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Originally Posted by old_coot88
Disconnect only what's going to the negative (low end) lug. Measure from that lug to the wiper lug, and rotate the control stop-to-stop. The meter should show a smoothly-changing ohms value, from very low to very high. (The wiper is the middle lug between the bottom and top-end lugs.)
Or does the meter show open circuit (infinite resistance) thru the full range of rotation?
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Well I figured out what it was, a piece of capacitor lead wire got down into the volume control pot and was shorting it out, so I flushed it out with some contact cleaner and now the volume control pot seems to be working fine now.
The biggest give away was that the volume control pot wasn't measuring open but it was being rather difficult to turn so I took some contact cleaner and sprayed it into the volume control pot and sure enough that piece of capacitor lead wire flew right out of the pot and it now rotates perfectly.