my knob doesn't fit...

[Toney]

my metric shafts.

I love these Davies style knobs-
they are my personal favorite but for practical purposes most of the pots I buy are splined metric shaft and these things aren't. They are 1/4 inch and wobble around off center when fitted.
I've been toying with the idea of shims, but it's too much fiddling around.
Most of the push on style knobs that my local Richard Smith has are cheap and/or ugly looking.

Has anyone found a source of attractive higher quality splined metric shaft knobs?
Anything like these would be great..







no double entendre intended ..... oooo what a lovely set of melons..

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

I know Steve at Smallbear has too much on already, but maybe a 1/4 to 16mm converter sleeve would be a unique drawcard?? I'm looking for knobs at the moment, and get 1/4 offered, but all my shafts are 16mm..... (mine are D though, not spline).
Altronics (australia) has some 6mm knobs Toney, though not sexy ones.

[hairyandy]

my metric shafts.

I love these Davies style knobs-
they are my personal favorite but for practical purposes most of the pots I buy are splined metric shaft and these things aren't. They are 1/4 inch and wobble around off center when fitted.
I've been toying with the idea of shims, but it's too much fiddling around.
Most of the push on style knobs that my local Richard Smith has are cheap and/or ugly looking.

Has anyone found a source of attractive higher quality splined metric shaft knobs?
Anything like these would be great..







no double entendre intended ..... oooo what a lovely set of melons..

Toney,

I've got 100 black chickenhead knobs with a set screw that are metric.  They're just too small to fit a 1/4" shaft.  I got them off Ebay from 'hongkongsuperseller' and they were advertised as 1/4".  Shipping to send them back to Hong Kong was too much so I just ate the loss.  If they'll work for you I'll trade you some for something that you don't need...

[MartyB]

Just an idea... use a small segment of an old radio or tv rabbit ear as a shim.  you'd have to securely glue the shim to the shaft or drill a set screw hole in the shim, or use a c- shaped piece of the shim.  I've used this idea successfully.

[343 Salty Beans]

when all else fails, there's always hot glue  Just drop one drop in the hole, let it flow down the sides a bit, and shove it on?

Of course, if it set wrong, then you're be properly boned.

By your metric shaft.

(sorry, I just couldn't resist)

[Connoisseur of Distortion]

i have trouble with my knobs not fitting one another, sometimes. on my LXH2 project, the pots are PCB mounted. Made construction of the PCB hella easy, but now i have the skirts of the knobs overlapping by about 1 mm. irritating.

[Toney]

 
Hairyandy, sure I could be up for that.
I posted a bunch of stuff for trade some time back. The post is still there-page three of the for sale/trade forum. Only thing, I'm in Ausrtalia, not sure if the shipping would be any better than Hongkong, however that Hongkong guy seems to massively mark up his shipping costs. Real postage would be a fraction of his prices. PM me if you think it would work out .

That shim idea is actually a pretty good one, though I'd love to be able to source some decent metric knobs and have a permanant on going solution.

Had a look at the Altronics catalogue- yr right Paul, they have some ok ones. It strange that so few attractive-in the-stompbox-sense knobs are available in metric.