I can't really offer a lot on this one since it's so far from what we send out with our kits. The Alps Blue potentiometer is only supposed to be mounted to a PC board, which is why it has PC pins. If you want to use it in one of our kits, you'll need to get a little companion PC board off eBay to mount to the pot, then solder the wires to that board. If you don't do that, the wires can just snap off the pot pins randomly.
Big caps in these amps can also pull things around. If those aren't glued down, I would expect them to cause a bit of damage over time.