Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

Hello. This is my first post here. I was wondering if anybody knows if its easy to replace the rotary encoders. I was thinking about installing some rubber knobs for a better grip. Any advice would be highly appreciated (also about where to buy the knobs).

Thanks!

Adrian

Hi Adrian

> I was wondering if anybody knows if its easy to replace the rotary encoders. I was thinking about installing some rubber knobs for a better grip. Any advice would be highly appreciated (also about where to buy the knobs).
> 
The knobs are a standard rotary knob used on volume and tone controls and are a push fit.
They have a flat area on one side of the shaft.

Any knob that looks like this on the inside
C|
should be OK
The BC knob looks like this

C<
but the < part is just a bit of plastic to act like a spring to hold the knob on.
Watch out for the diameter of the new knob. There is a circle of LEDs you don't want to cover.
Pull one off and have a look.

As far as where to buy them I'm not sure where you are.
In Australia try Jaycar in the US try Mouser or DigiKey, the UK Maplin (are they still around?) or the internet, but I htink you should probably see them before you buy them so you get what you want.


All the best

Royce

I would like to thank you and the others is the group for your  
support, I have succeeded with the MKS 70 template.

For Mac OS X users, if anyone would like a step by step help for  
writing a text script, converting it to sysex (using the command line  
tool) and uploading it to the BCR, please ask me.

I'll post the sysex files (Tone A and B) soon.

Stublito

rpcfender wrote:
> In Australia try Jaycar in the US try Mouser or DigiKey, the UK Maplin (are they still around?) 

Yes, they're approximately everywhere. Here is their selection of knobs:

   http://maplin.co.uk/Search.aspx?criteria=knob

For a better selection, you could also try RS (professional-, rather
than consumer-facing, but they'll still sell to end-users):

   http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=retrieveTfg&binCount=331&Ne=4294957561&Ntt=knob&Ntk=I18NAll&Nr=AND(avl%3auk%2csearchDiscon_uk%3aN)&Ntx=mode%2bmatchallpartial&N=4294956691&Nty=1

(Sorry about the stupidly long URL -- I tried cropping it, and their site barfed.)
-- 
Frank Wales [frank@...]

That link is very broken - I cleaned it up and put it through TinyURL - a brilliant way to deal with posting long URLs!

http://tinyurl.com/ycqlzsc

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>From: Frank Wales <frank@...>
>To: bc2000@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Wednesday, 13 January, 2010 23:47:22
>Subject: Re: [bc2000] Re: replacing the knobs
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>rpcfender wrote:
>>> In Australia try Jaycar in the US try Mouser or DigiKey, the UK Maplin (are they still around?) 
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>>Yes, they're approximately everywhere. Here is their selection of knobs:
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>http://maplin. co.uk/Search. aspx?criteria= knob
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>>For a better selection, you could also try RS (professional- , rather
>>than consumer-facing, but they'll still sell to end-users):
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>http://uk.rs- online.com/ web/search/ searchBrowseActi on.html?method= retrieveTfg& binCount= 331&Ne=429495756 1&Ntt=knob& Ntk=I18NAll& Nr=AND(avl%3auk%2csearchD iscon_uk% 3aN)&Ntx= mode%2bmatchallp artial&N= 4294956691& Nty=1
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>>(Sorry about the stupidly long URL -- I tried cropping it, and their site barfed.)
>>-- 
>>Frank Wales [frank@limov. com]
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