Lumberjack88
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I bought a secondhand Luke III guitar with the two DiMarzio Transition Humbuckers and the preamp boost on the volume pot and, after playing around for just a week, the volume push-push pot seems to be broken. It worked flawlessly before, and now some mechanism seems to be broken so that it can't stay down in the off position. It's always in the on position now. I unscrewed this pot just to see if maybe there wasn't enough room on the down movement, but, even without the pot screwed onto the guitar, the push-push part just won't stay in the down position.
Is the only way to fix this situation to buy a new volume pot? Since this guitar features active circuitry, how difficult would it be to just change that single volume pot? Do I have to simultaneously change other parts in the guitar along with that volume pot? As far as soldering is concerned, I have a 450° Celsius soldering iron and I'm not sure if I'll damage the pot and the active preamp circuitry at that temperature.
BTW: I'm from Switzerland and I can't order one of these pots from the Music Man online store. Hope some EBMM representative can chime in to let me know how I should proceed. I already filled out a customer service contact formular 3 days ago or so but haven't received a response yet.
Is the only way to fix this situation to buy a new volume pot? Since this guitar features active circuitry, how difficult would it be to just change that single volume pot? Do I have to simultaneously change other parts in the guitar along with that volume pot? As far as soldering is concerned, I have a 450° Celsius soldering iron and I'm not sure if I'll damage the pot and the active preamp circuitry at that temperature.
BTW: I'm from Switzerland and I can't order one of these pots from the Music Man online store. Hope some EBMM representative can chime in to let me know how I should proceed. I already filled out a customer service contact formular 3 days ago or so but haven't received a response yet.