I had a bit of a strange issue happened with a pot. I am building and ES type guitar, and the only way to fit the pots is through the F-holes. Normal sized pots don't fit, so this is the first time I'm using minis. It's also the first time I am using pots that have 24 spline shafts. I got some knobs that would fit and I put one of the knobs on one of the pots to test the fit. It fit fine, but when I tried to pull the knob off it pulled the entire shaft out of the pot.
The way the shaft is held on with most pots is by a crimp in the bottom. In this case the crimp just a broke off. I was using a CTS mini pot. The construction is a little bit different on other brands but the crimp is fairly similar.
It was fairly easy to fix because I have not yet installed the wiring harness in the guitar. I just took the pot apart and put the shaft and rotor assembly from another pot in it. Since the resistor wafer is not attached to the assembly in CTS pots I didn't have to do any re-soldering.
Has anyone else had this problem? If it happens very rarely OK. But it would be a real pain if it happened when the wiring harness was installed in a semi-hollow
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