| 50K linear pot with detent. Where can I buy one?
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Well, thanks to my fumbling and Ken Smith's totally incompetent design I managed to break the Bass pot in my Burner. This bass has the ENTIRE mini circuit board which is wired with very stiff flat multi-conductor ribbon supported just by the thin bakelite pot element. Feh. Needless to say I snapped it off. Since everything is potted the only "true" fix would be to replace ALL the electronics in the bass! Sorry, THAT ain't gonna happen especially given the problem was caused by bad design.
But all is not lost. There are three terminals still sticking out of the circuit board ripe for soldering! By ripping the pot pieces apart I manage to determine the pot value is 50k and being a tone pot with a center detent, it's obviously linear.
Well an internet search came up with a couple of decent candidates for replacement. But none had center detents. [Bourns seems to make the best ones, and they actually DO make those in a detent model but I just can't find any in stock anywhere; PDB181]
So my question to everyone here is do you know of any place I can buy a 50k linear pot with a center detent. I really like that detent feature because you can easily set the bass flat without looking. And anyway it has round knobs without pointers so you can't see anything even if you look!
Thanks if anyone can point me to some place that has one. | 
