"tony sayer" wrote in message
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In article , Dave Plowman (News)
writes
In article .com,
Andy Evans wrote:
I do believe stepped attenuators beat the rest - including Alps blue
and Black Beauties (I've used both).

I'm old enough to well remember stud faders used in broadcasting - built
regardless of cost (balanced faders would probably cost over 1000 quid if
available today). And the regular need for cleaning them. Conductive
plastic was a welcome invention...


Blimey!, I've still got some of them around somewhere, made by Painton
IIRC
signal box levers I thing we used to call 'em..

And I had a load of P&G faders and gave them away too!....

Maybe Dave was referring to the BBC *rotary* stud faders.
Mechanical works of art they were, with a knob the size of a saucer.
The fader assembly fitted into a cylindrical case a bit like a shell-case,
and latched with a comforting "click"

Iain