Cybercow
Well-known member
Just got in a Tayda 1590DD enclosure and that I had painted and drilled at a different shop. When it arrived, I started to go about the task of mounting the pots to start the guts-stuff-testing only to find that the walls on that enclosure will NOT allow the nuts on the 9mm pots to catch onto the shaft housing threads. I thought: "WTF?" . . . . So I got out some 16mm pots to see if they would still mount properly. Turns out 16mm pot nuts still caught on the threads, but only barely. Then I got out my micrometer to measure the thickness of the top of the enclosure. It measured consistently at 4.5mm. Again . . . "WTF?"
I can't use 16mm pots because of how the pot spacing is laid out - they're too close together to allow 16mm pots. 12mm pots would fit, but I don't stock 'em and never considered 'em.
In any case, (no pun intended, but there it is), watch out for more "seconds for the masses" from Tayda. A 4.3mm thickness on enclosure walls is way too thick for 9mm pots. I've ordered 12mm pots for the thick-walled (finished) enclosure to see if they will fit. And am sending the machining/painting house a fresh glossy-white 1590DD (from LMS) that is of standard 2.5mm thickness. Guess I'll be building two of them now if the 12mm pots work in the thick-walled box.
Watch out out there. Happy building!
I can't use 16mm pots because of how the pot spacing is laid out - they're too close together to allow 16mm pots. 12mm pots would fit, but I don't stock 'em and never considered 'em.
In any case, (no pun intended, but there it is), watch out for more "seconds for the masses" from Tayda. A 4.3mm thickness on enclosure walls is way too thick for 9mm pots. I've ordered 12mm pots for the thick-walled (finished) enclosure to see if they will fit. And am sending the machining/painting house a fresh glossy-white 1590DD (from LMS) that is of standard 2.5mm thickness. Guess I'll be building two of them now if the 12mm pots work in the thick-walled box.
Watch out out there. Happy building!