[sdiy] Wanred (dead or alive) : Pot

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Wednesday 17 August 2005 12:27 am, Tim Parkhurst wrote:

> What the world REALLY needs is a modular potentiometer. I know there
> are companies who say they have this, but you have to order five
> thousand of the darn things to get something special. What I mean is a
> set of hardware that you could slap together to make a single or a
> dual, it could be concentric or common shaft, and then you pick a
> resistor element, add a turn/off or pull/off switch if you want, and
> off you go! Yeah, I know, sounds a lot simpler than it would really
> be. Still, I think it could be done.

It's been some years since I looked,  but there used to be such a thing 
available,  in the context of places that supplied repair parts for consumer 
stuff...

But then,  have you noticed how much consumer stuff comes without any pots 
whatsoever these days?  :-(