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numbernone
Joined: Aug 16, 2006 Posts: 477 Location: new york city
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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 5:57 pm Post subject:
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Post some great places to buy knobs, I've settled on the model for my modular, but would love to use some more interesting options on individual smaller projects. Colors and sci-fi appeal a plus!! Obviously the best stuff is coming off old lab gear and the like, but aint much of that turning up around these parts...the human scavengers never sleep; I missed a full size weighted piano keyboard assembly out of the trash recently |
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Rykhaard
Joined: Sep 02, 2007 Posts: 1290 Location: Canada
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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:01 pm Post subject:
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Buy a 3/4" dowel of Birch or Poplar and make your own! I get 48 knobs out of a 4 foot dowel, for about $4.00 And a little bit of work.
http://www.damian.deathlehem.com/knobs.html
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factus10
Joined: Jun 20, 2007 Posts: 158 Location: Buffalo, NY
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:12 am Post subject:
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Beautiful knobs! |
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Rykhaard
Joined: Sep 02, 2007 Posts: 1290 Location: Canada
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:39 am Post subject:
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factus10 wrote: | Beautiful knobs! |
Thank you much! Many don't look as good as I wish. Usually when I'm doing them, I'm rushing it a bit. They help get each knob's function across at least, which has been really handy. |
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numbernone
Joined: Aug 16, 2006 Posts: 477 Location: new york city
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:41 am Post subject:
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I love the wooden knobs! How do you keep them attached to the pot shafts?? Set screws?? Fill me in please...
Thanks |
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Nosferatu
Joined: Jul 27, 2007 Posts: 234 Location: Planet Rock.
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:39 pm Post subject:
Re: Favorite source for knobs? |
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http://www.saitenmarkt.com/lshop,showdetail,436,d,1193083183-462,,30250308,,,.htm |
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Rykhaard
Joined: Sep 02, 2007 Posts: 1290 Location: Canada
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:04 pm Post subject:
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numbernone wrote: | I love the wooden knobs! How do you keep them attached to the pot shafts?? Set screws?? Fill me in please...
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Thank you much as well!
Tell your family; tell your friends - rush out to pick up some dowels and have a knob making party, this Sat'day night or sumthin'.
The amount you'd save compared to commercial knobs, is huge. Plus - you can colour them, any way that you want.
That has been the biggest bitch-slap since I started in '05 with the cork knobs, originally. I started changing to wood, 1 year ago.
- Surgical gloves as a roughage, didn't work very well
- Clear silicone, would loose it's grip if forced too much
- Glue gun glue, wouldn't adhere to the aluminum shafts for very long
- Sinking in threaded bits, would strip the wood too easily
I've now used LePage's #11 2 part epoxy which is best for wood and metal. The only minor bummer there - it's basically permanent. I have to make 100% sure, that the panel is final, before epoxying the knobs to the shafts.
At the $ savings / knob though - WHO cares?? LOL I'm still happy as heck with the entire situation. |
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Uncle Krunkus
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Joined: Jul 11, 2005 Posts: 4761 Location: Sydney, Australia
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:26 pm Post subject:
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I've got a big collection of knobs.
One box of imperial (which was greatly expanded when I decide to change the knobs I wanted to use on the Sorcerer), and another box full of metric (which quickly grew when I decided to canabilize a Fostex 8ch recording mixer).
Even so, I've often thought about "rolling my own". Potting them from epoxy is definitely feasible. Still, I'd need to come up with a design which was original enough to justify the trouble.
Fimo is another possibility.
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dar303
Joined: Jul 15, 2007 Posts: 97 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:15 am Post subject:
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Taiwan Knobs has a great selection of standard and not-so-standard knobs and switch-caps and can make custom items for you.
They have a minimum order of somewhere around 500-100 pieces i think.
http://www.knobs.com.tw |
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Photon
Joined: Mar 22, 2005 Posts: 363 Location: Boston
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:08 am Post subject:
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If cheap is part of your knob equation, have a look at this site. (theres much of interest here to this group, actually):
http://www.electronicpeasant.com/projects/ssdrums/ssdrums.html
I feel a bit weird typing this as I've settled on Davies Molding 1900-H's for my system, which are really effin' expensive. But aesthics are important to me (or so I keep telling myself. limp limp.) I'm able to justify it to myself because I'm able to make my panels for under a couple dollars each
( delusional )
p. |
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numbernone
Joined: Aug 16, 2006 Posts: 477 Location: new york city
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:53 am Post subject:
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I have also settled on the davies 1900, buying them from Mouser. At first I was kinda bummed that they have no indicator line, but now I like it cuz I will be painting on my own lines/dots etc.
But man oh man they are exactly perfect for my layouts, and oh so comfortable and nice and shiny and...
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neandrewthal
Joined: May 11, 2007 Posts: 672 Location: Canada
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:56 am Post subject:
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Does anyone know of a good source for knobs for knurled shafts? I want to use those $.50 futurlec pots but I can't find any good knobs for them. |
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Funky40
Joined: Sep 24, 2005 Posts: 875 Location: Swiss
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 6:28 pm Post subject:
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neandrewthal wrote: | Does anyone know of a good source for knobs for knurled shafts? I want to use those $.50 futurlec pots but I can't find any good knobs for them. |
http://www.sibalco.de/indexho.html
the site will come in english this year do they say... |
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neandrewthal
Joined: May 11, 2007 Posts: 672 Location: Canada
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 8:48 pm Post subject:
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Thanks! |
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Luka
Joined: Jun 29, 2007 Posts: 1003 Location: Melb.
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jhaible
Joined: May 25, 2007 Posts: 2014 Location: Germany
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:29 pm Post subject:
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Does anybody know if these knobs are still avaible somewhere:
http://home.debitel.net/user/jhaible/compact_clone1.jpg ?
40mm diameter, 30mm height ...
I used to buy them from www.conrad.com, but they don't have them anymore.
JH. _________________ "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." (Mk 11,23f) |
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jhaible
Joined: May 25, 2007 Posts: 2014 Location: Germany
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:31 pm Post subject:
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Luka wrote: | hey does anybody know where i can find these cliff electronics knobs, or any similar
pref, i would like something with a diam. under 18mm, these are 19
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That's funny, because I bought some knobs that look like this a few months ago. I just don't remember where. www.musikding.de probably, but they only show gold couloured sones of that shape on their site ...
JH. _________________ "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." (Mk 11,23f) |
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TheAncientOne
Joined: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 144 Location: United Kingdom
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Nosferatu
Joined: Jul 27, 2007 Posts: 234 Location: Planet Rock.
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Luka
Joined: Jun 29, 2007 Posts: 1003 Location: Melb.
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Luka
Joined: Jun 29, 2007 Posts: 1003 Location: Melb.
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:20 am Post subject:
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got a question for the electro-music crew
seeing as this is a thread on sources of knobs, can people point me in the direction of all the cheap hong kong ebay dealers.
i know of only the e-store "partspipe" link
so are there any others?? _________________ problemchild
melbourne australia
http://cycleofproblems.blogspot.com/
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jhaible
Joined: May 25, 2007 Posts: 2014 Location: Germany
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:56 am Post subject:
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I only see smaller ones here.
JH. _________________ "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." (Mk 11,23f) |
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jhaible
Joined: May 25, 2007 Posts: 2014 Location: Germany
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:00 am Post subject:
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The left one in the picture looks right, but the description is for the right one. (Need one with 30mm height!)
I remember in the German Conrad catalogue, these two used to be paired as well, so maybe Swedish Conrad crries the other one as well.
JH. _________________ "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." (Mk 11,23f) |
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jhaible
Joined: May 25, 2007 Posts: 2014 Location: Germany
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:09 am Post subject:
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jhaible wrote: |
The left one in the picture looks right, but the description is for the right one. (Need one with 30mm height!)
I remember in the German Conrad catalogue, these two used to be paired as well, so maybe Swedish Conrad crries the other one as well.
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I checked Conrad Germany again. They have the same knobs as Conrad Sweden.
But that "left" Knob seems to be a smaller version of what I used to have (29mm diameter, 18mm height)
JH. _________________ "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." (Mk 11,23f) |
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toppobrillo
Joined: Dec 10, 2005 Posts: 766 Location: oakland, ca
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:48 am Post subject:
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Quote: | got a question for the electro-music crew
seeing as this is a thread on sources of knobs, can people point me in the direction of all the cheap hong kong ebay dealers.
i know of only the e-store "partspipe" link
so are there any others?? |
not hong kong but cheap:
emtel electronics on ebay (do a search in "business and industrial" for control knob)
most of them are D-shaft though.
josh |
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