Where to get Rickenbacker push-pull pot

[prowla]

Well, I had a push-pull pot for a Shaftesbury Ric copy I'm doing up, but it turns out it's too tall to fit.

Can anybody point me at where to get a Ric 330k pot with the SPST push-pull switch, please?

[KevB]

Try rickysounds.co.uk if he is still operating. I got the classic tone push pull pot from him.

Edited September 30, 2017 by KevB

[prowla]

Thanks - his ones are not the Ric ones and are 500k. Also, they have the terminals on the bottom and the guitar has a shielded control bay.



The real Ric ones are 330k and like two stacked pots (with the upper one being a simple SPST switch).



(I have ordered a cheap Chinese one on a punt that it might fit, but I think it'll be too tall also.)

Edited September 30, 2017 by prowla

[prowla]

They're $9.50 in the US from Pick of the Ricks, but shipping adds another $15.50, which comes out at £18.60.
But that takes it over the £15 threshold, so if it's stopped by customs there'll be Import Duty and VAT added, adding about £4.
And the mail service will add a £8 service fee.
So totalling £30 for a piddly $9.50 unit.

(Getting two reduces the per-shipping price, but that definitely takes it over the customs limit.)

Edited September 30, 2017 by prowla

[prowla]

OK - I found a UK supplier at £19, which is pricey, but less of a faff.

(There'll probably be loads of them on offer for less somewhere next week!)

[KevB]

Ok. I know the one he fitted to my 4003 bass fitted fine and works how it should. By pure chance his place was a fairly short drive from me so he offered to fit it for a few quid extra while i nipped off for a coffee.