote:
In the laie 60s I had a shirt made in Madras and some nice sandels made in a town that started with an H ( haratchie) spelling wrong. Loved them both 8)


In the late 60's I had more brain cells then I do now. Did someone say cookies?

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cryingstrat wrote:
fhopkins wrote:
In the laie 60s I had a shirt made in Madras and some nice sandels made in a town that started with an H ( haratchie) spelling wrong. Loved them both 8)


In the late 60's I had more brain cells then I do now. Did someone say cookies?

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You might want to replace that pot sounds like the shaft inside the pot jammed. But in any case if you want to know, Stratocasters use CTS pots. CTS is the brand name (manufactuer) of the pot.

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Thanks Ceri 4 your intro. When I get time maybe next week wud try to fix vol pot i.e shaft problem. Good to know that U like to travel. I actually belong to Nainital near the Himalayas where it snows during winter. Thats where I developed a taste for western music esp rock of 70's when Strat & les paul were mainly used. Had dreamt of owning such a guitar then. Formed a band in 1981 & started playing moderately but after picking up a job had to give up my passion & playing as a hobby now once in a while. Irony is when we needed good guitars thoses days cud'nt afford it. Thanks to globalisation now that people all over can afford good guitars at reasonable price now.

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Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:10 am
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And for that matter thanks to globalisation Strats (well, Squiers at any rate) are now made in India!

When I was first travelling to India western goodies were in short supply and people would offer to buy anything you could carry into the country, like cameras and stuff. It is all different now: I bet you can get anything you want in Mumbai (most expensive real-estate on the planet by the way, ladies and gentlemen. Far ahead of NY or London or Tokyo...).

You were wondering whether your hot wet climate might have caused your tone pot problem. Maybe, though they have a similar climate in the southern US, places like Louisiana, and I don't remember hearing about people getting a lot of problems like yours there. Though they'll soon let you know if I'm wrong.

Unfortunately, I know about products for keeping the insides of musical instruments from getting too dry. But I don't know of anything for fighting damp inside guitars. My father has a very good violin and sometimes shakes dry rice around the inside of it to clean it - perhaps you could fill your Strat's control cavity with rice...?! Better would be those little sachets they put in with electrical goods to keep them dry in storage.

Or maybe you just have to keep the guitar in a good case when not using it, to help combat the climate. I bet you miss those Himalayas sometimes! I've only been as high up as Simla - but that was still pretty special!

Good luck - and stick around the Forum here, why don't you?

Cheers - C


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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:47 am
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Hi Ceri,
You know I am in Sales & marketing in Everest Industries Ltd dealing in roofing & interior products. Thus I have to travel in Maharastra state & cannot view fender forums regularly.
So finally I fixed this problem by opening the pick guard & saw the entire thing. The nut holding the vol shaft had rusted & the pot was fine except that it was not moving. I had some switch oil meant for pots & electronics parts which thru a nozzle injected below the gap of 3 soldering points of the pot & lubricated the tone shafts also. It took about an hour for the oil to set in & finally the vol pot started moving freely. In the process cleaned the fretboard bridge etc. Now it is working fine.
In the early 80s when I was in Nainital, this hippie culture was prominent where these foreigners used to come to India & stay in some hill station & when they were broke or leaving back for their country they would sell their things. One of my friend got a German Hofner 12 string guitar so cheap & we used to cherish the lovely sound of this 12 string those days. We had a Hondo II a Japanese Les Paul copy but the pick ups produced thick sound & lacked treble. But for us it was the best thing around with boss distortion & echo pedals we enjoyed playing Deep Purple, Led Zepp, Pink Floyd & Eagles. Eric Clapton's Cocaine live was our favorite & with local wah wah pedal we had lots of fun.
Even today when once in two years I go to Nainital we make it a point to hav some jam sessions at our friends place where we play & enjoy with better guitars like Ibanez & Washburn. I don't carry my Strat as Mumbai & Nainital distance is almost 2000 kms. Except three, the other 2 band members hav left Nainital including me on lead guitar & the drummer who stays in Delhi.
I think you now got to know about my side of this passion which I cherish & try to be in touch with my friends once in a while back home.

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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:22 pm
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Excellent! Sounds like you were up to fixing that problem without help from anyone here.

I have my own memories of rock in the Indian hill stations in the early 80s. As I said, I was in Simla: some guys asked where I was from and when I replied "London, England" something in my tone reminded them of the way Pete Townshend says that line on the Smothers Brothers show at the beginning of The Who's Kids Are Alright film. I was surprised they knew it - next thing I knew we were back at someone's house watching The Who on video with Kingfisher beers in our hands and sunset over the Himalayas outside. Seemed quite sureal to me: utterly normal to them, obviously.

Just one question, to satisfy my extreme nosey curiosity: where does the name Greenwold come from? Doesn't sound very Indian - sounds more like the east of England, or even Denmark...? No need to answer that if you don't want to: none of my business after all...

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Hi Ceri,
Sorry 4 coming back to the forum after almost 2 weeks. You know I generally am free on weekends & cannot post a reply as the forum is open on weekdays. Three generations back a German missionary known as Greenwald came to India & that is how we got the name which later got changed to Greenwold. My mother is from a Brahmin background but her forefathers accepted Christ & thus became christians & the sirname carried on with males down the line. Anyway I am not a good christian, though would like to be one.
I wud be going to Nainital this Diwali that is in Oct & again wud hav some jam sessions. My 12 yr old son Joel who is in 8th std has picked up the keyboards & has a Yamaha E403, a decent one & we jam up together with he backing me up on songs like Theme from love story, House of the rising sun ( he leads on the keyboards ), Time ( Pink Floyd ), Sultans of swing, Hotel California, Stairway to heaven, mainly the lead solo part in all the songs as the mexican Strat with a Roland cube 30 sounds quite close to the original sounds. These sessions also happen once in a month or two or sometimes when Joel has holidays & if I am also free, then only. I actually tried Joe Satriani, Steve Vai & Eric Johnson but for these guitar greats U need to practice regularly & need to be sober ( without alcohol ) at the time of playing which does not happen as we play in the evenings after 9 - 9.30pm on some remote week end.
Well buy 4 now & wish U well in everything, wud be in touch ofcourse.

Rgds

Mohit Greenwold


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