[sdiy] Questions about Pots

[harry]

Shafts ???   (cue guitar through waa waa ... chickchickchickChikaChikaChick...)

I cut them (carefully) by holding the unwanted shaft firmly in a vice, and cut with
a very fine hacksaw blade...

Best way at home. I think. Some like a cutoff wheel in a Dremel Mototool...

H^) harry

"Grant L. Muller" wrote:

>         So, I went to Radio Shack this week because I'm circuit bending an old
> Casio Rapmaster (This is my first time!). In any case, I found everything I
> was looking for except the right pots.
>         The pots I found up there all had these huge poles sticking out of them,
> the were like 2 inches long! I want to attach knobs to these poles, but i
> surely don't want them to stick out this far. Am I looking for the wrong
> thing? Am I supposed to cut these poles down? Is there a better place to buy
> pots, preferably shorter ones that I don't have to cut? I'm sorta new, and I
> couldn't find anything in the archives conserning this, any ideas? Let me
> know, and thanks for the bandwidth.
>
>         Also, I'm almost certain my terminology is incorrect, I doubt these things
> that stick out of the pot that you attach knobs to are called "poles". Let
> me know on that too.
>
> Grant
>
> np: Coil - Love's Secret Domain