Hi John,

All of the slider pots in my Polaris are the white body kind: Since these are prone to failure as you say, I'd like to get a set of the stronger replacement pots as backup against future needs.

Is MusicTek still offering these replacement parts? If not, would you (or Paul, of course) have a replacement part number to suggest I look into?

Thanks,

Syntegrator

--- In chromapolaris@yahoogroups.com, "John Leimseider" <leimseiderj@...> wrote:
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> The Polaris had two types of slide pots… The earlier ones were really fragile. They have the white bodies. They were replaced with much stronger ones, but there is a different footprint. All then later panel boards were drilled for both types. The earlier ones (at least most of them) have the holes for both, but don’t have the same mounting holes. When MusicTek bought the Chroma and Polaris stock from Fender, we got about 1700 of the new pots. To install them on the early boards, you had to cut some of the legs from each pot. These later ones are really solid. The early ones would get bad if they got pushed in from the top, or bumped from the side. I replaced LOTS of them.
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> I’d be really suspicious of the pots, if they’re the early ones, before worrying about the MUX or other electronic stuff. Just see if the wiper voltage is correct on the bad ones.
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> John Leimseider
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> Electronics Technician/ Technicien des instruments électroniques
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