Home Depot (or Lowes or whatever) will also sell plastic drill-size gages.
These are about 1/8" thick molded pieces of plastic with holes in graduated
sizes. A lot of them also have thread gages -- handy things to have.
You could walk over to the tool section and check before you go through the
checkout line.
Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ModularSynthPanels@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:ModularSynthPanels@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 7:57 AM
> To: ModularSynthPanels@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ModularSynthPanels] Re: Adapt 8mm pot for 3/8 hole
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> A while ago I bought some of those #5 o-rings on the advice
> of members of this group. My experience was that they were
> too big - I couldn't squeeze the (alpha) pot with the o-ring
> on it into the 3/8 hole. It's quite possible that home depot
> had them labeled wrong though. So when you're at the store,
> pick up some smaller ones just in case - they're cheap.
>
> --- In ModularSynthPanels@yahoogroups.com, "woostern"
> <woostern@...> wrote:
> >
> > Does anybody have a clever solution for mounting a 8 mm pot
> in a 3/8 hole (besides tightening the nut really hard)?
> >
> > I thought I remember somebody finding the perfect washer or
> rubber band, but can't seem to find the post in the archive.
> >
> > I guess I should stop being a cheapskate and order some of these:
> >
> >
> http://www.shopamw.com/servlet/the-50/NEW--dsh--Adapter-Washers/Detail
> >
> > Or just use Bourns.
> >
> > Nathan
> >
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