4 meg potentiometer

[ampdan]

I have a Ampeg Gemini I that needs a 4 meg switched potentiometer. I'm having an incredibly hard time finding one....Any ideas, suggestions welcomed. Thanks.

[benoit]

If you can find a non-switched one you might be able to transfer the wafer into a switched pot body.

[Kagliostro]

Sometime is very difficult to find a switched pot with the value we need

have you try to get a same value pot of the same factory, also if there isn't the switch, open the old and the new and try to have a mix of the two pot ?

or a new pot with switch also if the value isn't the same

Some friends that collect old radio sometime do that


Kagliostro

-- posted at the same time with the previous answer --

[ampdan]

If you can find a non-switched one you might be able to transfer the wafer into a switched pot body.

That's the problem. Somebody really destroyed the insides of this one...

[benoit]

If you can find a non-switched one you might be able to transfer the wafer into a switched pot body.

That's the problem. Somebody really destroyed the insides of this one...

I was actually thinking of a finding a new switched pot that would fit your application, and a new 4meg non switched pot to take from. That in itself is probably almost as tough as finding a 4 meg switched pot in the first place, who knows. Good luck.

[Andy Le Blanc]

Alpha makes a 5M linear. Good place to start.

used to be you could take a carbon resistor an a needle file and mod to the
right resistance. probably do the same to the carbon comp in a pot.

[Kagliostro]

wrong post, sorry, how to cancel it ?

Kagliostro

[ampdan]

Found one! I found a 4 meg, and I'll transfer the switch. Thanks!