Independent Concentric Pots???

[Corona Blue]

Howdy-
Anybody know where I can order concentric independant pots? I've looked around the usual places like Mouser and Digikey. No problem finding "ganged" pots but not concentric, independent control. I would like to set up my BF Fender with a "mid" control as a center pot and "bass" as the outer. Would need knobs for this too.

Thanks for any ideas,

Allen

[jaysg]

The only generally available dual concentric is a dual 500k audio which is used on early Fender Jazz basses. You can get them from Stewart-MacDonald and Warmoth. I'd happliy pay $20 a pop if I could find some amp-worthy dual 1M audio's.

[Mark Lavelle]

I'd happliy pay $20 a pop if I could find some amp-worthy dual 1M audio's.It might take a few minutes of tinkering with Duncan's TSC, but I don't see why you couldn't adapt almost any stack to use 500k pots instead of 1Ms...

[Enzo]

Such pots are always made to order for the company that uses them. About the only way you will find them is to find them in some product and order a "replacement" for it from them. Maybe some dead car radios might have something you could use.

[Corona Blue]

Hmmm... so are you folks saying that I could get just any 24mm independent concentric stacked pot and then change out the carbon trace for the desired values? (250K-A bass and 10K-A for mid control) Anybody done this?

[Ray Ivers]

Allen,

If you'd be willing to do bass/treble instead of mid/bass, the CP2 pots at this link could be paralleled with a 470K resistor and would work, @ $10 each (knobs are extra):

http://www.warmoth.com/hardware/parts/parts.cfm?fuseaction=include_potentiometers

wdmusicproducts.com has them with knobs, @ $36 each.

Ray

[Carl / Zwengel Amps]

Here's a thought....you could wire it up with a Dumblesque tone stack then you could use the 250k audio pots for both the bass and midrange. might need to tweak the cap values a little to get the same response.

-Carl

[jaysg]

It might take a few minutes of tinkering with Duncan's TSC, but I don't see why you couldn't adapt almost any stack to use 500k pots instead of 1Ms...It's for the ef-86 preamp in my 18Watt. That can't take much of a load. A guy who's name escapes me (Don Jones?) used a CTS d-c 1M in JTM-45 to add a master in a volume hole. I'm not sure where he got it.

[H Chandler]

I know this is old business, but I found this place.

http://www.has-sound.com/parts.htm#Pots

[Ray Ivers]

25/25K, 25K/250K - nice! Thanks for that link!

Ray

[Corona Blue]

Thanks Chandler! I think I can make this work, quite easily... now to find the knobs...

[H Chandler]

http://www.has-sound.com/parts.htm#Knobs