detented pots: useability vs ease of assembly

[austin]

I'm planning on using detented pots as selector switches, however they don't seem to be available as the pcb-mount type that I would like.  After looking at them, it looks like I can mod the solder lugs by bending them out and snipping off half the lug into a quasi-pcb-mount lead.  However, I'm planning on building several of these and I don't how this will effect the reliabilty... I am sure that it would be much easier (for me) and cleaner to use a pot that is designed for pcb-mount.

The other possibility I've thought of is using regular non-detented pots (pcb-mount) and providing some kind of feed back to the user  when the setting has changed, such as an LED flashing or click from a piezo, taking the place of a detent.  Thoughts?  TIA.

[sir_modulus]

I'm a bit slow, so just explain two things to me, Why don't you use selector switches as selector switches, and why don't you just put pins on the PCB, and connect the pot with a cable? It seems to me that going through all that work (BTW designing a circuit like that is pretty hard) is not worth it when you can just run a small cable.