If you think it is really the pots, you can debug by tacking a resistor to emulate the wiper setting in parallel with it and if the cutting out goes away, you know where to start looking.
We ate late lunch/early dinner on Friday at the Pink Door, a classic and famous Pikes Marketplace eatery. It was like a freak show looking at all of the wait staff and about 50% of the customers
I am just back from a week of vacation and have deleted the latest round of Russian BOT attacks that created many spam threads. Previous poster names have been deleted but no real telling what wave will come next.