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Originally Posted by Wolferz
The brown base plate is non-conductive compressed cardboard with a veneer glued to it.
I seriously doubt if you could get any type of glue to hold it together.
Pots are relatively cheap, so no need to save it unless you want to do what was suggested and use as instructional material.
At least it wasn't killed by homotrons.     |
Ah cool. Thanks.
Yeah I suppose it would fall apart if it was glued together and used in an appliance.
Looking at a similar model, although a 500 Ohm one. A part of the wiper that slides on the track seems to be gone as well on the broken one.
The broken one is a 1M Ohm linear pot.
And I had to Google "Homotron".
What?!
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Originally Posted by Commander Wallace
I'm not sure if you are just tinkering with the potentiometer to see how it works but if you are using it for a guitar, I have a web site I have used that supplies first rate musical equipment. This includes electronics like pickups and potentiometers and everything else . The parts are first rate
http://www.stewmac.com/is the site for the company and
http://www.stewmac.com/Pickups_and_E...nts_and_Parts/
the 2nd listing is the page with the electronic pots. As you can see, the pots can be had for $1.00 up to $ 5.75. I'm not sure on the shipping costs to Sweden though . As Wolferz said, they are relatively cheap. Hope this helps you Lionclaw |
I just bought the stuff to experiment with a breadboard and stuff like that.
Since it was broken I felt like opening it up and have a look and see how a pot looks like inside. It's quite educational to see how things work.
Off topic: Earlier this year I opened up my old "HTC Wildfire S". Quite a lot of things in a smart phone. http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...&postcount=247
There's an electronics online shop I have bought a few things from earlier this year. They have tons of stuff.
http://www.electrokit.com/en/
I have two electric guitars, but I have never opened them up and looked at the electronics. Might be a thing to check out.
