<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 12 Feb 2024, at 15:02, Mike Bryant <<a href="mailto:mbryant@futurehorizons.com" class="">mbryant@futurehorizons.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I remember my brother's one from about 1972 had a meccano looking gearwheel so definitely used most of the travel. Not sure what brand it was though. I've also seen ones with lever arrangements. If you only a little part of the track it will soon wear out.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>True, but if you smack up against the ends of the pot when you stamp on the pedal, you'll break it even quicker, so the mechanical stops pretty much have to be before the ends of the pot travel, even if only a little.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>On some old crybabies, one of the "mods" was to adjust the travel so that you get either a slightly higher or slightly lower part of the range.</div></div></body></html>