I don't know what the modern ones are like, but the old one I picked up (and flipped) had far too many skeleton pots for my comfort.
Quite. Trimpots are the work of the devil. I go out of my way when designing things to design out the need for them. Electronic, closed case, calibration/alignment is the only way to go to keep your sanity. I've worked on too many things where tweaking pot A alters the thing you have to trim with pot B, and tweaking pot B alters the thing you have to trim with pot A. That kind of iterative insanity is what computers where made for.
I have a 3-tube video projector in need for alignment against a sloped screen. You on?
(just kidding, I've way too many experiences with them to ever consider that particular kind of horrible..)
Actually, the Sony ones are fairly good that way, once you get your heads round them.
One year, someone in Production got the wondrous idea of using a Sony 3 tube projector to project its image on the white sloped top of a grand piano.
The idea was supposed to be that, as the artist played, the camera would pan up to the image on the lid, then slowly morph into the direct video.
To this end, they needed us to hang the projector on an angle from one of the lighting assemblies.
The other bloke volunteered to do it, so I didn't fight him for the honour.
He did a good job, though, but about 3/4 hour of setup for a few minutes on air time was hardly worth it.
Production did things like that---- when John Glenn returned to Space on the Shuttle, they wanted to make a big deal about him seeing Perth's lights like way back when he was in his capsule on the first US orbital flight.
Somebody thought it would be a great idea to put a cameraman & camera part way up the transmitter tower to look down at the city lights.
Everything was primed up for this to happen, till the Grinch, in the person of myself, pointed out that the lights weren't visible from the only landing they could use.
I asked "Why don't you use one of the scenic lookouts, or the chopper?"
I guess that made too much sense, so they forgot the idea!