Channel imbalance after padding pot

[Jamus]

Pot is cooked, huh? Sorry, couldn't resist. 

Would this be a worthwhile place to upgrade to something other than the stock part from BH?

[Lee Hankins]

Absolutely!!!!!!!!

[Jamus]

What would you recommend Lee?

[Paul Birkeland]

No, if you've cooked the stock volume pot, most of the more expensive potentiometers are considerably more fragile.

[Jamus]

The issue with this particular mod for me was that the bottom ground tab was difficult to reach for solder removal and without complete solder removal the terminal hole was a tight squeeze for the resistor.

I like to think I'd have more luck starting with a clean slate even if the pot is more delicate (says the guy who's already melted power switches on 2 builds) 

[Jamus]

Just wanted to close the book on this in case anyone is interested. I swapped the pot with a Pec 100K ohm. This did require very minor drilling in the chassis plate to widen both the hole for the pot and the orientation tab. There is a lot of room around the terminals of this pot which made the job very smooth. I re-completed the original planned mod with the resistors to pad the pot. Everything works and sounds great. Thanks for everyone's help with this.