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Tip: Renovating pot with push-pull switch.
Due to hardened lubricant on the flimsy slide switch contacts
If anyone happens to know a generic name or name of the manufacturer? http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:gra...et/pot-sw2.jpg Has a positive feel going in and out, so more than just a slide switch. Logo? is a Studebaker type logo "lazy S" in a circle, M in a circle and then FE also use of J without a top bar as eJ If I was doing it again I'd feed a wire through the point marked "" over the boss "B" that connects with the axial shaft of the pot , and twist over the body to keep the boss from moving and dislodging the spring, (maybe , I would not be too sure, the other end would not lift, before you can restrain it). (You have to dismantle the switch if you need to renovate the pot) And no need to bend down the rear closure of the housing http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:gra...et/pot-sw1.jpg 1 mm squares on graph paper Didn't loose the spring but just in case dimensions are 0.55mm wire, 9mm arms inc ring , ends 9 mm apart, 2 turns minus angle between arms and 3.3mm o/d of ring. At mid position , maximum spring force , so not stable position marked between the and http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:gra...et/pot-sw3.jpg The flattish section with 2 nibs goes opposite the boss part of the other section. Hold together enough to add a small dot of hot-melt glue on each corner on the surface that slides in the housing, there is a bit of space there. Position the 2 parts as in the knob pulled out posistion , before gluing and check that it will go in the housing and over the pot shaft end. Now for the spring. Place the glued parts in an engineers cramp or similar to give some more temporary closing force, and easier to hold. Push spring, ring first, in through the side with the narrow slot leaving the arms outside enough to grab one , to force into the slot in the flattish PTFE part. Push both arms in , restrained by finger fleash in the larger hole of the other side. With a needle point or similar, through the narrow slot, force the other tail/arm into its slot. Remove the cramp carefully , in case the hotmelt is not suifficient, and loose the spring. Replace in the housing and wire down as described earlier , just in case the glue spots fail before finitshing off the slide switch refixing. Reminds me, when repairing some kit in a lab with some very large pieces of materials testing kit around, dynamometers etc. I was taking something apart to repair and some very complex shaped spring flew out. I requested the cleaners not to clean the floors etc that night , so could resume the hunt next day. Could not find it. Went to use the 500 ton dynamometer test set and the spring was in front of my face at eye hight lodged in one of the 1 inch diameter recessed Allen head bolt holes for the Amsler control pannel housing. -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/ |
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Tip: Renovating pot with push-pull switch.
On Feb 11, 6:18*am, "N Cook" wrote:
Due to hardened lubricant on the flimsy slide switch contacts If anyone happens to know a generic name or name of the manufacturer?http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:gra...et/pot-sw2.jpg Has a positive feel going in and out, so more than just a slide switch. Logo? is a Studebaker type logo "lazy S" in a circle, M in a circle and then FE also use of J without a top bar as eJ If I was doing it again I'd feed a wire through the point marked "" over the boss "B" that connects with the axial shaft of the pot , and twist over the body to keep the boss from moving and dislodging the spring, (maybe , I would not be too sure, the other end would not lift, before you can restrain it). (You have to dismantle the switch if you need to renovate the pot) And no need to bend down the rear closure of the housinghttp://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/pot-sw1.jpg 1 mm squares on graph paper Didn't loose the spring but just in case dimensions are 0.55mm wire, 9mm arms inc ring , ends 9 mm apart, 2 turns minus angle between arms and 3.3mm o/d of ring. At mid position *, maximum spring force , so not stable position marked between the and http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:gra...et/pot-sw3.jpg The flattish section with 2 nibs goes opposite the boss part of the other section. Hold together enough to add a small dot of hot-melt glue on each corner on the surface that slides in the housing, there is a bit of space there. Position the 2 parts as in the knob pulled out posistion , before gluing and check that it will go in the housing and over the pot shaft end. Now for the spring. Place the glued parts in an engineers cramp or similar to give some more temporary closing force, and easier to hold. Push spring, ring first, in through the side with the narrow slot leaving the arms outside enough to grab one , to force into the slot in the flattish PTFE part. Push both arms in , restrained by finger fleash in the larger hole of the other side. With a needle point or similar, through the narrow slot, *force the other tail/arm into its slot. Remove the cramp carefully , in case the hotmelt is not suifficient, and loose the spring. Replace in the housing and wire down as described earlier , just in case the glue spots fail before finitshing off the slide switch refixing. Reminds me, when repairing some kit in a lab with some very large pieces of materials testing kit around, dynamometers etc. I was taking something apart to repair and some very complex shaped spring flew out. I requested the cleaners not to clean the floors etc that night , so could resume the hunt next day. Could not find it. Went to use the 500 ton dynamometer test set and the spring was in front of my face at eye hight lodged in one of the 1 inch diameter recessed Allen head bolt holes for the Amsler control pannel housing. -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list onhttp://home..graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/ I'd douse the pot with Naptha, in a well-ventilated area, then give it a spray of tuner cleaner. That always works for me. |
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Tip: Renovating pot with push-pull switch.
hr(bob) wrote in message
... On Feb 11, 6:18 am, "N Cook" wrote: Due to hardened lubricant on the flimsy slide switch contacts If anyone happens to know a generic name or name of the manufacturer?http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:gra...et/pot-sw2.jpg Has a positive feel going in and out, so more than just a slide switch. Logo? is a Studebaker type logo "lazy S" in a circle, M in a circle and then FE also use of J without a top bar as eJ If I was doing it again I'd feed a wire through the point marked "" over the boss "B" that connects with the axial shaft of the pot , and twist over the body to keep the boss from moving and dislodging the spring, (maybe , I would not be too sure, the other end would not lift, before you can restrain it). (You have to dismantle the switch if you need to renovate the pot) And no need to bend down the rear closure of the housinghttp://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/pot-sw1.jpg 1 mm squares on graph paper Didn't loose the spring but just in case dimensions are 0.55mm wire, 9mm arms inc ring , ends 9 mm apart, 2 turns minus angle between arms and 3.3mm o/d of ring. At mid position , maximum spring force , so not stable position marked between the and http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:gra...et/pot-sw3.jpg The flattish section with 2 nibs goes opposite the boss part of the other section. Hold together enough to add a small dot of hot-melt glue on each corner on the surface that slides in the housing, there is a bit of space there. Position the 2 parts as in the knob pulled out posistion , before gluing and check that it will go in the housing and over the pot shaft end. Now for the spring. Place the glued parts in an engineers cramp or similar to give some more temporary closing force, and easier to hold. Push spring, ring first, in through the side with the narrow slot leaving the arms outside enough to grab one , to force into the slot in the flattish PTFE part. Push both arms in , restrained by finger fleash in the larger hole of the other side. With a needle point or similar, through the narrow slot, force the other tail/arm into its slot. Remove the cramp carefully , in case the hotmelt is not suifficient, and loose the spring. Replace in the housing and wire down as described earlier , just in case the glue spots fail before finitshing off the slide switch refixing. Reminds me, when repairing some kit in a lab with some very large pieces of materials testing kit around, dynamometers etc. I was taking something apart to repair and some very complex shaped spring flew out. I requested the cleaners not to clean the floors etc that night , so could resume the hunt next day. Could not find it. Went to use the 500 ton dynamometer test set and the spring was in front of my face at eye hight lodged in one of the 1 inch diameter recessed Allen head bolt holes for the Amsler control pannel housing. -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list onhttp://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/ I'd douse the pot with Naptha, in a well-ventilated area, then give it a spray of tuner cleaner. That always works for me. The problem was the switch part If you know it is due to solidified grease, then yes. There was some insulating black CuS building up which would not be nullified by such action, nor would mechanically strained or weekened springiness phosphor-bronze sliding contacts. Until you get inside you don't know what the reason is. -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/ |
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