Frozen Pot

[Hajrb]

Hello;

I'm looking at a Fender Stratocaster Deluxe Series for a friend of mine. It has Tom Delong on the back plate. It has a single, what looks like a
Seymour Duncan Invader pickup on the bridge. The single control, volume, is frozen and I want to change the pot. I can't tell; does it use a
standard 500k pot or is it some pot specific to that guitar? There's a resistor and capacitor soldered between the poles.

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[Artie]

Welcome to the forum. With an Invader, it's probably 500k. Does the pot have numbers on it? A number like 254 would be 250k, and 504 would be 500k. Two significant digits, then the 3rd number indicates the number of zero's.

 

[Mincer]

What does the resistor and the cap do in this case?

 

[Chistopher]

treble bleed I think. I was looking at one the other day and it had a treble bleed advertised

 

[ehdwuld]

I would guess treble bleed as well

An image would go a long ways

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Most likely a 500K pot I think.
With no tone control some might choose a 250K instead, to warm the highs a bit.
But with an Invader that shouldn't really be necessary. :smokin:

 

[Hajrb]

Yes. Photos. I thought I uploaded these yesterday

 

[Artie]

Don't forget to remove that spring, when you put it back together. :9:

 

[jeremy]

you mean put the spring back on the pup height adjustment screw where itll do some good?

 

[Hajrb]

Yea. both springs were stuck to the PU and one screw was hanging when I got it. I had to use Soft Scrub to get the mung off the pickguard. It looks nice now, it's just unplayable

 

[Artie]

If you have a meter, you can still measure it, even if it's frozen. Just measure across the outside terminals, after its removed from the circuit.