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CLEANING UP A MIDLAND INTERNATIONAL MODEL 10-558, 8 BAND RECIEVER

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nightfly61

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I just picked up this portable reciever at an auction. The slide pots for volume & tone both "pop" when I slide 'em. I figured blasting them out with some contact cleaner may help...anyone have any tricks to bring this thing semi-back to life? the pots seem tight so may just be really dirty.
This has SW1, SW2, Military, AM, Police Band Low, Police Band High, FM, & Air.
The dial pots, squelch & the tuning pot(which has a fine tuning dial on it) are also noisy but tight.
I figured I'd use the spray on the punch selector band buttons too. Just wondered if there were any tricks of the trade out there. Thanks!!!
 
Sounds like you are on the right track. Be careful! Some contact cleaners on the market will destroy plastic. I learned this the hard way.
 
My second choice would be Cramolin Deoxit Red D-5.

You can really use any contact cleaner with lubricant. Don't use the non lubricated stuff or those pots will get really bad.

My first choice would be Quietrole, a red liquid in a bottle that contained carbon tetrachloride so they took it off the market. But man was that ever good stuff.
 
I agree with Greg. I just couldn't remember its name. Cramolin Deoxit D5 is some good stuff and I have done wonders with Quietrole. Thank you EPA for takeing another product off the market that worked. I hope you need your controls cleaned some day.
 
Thanks All...I checked on it & I think the radio must've came as an extra with a mobile home by the same name (Midland) because when I searched it all I could find were C.B radios & Midland campers. I think the SW antenna is loose because someone had a penny inside stuck at the base & neither SW1 or SW2 work too well...lots of static & it seems to work better if I squeeze it so I think it needs a better ground. Used to have another similar that did the same thing.
 
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