Pot case grounding

[NickC]

I'm not fond of soldering to the back of pots. I do like to have a buss bar running close to the pots though. This is the method I use most often these days. Here are a couple more recent examples...

http://home.comcast.net/~seluckey/amps/ ... g_guts.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~seluckey/amps/ ... 02_big.jpg

Beautiful workmanship in those photos!

I've adopted the same buss-bar technique in my builds. I don't miss soldering to the back of the pot cases at all anymore (it always worried me what that amount of heat was doing to the innards).

[sepulchre]

I never solder to pot cases. I was warned off long ago by an old mentor from the HAM days. Okay wait, I have done it in guitars but that was many years ago. In amps a bus bar works great. And I've never had an issue with noise from ungrounded pot cases. I say leave them alone, they don't need it.

Just my 20n.