Replacement Potentiometer Advice

jcsveth · Joined: Apr 22, 2007 Posts: 23 Location: the south

Man - I keep coming back to the NM1 - tried to sell it a few times but always glad when I don't. Anyway, I have a couple pots which are playing up. I took one apart and saw it was a mechanical issue and not just in need of a clean. Does anyone know of any replacement pots? I would love to keep the original knobs but don't mind having something different under the cover. Do the other Nord keyboards use the same pot?

Vader77 · Joined: Nov 19, 2010 Posts: 40 Location: Death Star

The G1 uses the same pots as the earlier Nords (1+2). I read ages ago that there's some similar regular pot that can be filed down but the shaft diameter is tricky to find.
https://syntaur.com/Items/3175.html

jcsveth · Joined: Apr 22, 2007 Posts: 23 Location: the south

@Vader77, Thanks for the info. I know about Syntaur, but at $20 a pop, I will probably hold out until I can find a broken NM to part out. In the meantime, I ordered a couple of different 4mm shaft pots from China to see if I can adapt one to the NM.

ersatzplanet · Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Posts: 65 Location: Seattle, WA, USA

This might be the opportunity to do the Joystick modification to the NM1. Replace 2 pots with a joystick.

jcsveth · Joined: Apr 22, 2007 Posts: 23 Location: the south

That's an interesting thought. A little bit of pot shuffling...
I don't know, I have not come up with an elegant solution and am going back and forth between parting the whole thing out - expansion and all - or continuing to try to fix it. I haven't used it in over a year. Sad

ersatzplanet · Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Posts: 65 Location: Seattle, WA, USA