wobbly master pot - oh no

[Gary_Munday]

Hi,

Bad to hear about the bother your having with the pot/knobs. It's mostly likely self explanatory due to wear and weakening of the knob&components. You want to get that fixed as soon as really, because eventually bits and pieces could break off and go inside the unit. Then your in real bother.
A couple of things to prolong pots (also self explanatory)- just go easy on them. It's so easy to get carried away with an aggressive sound and tweak the hell out of them - but really, you want to tweak adequately, but carefully. My guess is - the person you got it from was having problems with volume and just had a bad 5 minutes.

Probably one of my only pet hates about modern VA's is their 'occasional' weak feel in design. Take an old classic, and the interface & pots are going nowhere most of the time. Hope you get it fixed.

[queglay]

ive got a pot in the mail so hopefully a bit of soldering and ill be on my way.

[Gary_Munday]

Bit naff that there's a large risk of damaged products through ebay though? Still, there's a risk.......it happens anywhere
Good luck with the repair

[queglay]

yeah. i wasn't impressed with the seller. he said the volume knob moves a bit more freely than the others. what he should have said was it is about to break off. he's gonna give me a bad review as a buyer when im done, but good riddence to him. hey if you have bad feedback as a buyer, does it affect your feedback as a seller?

[Gary_Munday]

I'm not sure. I've never got any of my gear from ebay, but honesty should be a definite clause of conduct--therefore it's bad that your having this trouble. If nothing goes to plan, could you not take it to a local electrical repair store?

[queglay]

yeah i could, but im pretty confident i could do it myself.

[Gary_Munday]

Cool......would save ££ as well!