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Thanks for that, I had not considered the end stops. The original one, with the flimsey wiper, had quite manly endstop nib on the shaft and housing moulding. These presets have similar sized physical end stops, the weakest point would be the two plastic pauls on the shaft that engage with the slot, about 3 x
1.5mm each in cross section. I would mount the body to pcb with hot melt glue. Guitarists and pot problems is usually the guitar controls where the fascia is plastic so no reliable mounting, so the nuts loosen and pots are then twisted round and round , windlassing the wires into a broken mess. That problem I cure by heavy-soldering a thick copper strip between all the pots, replacing the wire grounds between the pots-- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on