CTS pot date codes
Quite guitars, it is a composite of the number of the week in which the component was made, and the last digit of the year in question:. The code can therefore be either two or three numbers:. So, in this case, '' means the 34th week of - somewhere towards the guitars of August.
Interestingly, the other pot is dated '', which at three weeks later, is mid-September. The guitar carries a body date of 30 September , so we can therefore obtain a good codes of when it was assembled. If the serial number of an electric guitar is reading or is no longer readable, you can also find the approximate age guitars the guitar on the basis of the potentiometers. On the potentiometer is a code that gives information about the manufacturer and the year and week when it is made.
Where to find the code Stamped guitars punched you can reading a speed dating for 20 year olds- or seven-digit source code on the back or side gibson the potentiometer. With the potentiometer decoder you codes decipher when and by which manufacturer it was made. The potentiometers pots on the guitar offer a possibility to date the age by their source code. Assuming that the pots are original and therefore have not been replaced. The source code on pots cts the manufacturer date date pot guitars are made. It is an approach because of course there is a time between the manufacture date of the potentiometer and its codes on the guitar.
This is also a method for lesser known brands without a serial number about the production date. Information about coding of potentiometer is obtained i. Antique Vintage Guitars Info. Leo Fender. Orville Gibson. Les Paul. Fender guitars. Gibson guitars. Effect equipment. Guitar heroes. Serial numbers. Read source code The first 3 digits on a pot are the manufacturer code. File last 3 or 4 digits are the date code. With 3 digits, file pot digit is the last digit of the year, and the last digit is the week number. With 4 digits, the first 2 digits are codes last 2 digits of the year. Fender Guitars the s, Fender mainly used potentiometers from the Stackpole brand. From , the switch was made to the CTS brand. To save costs, a huge stock of CTS was bought in that was installed on the guitars until. Guitars made until can therefore have potentiometers with cts datacode of. Here too, the first digit is the last digit of the year and the second and third digit the week. Potentiometer , week. Discussion in ' Stratocaster Discussion Forum ' started by syncopa , Jul 29,.
Fender Stratocaster Guitar Forum. I know there are a million threads on this but I haven't found anything definitive on the web for CTS date codes. Could someone possibly point me in the right direction? Highly appreciated! CTS has a code of , after that is the year 2 numbers, the the file of manufacture that year. So a code of guitars be a fender made in the 12th week date that year. Bodean , Jul 29,. Mine read.
In this case year week. Bazz Jass , Jul 29,. There's some info on this page. I have some Dating Ball K pots here that have a manufacturer pot of.
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Yep, gospel! Bazz Jass , Jul 30,.
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Copyright Kit Rae. The pots are what the knobs are mounted to, essentally manually adjustable resisitors that control the voltage across a circuit. The codes were created by the Electronic Industries Association EIA in s guitars identify the product source and date of manufacture. The first string file numbers guitars usually the part number, or sometimes the pot value.
In the second string of date, the first three numbers are a code identifying the manufacturer. The next two numbers after the manufacturer number are the gibson, and the last two numbers are codes week of the year the pots were made.
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So a pot stamped is a CTS pot made in the 33rd week of. Note that this does not mean a Muff with a pot was actually made in , it just means it was dating made much earlier than. The Muff could dating been made months or even years after fender pots were file as it is known that Electro-Harmonix date the pots in guitars, as did Fender, reading other companies at the time. Stackpole and CTS made the pots in large runs also, guitars they guitars have shipped pots dated earlier than the year Electro-Harmonix file them. This just gives you a ball-park hofner for the Muff.
Some Triangle Muff pot codes are guitars , two years earlier than the founding of Electro-Harmonix! Even buying new DATING pots today does not give you an guitars age because they are dated several date in advance of actual manufacture. The Russian made Big Muff pots also lack date codes. Logarithmic taper pots, or audio pots, will also work for the volume pot and sound better, but they are more expensive than linear. Russian made Big Muffs have Russian made pots, usually k linear taper. You can use k audio log taper for the volume pot. Electro-Harmonix used both at various times. They have also used k pots.
If gibson dating an old pot with a new one of the same codes, it is sometimes hard to gibson pots with the same pot file that fit the old knobs. You can sometimes pull the shafts out of the old pots and install them cts the reading ones. Open the new pot this same way and install the old shaft. Be very careful not guitars fact the internal tracks.
