Hi All,
I have had a beat up 1960s Harmony Rocket III for a while that I finally decided to fix up. Two pots were dead, and the rest were scratchy even after tuner cleaner, so I replaced the entire wiring harness with new pots and caps (along with locking tuners, a compensated ebony bridge, graphite nut, strap locks, and a new output jack).
The guitar now sounds and feels great. However, I'm having trouble getting the wiring harness back into place.
When I took everything apart, I tied fishing line to the old pots thinking that I would just pull them back out through their holes. Now, however, when I try to pull everything back into place the 6 pots keep catching and tangling on the strands of line making it impossible to get them to the holes in the top.
I don't have a picture of it, but I re-used the coiled shield / wire guide from the old harness in order to make sure things lined up right.
Any advice you guys could give on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated. I tried searching the archives and didn't find any help.
Here she is before I got started.
Here's a shot of the pot holes.
-Vadim