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  • Independent Concentric Pots???

    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

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    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.

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    • #3
      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...
      Murky Mark, Minister of Musical Mischief
      http://www.harmonicappliances.com/

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      • #4
        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.
        Education is what you're left with after you have forgotten what you have learned.

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        • #5
          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?

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          • #6
            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/part...potentiometers

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

            Ray

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            • #7
              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

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Mark Lavelle
                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.

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                • #9
                  Check this place out

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

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

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                  • #10
                    25/25K, 25K/250K - nice! Thanks for that link!

                    Ray

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                    • #11
                      Thanks Chandler! I think I can make this work, quite easily... now to find the knobs...

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                      • #12
                        Knobs? They got them too!

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

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by jaysg View Post
                          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.
                          If you look on ebay they have 1Meg/1Meg stacked dual concentric pots. I just purchased one and it worked like a charm. They are the same pots that ROONZE GUITARS
                          uses on there builds. I Ohmed it out and it was right on the money at 1Meg/1Meg.

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