K2 Knob tip

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K2 Knob tip

g3ymc
Like many of you I suspect I have been plagued with the black paint rubbing off the front of my K2 knob over time. I have repeatedly tried touching it up with black car touch-up paint but before long it looks a mess again. I have been considering attaching a new front plastic disc on it to sort the problem, but with my mechanical skills it would unlikely look very pretty.

Today I was eyeing a pile of electrolytic capacitors in the junk box. I picked up a 470uF 400V cap and noticed it had a nice black plastic disc on its top, covering up the aluminium below. Even better it was 34mm diameter, about the same as the K2 knob. A quick cut and pare with the wire cutters and it was removed and stuck on the front of my knob. Superb..... Maybe won't last, but I have quite a few more of those caps! And this mod doesn't even make the caps unusable, they work just the same without their plastic top!

73 Dave G3YMC