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Guys, where can I get knobs?? O_O

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Darth_Fluffy

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Well, the thing is I have a fanbus, and one of those cases with a door. The door only allows me 6.5mm space between the surface, and my the knobs I had with the fanbus are 12mm. So, that's almost twice as long. I doubt I could cut a piece off of them, and make it look nice, but before I try I'm wondering if I could just buy some knobs somehwere that were, say only 5mm high? I think the maximum width I can have is about 20mm in diameter, but that's beside the point. Where can I buy some, anyone?
Help a brotha out ;)
 
I'm pretty sure they are called rheostats. Search until you find what you need.
 
It would be a bit of a help if we knew which case you have so that if any of us have the same case and a rheobus, we could share our info with you. My case for example is a Chieftec Matrix (which has a front door), and my rheobus is a Zalman ZM-MFC1. The rheobus fits perfectly behind the door and does not make contact with the door either.
 
Thats very tough because (depending what company fanbus you have) the pots also take up room with the thread and nut that hold them onto the plate. I don't believe I have seen knobs that shallow. homebrew may be in order.

[edit] Just thought of something, you could glue some round pieces of plastic to the end of the pot shaft. Maybe...try plastic bottle caps. They are already fluted on the edges so they would look purfect. Just cut them down to the depth required and sand and paint or dye them, then find the center and glue them to the tip of the shafts.[edit]
 
Pagan Wizard said:
It would be a bit of a help if we knew which case you have so that if any of us have the same case and a rheobus, we could share our info with you. My case for example is a Chieftec Matrix (which has a front door), and my rheobus is a Zalman ZM-MFC1. The rheobus fits perfectly behind the door and does not make contact with the door either.
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I have much the same fan controller, and the case is powmax demon, an Antec clone from what I see. The ... uh ... rheostats stand about 14mm proud of the surface, and considering I only have about 6.5mm to the door, there's no way they would fit. There are several approaches to this. I could use the router bit and dremel the door untill the impression I make is deep enough to accomodate for the um.. rheostats. Also, the plastic panel the Zalman controller has stands on four metal washers. I could get some four 1mm thick washers to raise it up a total of 4mm. Any more, and the LEDs won't stick through their holes completely anymore, and look, well, ugly. So, that reduces the standoff from 14mm to merely 10mm. After that, of course, I would have to cut off pieces from the plastic ... things... on the turning regulators themselves, and keep grinding the rheostats into oblivion. Oh, and the thread is useless as far as I'm concerned. without the thread, if I push the.... rheostat on the smooth plastic, there will be too much friction in between the two not to matter. I'd have a hard time taking it off again.

By the way, I've seen many people complaining about Zalman putting their company website, and a bunch of other shit on the plastic panel. A simple q-tip and some acetone will rid you of that. Also, I had to pain the black border again, on the outside edge. Otherwise, it would have looked good in an acryllic case, but looked bad in my black case.
 
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I take it the device itself is called a rheostat, and the knobs are... well, knobs. And I still can't find a source of them.
 
I'm not sure that you will find knobs that small. If possible, you could always mount the existing knobs farther back into the faceplate.

If it's a premade rheobus, try to mount the whole thing back 5mm, then use a blank faceplate (and some spacers) to fit overtop, with holes that the knobs can stick through part way.
 
Jynio said:
I'm not sure that you will find knobs that small. If possible, you could always mount the existing knobs farther back into the faceplate.

If it's a premade rheobus, try to mount the whole thing back 5mm, then use a blank faceplate (and some spacers) to fit overtop, with holes that the knobs can stick through part way.
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I'm pretty sure 5mm thick knobs exist. The thing is, I can't seem to find any kind of knob anywhere.
 
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