So one thing that my SK-5 didn't come with was all the slider caps. There's three sliders, and only one cap. This isn't really unexpected as these caps are friction fit and tend to go missing over the years.
Luckily I have a 3D printer and just barely enough patience to tolerate swearing at FreeCAD for an evening.
Somewhat unluckily, there's not really a good orientation to print these in, since there's a sort of stem that sticks out the bottom and the hollow feature on the inside where the shaft of the slider inserts, and so on. That means I needed to print with supports, and they ended up a little bit stuck to the bottom.
And so I spent a little time under the microscope with a scalpel trimming away the stuck-on bits of support material that were blocking up the holes.
Even though I made them the same shape on top, the sliders they have to fit onto are actually two different shapes as one is a volume slide potentiometer and the other is a slide switch, so I had to model the underside separately for each.
But somehow, miraculously, they actually did fit first try. So that's cool. Once again they are the wrong colour because I'm not going to keep 300 different cans of spray paint around the house just so I can paint replacement knobs.
This is definitely the type of tiny, detailed part that I really should get a resin printer to print, but I'm being lazy about buying one.
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