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Originally Posted by Olorin67
Slide controls were a huge 70's fad, until people found out how hard they are to keep clean. Ive seen a lot of 70s audio gear with slide controls, I usually avoid them like the plague. look cool, function- not so much.
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I have a Zenith AM-FM-stereo FM clock radio, model H480W (1980), with slide pots for volume, balance and tone. The radio worked quite well for many years, then I tried to clean one of the sliders with tuner cleaner. I don't know what I did to cause it, but the FM reception became very weak and noisy after that and hasn't been the same since. AM reception is excellent. I guess I must have either knocked a connection loose (from the force of the spray) or else the tuner spray itself shorted something out. Everything else, except the power reserve backup battery, still works as well as when the radio was new. When I plug the radio in, the clock starts at 11:00 or some other odd hour.