[sdiy] Thoughts on sliders...

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Friday 27 March 2009 05:40:19 pm Matthew Smith wrote:
> OK, I don't like sliders, simple as that.  Rotating a knob better suits
> the way I think (in circles?) and I find that I have much better
> mechanical control over a knob than a slider.  (Holding the knob between
>  finger and thumb, edge of hand resting on panel.)
>
> Having said that, as far as the dust problem is concerned, how much room
> to you have inside your panel?
>
> Someone mentioned a dust-skirt.  If you have a sufficiently large panel,
> with one slider's length free above and below the slider, you can put a
> piece of card, plastic, etc., under the panel, attached to the slider
> shaft.  Make this cover of sufficient length that it is covering the
> entire track at each extreme of travel (making it just over twice as
> long as the slider,) fold down the ends and sides and you will have a
> labyrinth which will keep out all but the smallest and most penetrating
> dust.
>
> Completely impractical unless you've got the space either end of the
> slider, but a possible solution for larger panels.

Not thinking in circles much here,  are you...?

How about a bit of flexible plastic stuff,  used as you mention but forming a 
loop around the body of the slider?  It'd have to avoid the terminals,  but 
other than that it seems workable to me.



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