iamstuffed.com » Potentiometer http://iamstuffed.com/blog Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:36:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Broken shaft… http://iamstuffed.com/blog/2008/02/11/broken-shaft/ http://iamstuffed.com/blog/2008/02/11/broken-shaft/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:49:16 +0000 iamstuffed http://iamstuffed.com/blog/2008/02/11/broken-shaft/ Thursday I was trying to remove the volume and tone knobs on my electric guitar so I could adjust the height of the knobs (two were touching the finish) and one of the potentiometer shafts broke.

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Replacing the potentiometer shouldn’t be too hard, since I’m pretty good at soldiering and they are relatively cheap. I just have to worry about getting an appropriate sized pot for the Epiphone, since most of the parts on it are metric rather than the US sizes that Gibson uses.

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