[sdiy] Dual pot search....

[john mahoney]

Michael,
I jumped to the StewMac catalog, too! But their pots have the wrong values,
the wrong taper, and they are not cheap (as you said). Fun stuff to look at,
though. It's an interesting catalog because their are so many special tools
made just for luthiery. (Where else you gonna find Nut Files? But I
digress...)

On the subject of weird pots, Fender has a new one where the face of the
knob is a pushbutton. An alternative to the push-pull pot, I believe that
it's used on a certain new Strat. Alas, you have to use the Fender knob, and
it's even less cheap ;-) than the StewMac parts.

I'm surprised that I've never seen a push-pull pot on a synth. Therefore,
lots of synths must have them. Send those cards & letters!
--
john


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>
> --Does anyione know where to get these dual independent pots?  Cheap?
> Surplus?  Etc? >>
>
> Hello Charlie,
>
> You might look at Stewart-Macdonald, the guitar maker's catalog superstore
(
> <A HREF="http://www.stewmac.com/">http://www.stewmac.com/</A>).  They have
a
> few dual concentric pots in their offerings.  Unfortunately, they don't
have a
> lot of values available -- just the ones that are typically useful in
electric
> guitars and basses (usually 250K and 500K, maybe one or two other values).
If
> yoo're using the pots as simple voltage dividers, you can probably get
away
> with using just about any value of linear pot (from around 10K to 500K).
If
> you're using them as variable resistors, then you'll have to be more
picky.
> It's also possible to order dual concentric pots From Roland as spare
parts for
> BOSS pedals.  They have a lot of different values of dual pots in those
pedals.
>  Nice knobs that go with them, too.  Prices are not great, but definitely
> better than, say, buying one from Bourns or Spectrol.  Good luck.
>
> Michael Bacich