Attention Weirdy and other electronic gurus!!

[WeirdBits]

This type of switch doesn't have specific ground lugs like your pancaked 'import' style PBG switch. Typically, the metal switch frame will be grounded by the cavity shielding.

As such, you will need to connect the bridge and neck pup grounds to either the back of a pot or just run a short wire from a pot ground point and link it to the pup grounds at the switch (then insulate the join so it can't short) etc. The latter means that you don't have to strip the pup wires back a ton so the grounds will reach, if you get what I mean.

[Zandit75]

Yep, understood. The latter option sounds good.
Thanks for all this bud.

[Zandit75]

DONE!! And I actually have sound on all switch positions!
My only issue at the moment is static/scratchyness when I rotate either the volume or tone knobs.
Is this an earthing issue?

[wazkelly]

No, the scratchiness is mostly down to the pots themselves.

Did you use the old ones or the newer Chinese generics that I sent with all the other stuff as from memory they had never been used and should have been OK?

[Zandit75]

They were the 500k's you sent me, and I thought they would be fine. The originals were also 500k's, but from memory they were corroded.

[wazkelly]

Hmmm, best to wait for an expert to drop by and offer some comments. Myself, I would probably use some Freon spray as that used to work for me in the past (but that was last century???).

[WeirdBits]

Did you leave them out in the rain or give them to the dog to play with? I mean, after the driveway incident we need to check these things...

Do you only get the static burst when turning them or does it continue once it's in a static making position? Both tone and volume or just one of the pots?

[Simon Barden]

Could be heat damage from soldering. They may just need cleaning. A contact cleaner/lubricator something like this https://www.jaycar.com.au/contact-cl...y-can/p/NA1012. I use Servisol a lot (though it comes in different packaging in the UK).

Don't ever use WD40 for pots or contacts! It is designed as a water dispersant, not a cleaner, and leaves an oily residue which whilst initially making things better, attracts dust and quite quickly makes things a lot worse.

[wazkelly]

Good advice Simon.

[Zandit75]

Thanks for the quick ideas guys.
I deserve that weirdy!
The static/scratchyness is only present when I rotate either of the knobs. It stops as soon as I stop moving the knob.