[sdiy] Small Resistors and slider pots

[Jim Patchell]

    This is most easily done with a drill press and an x-y table.  Mark off the
lenth you want to cut, get a drill of the appropriate width, drill a series of
holes, use a file to clean it up.  I have also done this by center punching the
places to drill and using a hand electric drill.  I would then use a fine tooth
coping saw to make the slot, and the file to finish it up.  A lot of work, no
matter which way you cut it.

    -Jim

Glen wrote:

> At 05:56 AM 4/2/01 , harry wrote:
> >OK EVERYBODY LETS VOTE !!!
> >
> >ROTARY... because no dirt can enter the fader through the hole
> >so they last about 1000 times longer than a linear pot !!!
> >
> >H^)
>
> Then again, I've had to clean or replace a great many "hermetically sealed"
> rotary pots in the past...
>
> I wouldn't hesitate to use a linear pot on a personal piece of gear - if I
> could easily cut the narrow slots required in the front panel. Does anyone
> have a favorite trick to do this neatly and easily with inexpensive tools?
>
> For something that stays here at home, and never sees a hostile
> environment, a linear pot should last long enough for me. I'll probably get
> tired of my circuit design, by the time the linear pot actually wears out.
>
> Later,
> Glen