Group Order: Saten Aluminum Knobs from India

[PHilgeman]

I will be organizing a group order of the knobs from India. I will post more details later, as time is short right now. But if someone could start a Wiki, that would be great. I will post images and more info later, and if there isnt a Wiki, I will learn to make one.

For now, this is the link to a picture.

Lovely looking clear-anodised aluminium knobs

-Paul Hilgeman

[Variac]

Well, I'd like to think I helped precipitate this!
As you no doubt have determined, it would be nice to have the dot to mark position. More important is that the bottom isn't recessed to hide the nut of the switch or pot if it is attached to the panel.

Maybe this isn't such a big deal, because those nuts are pretty thin. I'll look at it again.

I think it would be really cool to get nice knobs from India.
I guess we need some price and avvailaility info..


Mark

[PHilgeman]

Like I said details are coming. I will check on all of that.

I will keep posting the updates, but unfortunately we can only effectively communicate for a few hours in the morning.

-Paul Hilgeman

[Variac]

I hope I didn't sound negative. Those knobs look great, and the more I think about it the less I think that the recess on the back is absolutely essential.

[Peter Daniel]

The nut will cause too much spacing and it will not look that good. But you can bore the recess in a front panel to hide the nut. Also, if using shaft extenders, this wouldn't be a problem

They look pretty good, those knobs.

[tcpip]

Originally posted by Variac
Well, I'd like to think I helped precipitate this!

Nice to know you're in on this, old friend.

BTW, how come none of you guys want a larger knob to go with this? Or are all of you so staid and respectable that a really outsize grab-it-and-twist knob doesn't turn you on any more?

Tarun

[pkpickard]

I've been talking to tcpip about the larger knobs, and it appears he is going to go ahead and order some based on his + my need. I'm also interested in the smaller knobs. Could we add the large knobs to the Wiki, and see if we could get any more interest?

I'm in for 10 of the small, and 5-10 of the large (depending on the final price.) If we ended up with a significant number of both, it would sure help to defray the shipping cost to bring them all over at once.

Let me know what you think!

Paul Pickard

[roibm]

Also interested... 10 small some big(depends on the price tho)

[tcpip]

Am intending to visit Mr.Valecha's workshop tomorrow and order 20 big knobs. I've decided to go in for 63mm instead of 50mm diameter. Height will be 30 or 35mm; not decided yet. And there will be a recess at the rear to hide the locknut of the potentiometer. The shape will be precisely cylindrical, without any taper or rounding of any edges. (The smaller knobs have a lovely, delicate taper.) And the colour and finish will be exactly the same as the small knob: "fine grain" finish, clear anodised.

For the position marker, I'll ask him to do something simple. I'll probably ask him to just use a 4mm drill bit and make an indentation at one point. This will create a circular depression, about twice the diameter of the depression he's marked on the smaller knobs. Should go very well with the smaller ones, and look like they belong to one set.

Unlike the smaller knobs, I don't know the price of the larger ones. Even Mr.Valecha does not. I'm hoping they'll be USD 5.00 or so each, but I'm mentally prepared for anything upto USD 8.00 each. And as you understand by now, the large knobs don't exist except in my mind. So please don't hope to see pics till a few weeks from now.

If you have any ideas/thoughts, please let me know ASAP. You have precisely 12 more hours before I leave home and hit the road.

Once I come back from Mr.Valecha's office, I'll post and tell you what specs we've frozen on. I think some of the finer details will be frozen based on his inputs about what works and what doesn't.

[PHilgeman]

Alright, it looks like we finally have some interest.

We will be doing small and large knobs.

I would like to post an estimate on the final cost prior to my shipping them, but we are still working out the details of the shipment. So, expect some numbers in the next two days.

For know lets put a tentative closing date on this for next week friday, the 12th. After wich the money will be sent to India.

I would expect about a 3 week turn-around time, as the large knobs have not been built yet.

So we are looking about 6 weeks out to get these into everyone's hands.

From the looks of it, these knobs will be much nicer than the ones offered by Kilo Int. and should actually be cheaper as well, not to mention the fact that you can get large ones.

I would like to ask a question. What size do you think is good for the large knobs?

Have a good one,
Paul Hilgeman