My youngest son has a couple of cheap Korean made F style Magnum guitars that possibly date back to late 80's for the P Bass and mid 90's for the Strat.
Stock hardware on the Bass is OK whilst rubbish on the Strat where I have replaced and/or modified many things over the past 10 - 15 years or so.
Not much work done on the Bass other than new strings, intonation, and the pearloid pick guard several years ago. Recently discovered tone pot was frozen and also no signal so time to check things out.
With upgrading many parts on current PBG builds I have ended up with a few spare parts and decided to use Junior's axes to try some of them out.
For this Bass I had a choice of 2 x A500k pots and 3 x B500k pots and was surprised at the variance in resistance. Both A's read around 470k to 480k whilst the B's ranged from 508k up to 520k so I picked an A & B with the closest readings for the refurb. Also had a fresh jack hanging around which was stereo and a spare 0.047 Orange Drop Cap. Here are some shots before changes were made>
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