SDS100/SDS200: Uniden SDS100 Replacement plastic knob

[jonwienke]

Stupid LED tricks with clear PETG...

 

[GTO_04]

You should print some knobs up for the smaller knob used on the old BC780XLT models! People are always looking for that one.
I think I've seen eBay users wanting ridiculous prices for a 780XLT volume/power knob. Like $30 dollars.

Maybe someone has a sample they could send you if there is still any demand for the 780 knob.

This SDS100 knob looks good!

I HAVE had trouble with the 780 XLT knobs breaking, more than once! NO trouble at all with my 9 year old 396XT knob though.

GTO_04

 

[jonwienke]

I've updated my knobs, and am making them out of a medium-hard TPU. It's flexible and shock absorbing similar to rubber, but is 3D-printable and doesn't fall off when left in hot vehicles.

 

[jonwienke]

I HAVE had trouble with the 780 XLT knobs breaking, more than once! NO trouble at all with my 9 year old 396XT knob though.

FYI, I've officially started working on the 780XLT knob set in Fusion. I should have something available by the end of next week.

 

[ratboy]

The practice of not selling parts for radios and other items confuses me. Seems like it would be a no lose scenario to crank out a couple hundred knobs and sell them for the usual insane prices they want for them. A few sales at that high markup would pay for the making of the knobs and they would make a lot of people happy customers. In the gun hobby, there are several companies that refuse to sell any parts at all, unless you send the gun in. It's crazy. A friend was sent a mailing label to send in his gun which needed a grip screw! The local hardware store had some that fit, but they were brass or silver colored, not black, like the gun had originally. Solution? Replace all the screws with stainless steel ones that cost less than a buck.

I've had a lot of equipment where the knobs fell off. Back then, if you didn't have one that worked, it was go to RS and look to see if the blister card of assorted knobs had something, almost always some awful tan or ivory color if it did, and if not, go to friend's houses who were into electronics and look through their junk boxes. A 3D printer would have been a great help back then. I used to do a lot of repairs with hot glue and/or crazy glue, and sometimes just a hot soldering iron to melt a cracked knob back together so it would stay on the shaft. I had a radio where I used rubbing alcohol to remove some sticker residue from the tuning knob, and the knob literally came apart as I watched! I begged the manufacturer to sell me a knob, but they refused. They sent me one free! Nothing but a damp rag on the new one!