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I’ve looked at the manual again, and it seems to me you could do a drastic thing and drill a hole through the PCB in the place of the old component where you could put an axis of a different v-resistor through. This could then be connected to the board with wire.

Do you still have the component? You could try repairing it, there’s a youtube video where your last picture came from. edit: in case you didn’t already have the vid.

How do you know my brother?

I live near a large nature reserve (wetland) in the Netherlands, and we have hundreds of bird species there, including cuckoos. In spring and summer we tend to see lots of people with really big binoculars trying to spot all kinds of birds. It always makes me laugh seeing these people raise the binoculars whenever a cuckoo calls, because when you hear them they could be miles away with how the sound carries in the open space.

In the USA the name cuckoo is also used to refer to people who like to do… a thing.

My grandparents had one of those in the 1980s!