Re: 3rd Hand + DL-4(was: Boss RC-2 Shipping Now...Just RecievedMine)

[Larry Stites <ncnet@sbcglobal.net>]

Gives me a hard on just reading it! (cylindrical socket, shaft, side-screw,
20 minute job, firmly hold the half-shaft in the socket, 3rd Hand, Tweek,
Tweeze, and Mix, might get into trouble, Algorithm knob, detented knob,
enormous pain, use your foot and zero in on the "notch"??!!

Whachusay?!


... By the way, Recevied is misspelled in the subject line... And so is
detented - what ever that means.



L


on 11/14/06 7:19 PM, mech wrote:

> At 9:19 PM -0800 11/13/06, William Walker wrote:
>> I'm wondering how the third hand handles half shaft potentiometers like 
>the
>> ones that come on Line 6 pedals, or if it can only be used on solid or 
>split
>> shaft pots.. Any one with experience with the third hand and line 6 
>pedals.
> 
> Well, I'll be happy to actually try out that combination when I
> finally get back home, but it's going to be a coupla weeks yet.  :P
> 
> However, the 3rd Hand terminates in a cylindrical socket secured with
> a single side-screw, IIRC.  As long as the shaft can fit inside the
> socket in the first place, I think it ought to work okay.  If
> anything, you might only need to replace the current side-screw with
> a longer one that would reach far enough to rest against the flat
> side of the half-shaft.
> 
> Or, if that were still an issue, I wouldn't imagine it being much
> more than about a 20 minute job to have a local machine shop rough
> out an "adapter" that would firmly hold the half-shaft in the socket.
> 
> Since the pots have a smooth continuous flow, I could envision the
> 3rd Hand working okay with the Tweek, Tweeze, and Mix knobs.
> However, I wonder if you might get into trouble using it for the
> DL-4's Algorithm knob.  With a detented knob like that one, I'd think
> it would be an enormous pain to use your foot to zero in on the
> "notch" for a particular algorithm.
> 
> --m.