MN Taper Blend Pots - US Suppliers?

Mouser has alot of products. Notwithstanding the website is seriously lacking. Almost impossible to manipulate shopping carts, comprehend/trust the product descriptions & decipher the specs of certain things like pots. I would almost rather pay more and know what i am gonna get.

 

IME, the trick with Mouser is to already know exactly what you want, have the part number in hand, and then find it by either a Google search or the internal Mouser search engine. They stock a lot of stuff that I can only manage to find that way. Mouser and Digikey are also both pretty good about dealing with special orders, although manufacturer dictated minimum quantities can easily be a deal breaker.

 

eBay? When I want unusual values or physical formats that often seems to be the best bet. For instance:

Alpha 100K OHM Dual MN-Taper Blend-Balance Potentiometer Center Click ~USA STOCK | eBay

But of course Tayda will probably sell you the exact same part for a buck or less.

 

Tayda is in Thailand but they were very fast before the pandemic hit. They stock a lot of Alpha pots that I can never seem to find in the US.

Another option is little PCBs for the pots with through-hole pins, I just roll my own:



I can help you with that if you like, just PM me. It'd take about two weeks to get the right format boards for a blend application made and delivered, and since I need to do something very similar for a client right now anyway, no charge on my end. You would order direct from the PCB fabricator in Portland once I sent you the board CAM file. Should be considerably less than 5 bucks for three boards, shipping included. IME this makes the pots more robust too, since it's harder to tweak an individual lug.