[sdiy] How to repair potentiometers from a Moog parametric

[Dave Manley]

On 9/27/2011 7:17 AM, Florian Anwander wrote:
> Hello,
>
> a buddy of mine bought an Moog Parametric which was sold quite cheap because the potentiometers were described as "very noisy". In fact the potentiometers a worn out to a degree I have never seen before:
>
> http://fa.utfs.org/diy/moogparametric/IMG_0164_sm.jpg
> http://fa.utfs.org/diy/moogparametric/IMG_0165_sm.jpg
>
> Now: how to repair those? Usually I'd say, buy a standard potentiometer from the same brand, take the resitance pcb and implant it to the special potentiometer. But in this case I even do not know the
> brand, neither where to get them.
>
> Any hints or ideas?
>
> Florian

Hi Florian,

Is this the infamous 500 ohm linear + 50K audio pot that has stopped cloning?
Somebody posted a potentiometers.com website a while back.  They look like
they have the pieces (but not in this form factor) to build most any custom ganged
pot.  No idea what their low volume policy is.

-Dave