Linear slide resistor

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by timmy

Is there a way to replace a slide resistor starting at 100k and ends around 1 meg. Keeping the housing but just replacing the resistor strip. I don’t know if aquadag would give the ohms swing that I need, a little over an inch long and 1/8 wide kind of small.

Get a roughly 900k pot, and a 100K fixed resistor and put them in series....when the pot is set to min you should get 100K. Some sets used a lot with mechanical range limited to achieve the same thing but it may look a bit weird doing that to a slider.

You're reminding me of a early 70s tube Panasonic I have where 2/3 sliders were wrecked giving no color and no sound, one pot the metal fingers broke off the plastic slide and I drilled and tapped the slide to reattach, the other slide was broken the same way but the fingers were completely missing....I was able to rob the slide portion of the pot from a similar vintage SS Panasonic that was beyond repair.

With enough creativity you can often get around really goofy issues.