Crackle coming from input jack

[HANGAR18]

then sprayed some CRC contact cleaner into the jack hole. Presto! No more jack noise.

 

Where do I buy some of that stuff? I've got one pot on this Strat I'm assembling that makes noise when I move the dial.

[High Flying Bird]

Radio Shack if you have one close by. Lowe's or Home Despot might have them.

[SouthpawGuy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6FfjlxZLTk

All I got

[yoslate]

Umm, clean it how? Spraying contact cleaner in the hole?

 

Regarding just cleaning, Will, wrap some fine grit sandpaper (600 +/-) around something cylindrical, slightly smaller than a regular wooden pencil or the jack itself (1/4 inch). Insert that into the input, an inch or more, and move it in and out a few times, gently. Then hit it with electrical contact cleaner. Sounds as though you may have a sketchy solder, though.

[yoslate]

Oooops! Sorry...just noticed Brent's post. Uh...what Brent said....

[Guest HRB853370]

Where do I buy some of that stuff? I've got one pot on this Strat I'm assembling that makes noise when I move the dial.

 

Walmart carries CRC cleaner. Screw Radio Shack or Home Depot, they charge too much for everything.

 

Regarding just cleaning, Will, wrap some fine grit sandpaper (600 +/-) around something cylindrical, slightly smaller than a regular wooden pencil or the jack itself (1/4 inch). Insert that into the input, an inch or more, and move it in and out a few times, gently. Then hit it with electrical contact cleaner. Sounds as though you may have a sketchy solder, though.

 

I followed that procedure exactly and guess what? Jack is fixed!

[yoslate]

...and I've been told, on numerous occasions, that I didn't know jack shit....