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Subject: Re: Mounting Conundrum, Revisited
From: rangerssuck <rangerss...@gmail.com>
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On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 6:06:29 PM UTC-5, Tim Wescott wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:02:26 -0800, rangerssuck wrote:
>=20
[trimmed]
>=20
> > How about mounting the pot semi-ridgedly on kinked or s-bent pieces of
> > bus wire? Pretty much free (except for 30 seconds or so of extra=20
> > assembly) and easily repairable. If the pot really has very low
> > rotational friction, the wires shouldn't bed in normal usage, but will=
=20
> > give enough to prevent damage. You could even try some springy piano=20
> > wire.=20
>=20
> Hmm.  Good thought, but it'd take a lot more than 30 seconds.  It's a =20
> surface-mount part, so mounting it as designed is very quick while=20
> mounting it just about any other way isn't so.

If you mount the pot on a separate little board, it would be easy. If you'r=
e making printed circuit boards, just add the little pot board to the layou=
t with either a score line or a tab route separating them. If you're going =
to breadboard this (as in your photos), just make up a bunch of little boar=
ds that hold nothing but the pot and four mounting wires.

IIRC, you were talking about small (20-100/year) quantities. Even if it too=
k an extra three minutes per assembly (which it won't), you're only talking=
 1 - 5 hours PER YEAR. I personally have probably a half hour into this pro=
ject already, between reading and writing.

Just sayin'