| The "wobbly" pots are called "fleximount" and are designed to decouple the shaft from the element of the potentiometer. They are great for mobile products and withstand impact better than solid shaft / bush assemblies. They are perfect for robotic assembly that we use for this product. We have fitted thousands and they are totally reliable.
Because of the adverse opinion about feel we introduced a neoprene o ring and washer that reduces the flex by about 75%.
We have an all metal shaft option coming available this next quarter and we will run tests in the field for the mobile guys. I hope they have the required durability and are as good as fleximounts.
A lot of our Series 8T's have gone to location applications, live sound, film etc., where rough environments need these parts. All our large console series have all metal shafts which are made in our own factory to our design.
Naturally, due to the very low cost of the Series 8T some of them have been bought for small studio use and I agree the feel may not be what engineers are used to in that application.
Again, choice is good.
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