FWIW, Will and I use, so far anyway, exclusively 3/8 pots... we're also comfortable drilling out smaller holes to the 3/8 size.
We recently did a build for a friend using alphas for the first time and did our best to center the pots in the holes. Now that we know about the O-rings, we'll get them to retrofit as we haven't made delivery on the module yet.
But I suspect there are many more than us who use 3/8 in pots.
Bill and Will
--- In ModularSynthPanels@yahoogroups.com, "Todd" <babysealclub@...> wrote:
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> I use #47 (maybe 49, whichever is the smaller) O-Rings from Home Depot. They're usually over by the sink repair stuff and come in packs of ten. I also use these for banana conversions, but they're a bit tricky to get in with banana's.
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> Does anybody besides Dave and Steve still need the larger hole?
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> -TF
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> --- In ModularSynthPanels@yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <sduck409@> wrote:
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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.
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> > --- In ModularSynthPanels@yahoogroups.com, "woostern" <woostern@> wrote:
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> > > Does anybody have a clever solution for mounting a 8 mm pot in a 3/8 hole (besides tightening the nut really hard)?
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> > > I thought I remember somebody finding the perfect washer or rubber band, but can't seem to find the post in the archive.
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> > > I guess I should stop being a cheapskate and order some of these:
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> > > http://www.shopamw.com/servlet/the-50/NEW--dsh--Adapter-Washers/Detail
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> > > Or just use Bourns.
> > >
> > > Nathan
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