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Alembic products => Owning an Alembic => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: pas on November 29, 2005, 02:25:34 PM

Title: Loose volume knob
Post by: pas on November 29, 2005, 02:25:34 PM

Help...the volume knob on my spoiler is loose.  It's securely attached to the shaft.  If you think about it as being the face of a clock, the normal turning spectrum would be from 2 to 10.  When it should come to a full stop at 10, it keeps moving...ahhhh!  I'm woefully ignorant regarding the interior guts...I only take the back plate off to change the battery on occasion.  Any help fixing my old friend of 20 years would be most greatly appreciated.  Thanks...
 
Paul

Title: Loose volume knob
Post by: serialnumber12 on November 29, 2005, 02:55:03 PM

these links should be useful@//http://club.alembic.com/Images/16271/16311.html?1107542275 (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=200)
 
(Message edited by serialnumber12 on November 29, 2005)

Title: Loose volume knob
Post by: serialnumber12 on November 29, 2005, 03:09:47 PM

scroll down to (knobs)http://www.alembic.com/support/care.html (http://www.alembic.com/support/care.html)

Title: Loose volume knob
Post by: mica on November 29, 2005, 03:58:58 PM

If you can spin the control knob around and around, then the stop in the pot has broken and the pot will have to be replaced.

Title: Loose volume knob
Post by: pas on November 29, 2005, 04:08:46 PM

It doesn't go around & around...there's still some resistance when it gets to 10...it just doesn't come to a hard stop like it used to.

Title: Loose volume knob
Post by: mica on November 29, 2005, 04:20:14 PM

The stop is failing. If you are gentle, it will be fine for a good while before it fully breaks. Even after breaking, you can usually still use it - just gets squirrely where the stop was.  
 
You might want to plan on having it fixed sometime when you're on vacation. Just send us the electronics and we can replace the pot and do the RF upgrade on it at the same time.