am i blind or just stupid

[dirk666]

how do i attach a pot through the front panel?
I thought you just put the nut on the face side of the panel and fed the thread
through your hole using tension to hold it in place.
Of course this didnt work it just spins around.
It has a little arm sticking foward that i bent over so that the thread would reach through enough to get the nut on.
Im sure the solution must be simple but i aint seeing it.

 

[asm]

:?

theres no way it can spin if your tightening the nut with one hand and holding the pot with the other.
unless they supplied you with the wrong size nut and its not threading, your turning the drive shaft, ect.

 

[gyraf]

..but basically you're right, the pin on the front of the pot is to stop unwanted movement...

 

[Scodiddly]

You're supposed to drill a little hole for that pin you bent down. :roll:

 

[Ptownkid]

Or just tighten the nut enough so that it can't spin...

 

[bcarso]

Lockwashers are an alternative, although not as sure-fire as the keying thing you bent. One between the pot and the panel such that the barbs dig in and prevent the pot body from turning, and one under the front panel nut to prevent it from turning.

In the good old days and sometimes still, manufacturers used to supply one or more lockwashers with the pot hardware.

A lot of times the pot is PC-mounted in commercial equipment so it's prevented from rotating due to that.

As ptownkid says make it tight enough and it will hold indefinitely. Although Murphy says it will start to get loose at inconvenient times...

 

[CJ]

Front and back:

 

[soundguy]

Lock washers are the way to go with DIY IMO. The problem with the small hole for the tab (which of course is the most effective method, pot physically cant spin like that) is that you have to mount the pot flush to the panel which often times can leave a bunch of thread sticking through the panel so your knob now sits way off the front panel. Some knobs have more room to "swallow" more shaft (heh heh heh, you said swallow shaft), some front panels are thicker or tinner, there are lots of variables, but the nice thing about using lock washers is that you can build them up with a nut on the shaft so you get exactly the right amount of mounting surface that you want on your front panel.

Hopefully that makes some sense.

With lock washers on there, if you are turning the pot so hard that you move its registration, you are gonna wear out that pot fast. Lock washers will hold a pot on there ultra tight, you just have to hold the pot in place with a pliers while you tighten the nut.

dave

 

[CJ]

 

[chrissugar]

:green:

chrissugar

 

[dirk666]

look I leave you guys alone for a couple of days and you go and get all helpful on me. cheers problem sorted.

On another train of thought... does anybody have a microwave oven that doesnt anoy the **** out of them? beeeeep beeeeep beeeeeeep! Leave your food in there for 5mins after its done. BEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEEP! **** you'd think it was a matter of life and death. BEEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEEEP! "Im soldering you ******* inconsiderate ******, ill eat when im god damn good and ready!"

Polyphonic appliances that is what we need. Programable. Anybody got a scheematic?

 

[bcarso]

dirk man---get some sleep man. Tomorrow is another day....

You are NOT the Antichrist, no matter what your friends have said.

 

[Mendelt]

I bought the cheapest microwave i could find (15 euro's) and it has a mechanical egg-timer type clock where you turn a dial to the number of minutes you want to cook your food and it turns back and goes Bling.

That's what you need.

Bling

 

[CJ]

your an electronics geek, you own a pair of needle nose?
put the beeper in the same pile as your seatbelt beeper. and your "keys in the ignition" beeper, and your lights left on" beeper, and "you forgot to put the seat back down " beeper.

I pull the food at second one and let the next guy clear the counter.
\which is usualty me.

:grin: