[SteveJB]

I have a very nice late version model 20 cathedral that I just started work on. I noticed that the volume control looked like it was missing the back cover.

After looking at the picture that comes with the schematic on Ryders, I see that it is really a two section control. The back section must have fallen off long ago. I am guessing that the wiring was connected to the front portion of the control nearest the chassis as I don't see any loose wires where it may have fallen off from.

Are there any other models that also used this part? It seems to be hard to locate and I am wondering if I see a beat up console if I could salvage what I need. They seem to be pretty common in my area on CL, but I am not sure which may have this part other than another model 20.

Thanks
Steve

[TA Forbes]

Yes, it was a two part control, and was in a couple of models from that year. They are tough but not impossible to find, I know of no aftermarket controls that apply.

Check with the Playthings of the Past site, also Mark Oppats Oldradioparts.net site.

[Carl Travis]

List hasn't been updated in the past year, but PTOP did show a p/n 4094 volume control available:
http://www.oldradioparts.com/potindex.txt

[SteveJB]

Thanks, I took another look at it today. Now I see two wipers so I believe it is intact, but without the back cover (if it had one to start with).

It was late when I looked at it last night and I am unfamiliar with these sets so I must have made a mistake. Thanks for helping. Sorry for the confusion.

Steve

[morzh]

What you could do, short of buying a new part, if this one is in fact operational, is to get a plastic bottle of some sort, kinda like they use in pharmacies to dispense drugs into, of such a diameter that would make it fit around the potentiometer snugly, or any similar diameter plastic tube with a bottom, cut of the bottom part such that it is the size of the lost cover (half-inch or so) and simply glue it over the pot. After all it is nothing more than a dist cover.

If, again, of course, the pot is in working condition which is easy to verify.