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Originally Posted by Lionclaw
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?! 
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.  |
you might have fun taking the electric guitars apart. Hopefully you can put it all back together.
One of my favorites is one I have put together from spare parts taking the best of everything and building one to my specs. It has been taken apart so many times including the pickups It's been dubbed " Frankenstein's Monster " I suppose that's ok but as with any Frankenstein monster, if I see the local villagers coming down the road towards the castle with torches and pitchforks in the night, all bets are off.