Problems with buzzing and more

[dasfonzie]

Alright I've got two guitars I need to do some work to.

First my #1 Strat, it crackles and buzzes randomly. I can get it to stop if I jiggle the switch, it's gotten to the point where on top of the crackling it just fades out now. It's been doing this for awhile. I resoldered all the wires going to the switch when I put my latest pickup combo in it, and it hasn't changed. Could this be a bad switch? Or another notion came to me, could it be that I'm using to hot of a soldering iron? I've always used my grandpas soldering gun. It says 140/100 watts on it. I've never had any problems before but now I'm starting to question it.

Second, is my friends Lyon by Washburn Super Strat.

It seems to be an input problem, it does the same things as my Strat, but especially when touching the volume and tone controls. Also sometimes it jsut produces no sound and you have to jiggle the input about some.

Thanks in advance guys

 

[Fritz6]

Re: Problems with buzzing and more

Don't use a soldering gun. Could demagnetize the pups if I remember correctly. 140/100 is too high anyway. Grab a 40 watt soldering iron.

Your strat sounds like a bad switch or bad connection at the switch. Get a multimeter and check every connection in the guitar. Could have damaged the switch with that much wattage also.

If all connections are sound a component is prob the cause. Connect everything one at a time to the jack to isolate the broken part.

Good habit to get into is to tin everything being soldered and checking every connection after you do it with a multimeter before moving on.

Friends guitar sounds like bad connections at the vol pot and jack.

 

[noth]

Re: Problems with buzzing and more

You said you resoldered all the wires, but there could be breaks in (inside) the wires themselves. This can be be tedious, but try checking each one end to end with an ohmeter. Move the wire around as you do it to expose any bad wire you may have. You'll need a third hand here.

Noth